Founded in 2011, ReNew Power is one of India's leading renewable energy developer and operator with clean energy capacity across the wind, utility-scale solar and rooftop solar power-producing assets
ReNew has operational and under-construction capacity of 3500 MW in 16 states. Of this, 1600 MW is from wind and 1100 is from solar projects, all commissioned.
L&T Financial Services acted as the underwriter for the multi-issuer cross-collateralised rupee bond
The company has planned to add 1 GW capacity this fiscal
Sumant Sinha promoted ReNew Power Ventures Pvt. Ltd doubled its power generation capacity in a single year's time to cross 2000 MW. To achieve the target, it made investment worth Rs 6700 crore (approximately USD 1 billion) to add 430 MW of solar and 626 MW of wind capacity.Over the last six years, the company has increased its capacity multifold - starting from 200 MW in FY 2011-2012 to 2GW as on March 31, 2017, said the company in a public statement. "This milestone acquires special significance due to several reasons - our growth is organic, the capacity has doubled on a significant base of 1 GW, and we are committed to focus on high quality projects to create positive returns for our stakeholders," said Sumant Sinha, Chairman and CEO, ReNew Power. ReNew Power was launched in 2011 by Sumant Sinha with Goldman Sachs. It recently has secured long-term debt financing of $390 million from Asian Development Bank (ADB) and LEAP. Also, Japanese power sector major JERA recently picked up .
The state govt is committed to providing good quality clean power, says G. Jagadish Reddy
Marking entry of Japanese strategic investors, deal takes ReNew's value to $2 bn
ReNew bond is rated B+, which is considered speculative grade
Proceeds from this loan will be utilised to develop and expand capacities by around 709 Mw
To maintain its share of 10% green capacity by 2020