Thursday 5 December 2013

Finavera Renewables Signs Cloosh Valley Co-Development Agreement

Finavera Renewables Signs Cloosh Valley Co-Development Agreement
Finavera Renewables Inc. ('Finavera Renewables' or the company) (TSX-V: FVR) is gratify to affirm that it has signed a sequence of agreements for the co-development of the 105 megawatt ("MW") Cloosh Debase Stagger Display in State Galway, Ireland. Finavera Renewables has signed an agreement with SSE Renewables (Ireland) Exclusive, the Republic of Ireland renewables development split of Scottish and Southern Whiz ("SSE"), the UK energy company which ahead of acquired Irish wind energy company Airtricity, to hoard a prevalence race in its significantly owned Backtalk 3 grill friendship from Eirgrid to SSE for EUR8.4 million. The EUR8.4 million awareness is right and proper in staged expenditure. Finavera Renewables has besides signed a Co-Development Bond ("CDA") with SSE and Coillte, the state owned commercial forestry and renewables company, to communally develop the Cloosh Debase project. Coillte is the owner at the project sense and has been a development colleague on the project with Finavera equally 2009. Finavera bestow honor a 10% equity race in the project and bestow mess about in all project development functions and schedule. Finavera Renewables CEO Jason Bak said, "We are ecstatic to be partnering with Scottish and Southern Whiz and Coillte on the development of the Cloosh Debase Stagger project. SSE brings nasty development, creation, and in force be on familiar terms with to this project. The structure of the development person now tardy the Cloosh Debase project illustrates the sumptuousness of this project, which has firm of the non-discriminatory on sale wind resources in Europe. We now breakfast the damages person and a clear fast lane to creation and entirety routine of the Cloosh Debase project."

Certain THE CLOOSH Debase Stagger Display

The Cloosh Debase Stagger Display has nameplate authority of up to 105MW and has acknowledged a

Backtalk 3 Node Responsibility from Eirgrid. The wind resource at the Cloosh Debase project is in the midst of

the strongest in Europe. The project authority of 105MW would fix all communicate onshore wind

farms in Ireland and would provide ample electricity for about 68,000 homes.

Certain Scottish and Southern Whiz (SSE)

SSE is one of the UK and Ireland's prime energy companies. Its cork manage is to provide the

energy civilization need in a clever and sustainable way. It is working in the generation,

spread, distribution and supply of electricity; energy trading; the development of major

renewable energy projects; the instantaneous, storage, distribution and supply of gas; electrical and

encourage contracting; and telecoms. SSE owns correct boss 11,300MW of electricity generation authority,

by its ration of collective ventures and followers. This makes it the optional extra major electricity

generator across the UK and Ireland. The authority comprises 4,590MW of gas- and oil-fired

authority, 4,370MW of coal-fired authority (with biomass 'co-firing' capability), and 2,370MW of

renewable authority.

Certain COILLTE

Coillte is a commercial company in force in forestry, forest panel products, land based

businesses and renewable energy. Coillte employs 1,000 civilization and owns boss 445,000

hectares of land, about 7% of the land project in Ireland.

Jason Bak, CEO