Scout Clean Energy (Scout) has announced the closing of a back-leverage financing transaction for the company’s 130 MW Bitter Ridge Wind Farm in Jay County, Indiana, USA. The project has been in operation since 2020.The deal marks the initial step in Scout’s capital recycling strategy, aimed at unlocking capital in the company’s operating projects to fund multiple new projects across Scout’s 19 GW wind, solar, and storage pipeline in the USA. The project has an additional tax incentive agreement in place with Jay County, which resulted in $1.56 million in economic development payments by Bitter Ridge for the benefit of several local community initiatives. It is estimated that the county will receive more than $18 million in tax revenues over the expected life of the project, with over half going directly to Jay County Schools.
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