Malcy comments on CHAR/Etana19 Mar 2025 09:17
A good view today from Chariot with regard to its US$75m financing from Standard Bank and Norfund into its Etana business, its South African electricity trading joint venture, making it a seriously substantial company in its own right and becoming an electricity utility with funding by these ‘significant’ institutions meaning it is now fully funded.
Going forward the company gets ‘balance sheet support, combined with an equity investment which will unlock further generation projects, fund rapid, scalable growth and lead to material revenues from both Etana and potential future direct participation in generation projects’.
The way that the deal is structured with the guarantee financing investment alongside equity cash puts Chariot in a very strong position and it also creates a look through valuation for Etana which suggests it is higher than the current market cap. As CEO Adonis Pouroulis states, ‘this clearly endorses the value that we see within the electricity trading platform which is looking to provide much needed long term, cleaner and competitive energy across South Africa’.