Weekly renewables M&A round-up (Oct 21-25)

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October 28 (Renewables Now) - Renewables Now covered M&A stories related to Siemens Gamesa, Senvion, Ørsted and others last week. Below is the full list of deals:

-- Liquidation starts at Lyon solar-plus-storage units

Three companies part of Australia’s Lyon Group, a solar and energy storage project developer, have been put in liquidation and a sale process for their solar-plus-storage projects has been started.

-- Siemens Gamesa to pay EUR 200m for Senvion assets in Europe

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA (BME:SGRE) has agreed to buy 8.9 GW of onshore wind service assets in Europe, a plant in Portugal and intellectual property from struggling wind turbine maker Senvion SE (ETR:SEN) in a EUR-200-million deal.

-- Acciona inks deal with Tenaska to acquire 4 GW of US solar, storage

Spanish group Acciona SA (BME:ANA) has signed an agreement with Omaha, Nebraska-based energy company Tenaska to acquire 3,000 MW of utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) projects and a 1-GW battery storage development portfolio across the US.

-- Gresham House's storage fund targets 49-MW acquisition

Gresham House Energy Storage Fund Plc (LON:GRID) has signed a conditional agreement to buy a 49-MW battery storage project in the UK for an undisclosed sum.

-- Actis looking to sell Brazilian wind co Echoenergia - report

Brazilian energy company Echoenergia, holder of a 973-MW wind power portfolio, has been marked for sale by private equity firm Actis, local newspaper Valor Economico reported.

-- Poland's PGE talks offshore wind with Ørsted

Polish power group PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna SA (WSE:PGE) will be discussing the joint development of 2.5 GW of offshore wind projects in the Baltic Sea with Ørsted A/S (CPH:ORSTED).

The Danish offshore wind major said it will negotiate the purchase from PGE of 50% stakes in each of two special purpose vehicles (SPVs).

-- Ibedrola to acquire 118 MW of Spanish wind from Siemens Gamesa

Iberdrola SA (BME:IBE) has reached an agreement to purchase three wind farms in Spain totalling 117.8 MW from turbine maker Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA (BME:SGRE).

-- Floating wind co Eolfi draws investment interest - report

The main shareholder of French floating wind power specialist Eolfi SA is looking for bids from new investors in the business, Bloomberg reports, quoting people familiar with the matter.

-- TRIG buys 25-MW wind farm in Scotland

The Renewables Infrastructure Group Ltd (LON:TRIG) has acquired the 25-MW Little Raith wind farm in Scotland after purchasing the entire stake in the operating plant from local developer Kennedy Renewables.

-- Encavis AM buys 18-MW French wind farm on behalf of special fund

Encavis Asset Management AG, also known as Encavis AM, said that a “well-known” insurer had mandated the company as the investment advisor for a special fund that will pursue solar and wind assets with a target volume in the three-digit million Euro range.

-- DESRI buys 180 MW of First Solar projects in Utah

D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) has acquired the Cove Mountain and Cove Mountain 2 projects in Utah, with a combined capacity of 180 MW, from First Solar Inc (NASDAQ:FSLR), the latter announced.

-- Greencoat Capital to buy 40-MW UK biomass plant from CIP

Specialist asset manager Greencoat Capital LLP has agreed to acquire on behalf of several pension fund clients the owner of a 40-MW biomass power plant in the UK.

-- Statkraft buys 1 GW of wind, solar projects in Brazil and Ireland

In early October, Norwegian state-owned energy company Statkraft AS signed deals to acquire almost a gigawatt of solar and onshore wind projects in two strategic markets -- Ireland and Brazil.

-- Romania's anti-trust body clears takeover of Vestas wind farms by Ingka Group

Romania's competition authority said it has cleared the recent takeover of an 80% stake in seven Romanian wind farms from Danish wind turbine maker Vestas by Ingka Group, the parent company of Swedish furniture retailer IKEA.

-- Sofdesk raises USD 5.7m and buys solar software firm

Montreal-based solar and roofing business accelerator Sofdesk Inc has closed a USD-5.7-million funding round, days after acquiring solar software firm Energy Periscope.

-- RWE buys 1.5-GW-plus offshore wind pipeline in Poland

The renewables unit of German energy group RWE AG (ETR:RWE) has acquired a pipeline of up to four Polish offshore wind projects with a total potential capacity of more than 1.5 GW.

-- Ocean Power Technologies to sell USD 10m in shares to Aspire Capital Fund

US institutional investor Aspire Capital Fund LLC has agreed to buy up to USD 10 million of the common stock of Ocean Power Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:OPTT), or OPT, over a period of 30 months.