Bluefield Solar Income Fund reports strong quarter as hedging strategy counters weaker prices
May 15, 2024 at 07:16 am
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Bluefield Partners managing partner James Armstrong discusses the Bluefield Solar Income Fund's financial performance with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion.
In the quarter to 31 March, 2024, the Fund showed resilience, with NAV dropping only slightly due to effective power hedging strategies against fluctuating power prices. The income strategy, which has been consistent since its IPO 11 years ago, includes a significant percentage of power sales hedged for 2024 and 2025, maintaining an income product with a prospective yield of over 8% for shareholders.
Armstrong highlighted the Fund's shareholder strategies, including a share buyback program, which bought back 2.45 million shares in March and continues towards a target of £20 million. Despite a 20% discount to net asset value, the Fund reported the strongest financial performance in over a decade, attributed to strategic management and market conditions.
Additionally, Armstrong detailed a strategic partnership with GLIL Infrastructure, signaling a long-term commitment to infrastructure investments and asset management aimed at boosting liquidity and reducing company debt.
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Bluefield Solar Income Fund Limited is a Guernsey-based closed-ended investment company focused on the acquisition and long-term management of a diversified portfolio of low carbon assets in the United Kingdom. The investment objective of the Company is to provide shareholders with an attractive return, principally in the form of quarterly income distributions, by being invested primarily in solar energy assets located in the United Kingdom. It primarily targets utility scale solar assets and portfolios on greenfield, industrial and/or commercial sites. The Company has invested in a diverse group of solar photovoltaic assets across the United Kingdom. There are approximately 200 assets under operation, such as large agriculturally situated solar farms, with a small number (by energy capacity) of industrial and commercial sites. It may also invest a minority of its share capital in wind, hydro and energy storage assets. The Company's investment adviser is Bluefield Partners LLP.