Altius Commits to $21 Million Investment in ARR
December 01 2022 - 5:29PM
Altius Minerals Corporation (TSX: ALS; OTCQX:
ATUSF) (“Altius” or the “Corporation”) is pleased to
announce that it has committed to purchase 2,298,700 common
shares in the Altius Renewable Royalties Corp. (“ARR”) financing
announced today.
ARR also announced that its 50% held Great Bay
Renewables II (“Great Bay”) joint venture has completed a US$46
million royalty investment in support of Longroad Energy’s
(“Longroad”) acquisition of the 70 MWac Titan Solar project in
California.
With this participation Altius will maintain its
59% ownership in ARR. The financing, and Altius’s participation, is
subject to customary closing conditions and associated regulatory
filings, and is expected to close on or about December 8, 2022. For
more information on this financing, see ARR’s news release
here.
John Baker, Executive Chairman of Altius
commented “In a short timeframe, ARR’s Great Bay joint venture has
deployed almost US$300 million into the rapidly expanding US
renewable energy sector. The joint venture recently reached the
milestone of becoming cash flow positive and has created a strong
embedded revenue growth profile. The pace of adoption of its
royalty financing model continues to exceed our expectations as
evidenced both by its current portfolio now consisting of 32
projects representing over 6500 MW of wind and solar generation and
also the top-tier nature of its royalty counter-parties. We are
pleased to take this opportunity to allocate further capital
towards ARR as it continues to successfully execute its growth
strategies.”
About Altius
Altius’s strategy is to create per share growth
through a diversified portfolio of royalty assets that relate to
long-life, high margin operations. This strategy further provides
shareholders with exposures that are well aligned with
sustainability-related global growth trends including the
electricity generation transition from fossil fuel to renewables,
transportation electrification, reduced emissions from steelmaking
and increasing agricultural yield requirements. These macro-trends
each hold the potential to cause increased demand for many of
Altius’s commodity exposures including copper, renewable based
electricity, several key battery metals (lithium, nickel and
cobalt), clean iron ore, and potash. In addition, Altius runs a
successful Project Generation business that originates mineral
projects for sale to developers in exchange for equity positions
and royalties. Altius has 47,616,297 common shares issued and
outstanding that are listed on Canada’s Toronto Stock Exchange. It
is included in each of the S&P/TSX Small Cap, the S&P/TSX
Global Mining, and the S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats
indices.
About ARR
ARR is a renewable energy royalty company whose
business is to provide long-term, royalty-level investment capital
to renewable power developers, operators, and originators. ARR
currently has 32 renewable energy royalties representing 735 MW of
renewable power on operating projects and an additional
approximately 6 GW on projects in the development phase, across
several regional power pools in the U.S. The Corporation also
expects future royalties from Great Bay’s investments in Bluestar
Energy Capital and Hodson Energy. The Corporation combines industry
expertise with innovative, partner-focused solutions to further the
growth of the renewable energy sector as it fulfills its critical
role in enabling the global energy transition.
Forward-looking
information
This news release contains forward‐looking
information. The statements are based on reasonable assumptions and
expectations of management and Altius provides no assurance that
actual events will meet management's expectations. In certain
cases, forward‐looking information may be identified by such terms
as "anticipates", "believes", "could", "estimates", "expects",
"may", "shall", "will", or "would". Although Altius believes the
expectations expressed in such forward‐looking statements are based
on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of
future performance and actual results or developments may differ
materially from those projected. Readers should not place undue
reliance on forward-looking information. Altius does not undertake
to update any forward-looking information contained herein except
in accordance with securities regulation.
For further information, please
contact:
Flora WoodVP, Investor Relations &
Sustainability Email:
Fwood@altiusminerals.comTel: 1.877.576.2209
Direct: 1.416.346.9020 |
Ben LewisChief Financial
OfficerEmail:
Blewis@altiusminerals.comTel: 1.877.576.2209 |
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