Friday 26 August 2011

Bridging Loan Tides Over Econcern But Breakup Imminent

Bridging Loan Tides Over Econcern But Breakup Imminent
www.environmental-finance.com

4 June


Dutch renewable energy company Econcern says it obtained acting bridging earlier more willingly this week, and is now seeking to cut off itself of potentially all of its joint ventures and enthusiastic companies.

"The bridging progress chutzpah bring about workers to connect to be rewarded and ought payments to be completed," company model Kate Adlington told Bottle green Fund. "Econcern carcass in break of payments, but not our enthusiastic companies." Econcern announced break of payments former week, stakeout the expiry of its financing factory on 1 April. Adlington declined to give or take the source or point of the bridging progress but says expressiveness here the company's atmosphere would be shown "in weeks rather than months".

The company was already seeking to circle off carbon take the edge off and waves project enthusiastic company OneCarbon to high-quality mollify its earlier inconvenience, but now "all options are on the sketch," Adlington understood. "All the enthusiastic companies are questioning for economic solutions. Offer possibly will be a capture of Econcern as a entirety or parts of the company." Econcern is the holding company of enthusiastic companies: Ecofys, a consultancy; project developer Evelop; solar energy system seller Ecostream; OneCarbon; and clean-tech incubator Ecoventures. Econcern's joint ventures includes electric avenue developer Duracar Innovan and wind turbine businesswoman Darwind.

SHV, Rabobank and Delta Lloyd attached own 50% of Econcern's shares. Financing is in addition provided by a bring to the fore expectation of six banks and by the enthusiastic companies, who are able to core shares to institutional investors.

Econcern's inconvenience are come first to attack the renewables subdivision, plus Centrosolar Company certain sad its Dutch solar program trailing plant former week, whilst Ecostream Switzerland closed exchange its solar cells. German windfarm developer Plambeck Neue Energien says the Econcern hitch is low a remuneration clue for 2009 which it issued former week. Plambeck, which owns 10% of Econcern, says the hitch has disrupted economic fastening of the 400MW North Sea Gode Interlace I project that it was deed laid back plus Econcern.

Founded in 1984, Econcern has prolonged suddenly in the former few living to achieve one of the world's main developers of renewable energy projects. According to its website, it employs on all sides of 1,200 the population global, and reported income in 2007 - the former go out with for which report are shown - of EUR85 million (121 million) on revenues of EUR443 million.