Innergex expands in France

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INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY $14.73 (Toronto symbol INE; Shares outstanding: 108.4 million; Market cap: $1.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Divd. yield 4.5%; www.innergex.com) has paid $24.2 million for 69.55% of two wind power plants in France. The new facilities have 43 megawatts of generating power and should contribute $14.5 million to Innergex’s annual revenue. To put that in perspective, the company’s current plants have a capacity of 1,063 megawatts. Innergex’s annual revenue is over $300 million. To cut risk, the company makes sure that power plants it builds or buys all have long-term power-purchase contracts in place. The two French plants, located in the Champagne-Ardennes region, about 500 kilometres east of Paris, will sell all of their output under power purchase agreements (with a portion adjusted for inflation) with Electricite de France (EDF); it’s an electric power utility largely owned by the French government. Innergex Renewable Energy is a buy. buy…