8/05/2009

Ventus Funds reach £50m for investment in UK renewable energy projects

13th July 2009

Low carbon investor Climate Change Capital’s Ventus Funds have raised a further £13.85m of capital for investment in the UK renewable energy sector.

The Ventus Funds have now raised over £50m since their launch in 2005.

The Ventus Funds are specialist venture capital trusts focused exclusively on making investments in the small to medium sized UK onshore renewable energy sector and are the largest group of funds of their kind. Since 2005 the Ventus Funds have invested £30m in over 25 companies, contributing to the delivery over 50MW of new generating capacity.

In November of last year, the Ventus Funds, backed a scheme to enable Belfast’s major landfill site to produce electricity.

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