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UKW’s Q3 NAV update shows its resilience.
William Heathcoat Amory
Updated 30 Oct 2026
Disclosure – Non-Independent Marketing Communication
This is a non-independent marketing communication commissioned by Greencoat UK Wind (UKW). The report has not been prepared in accordance with legal requirements designed to promote the independence of investment research and is not subject to any prohibition on the dealing ahead of the dissemination of investment research.
Greencoat UK Wind (UKW) has released its factsheet for 30/09/2026, together with an update on the performance of the portfolio to that date.
The key highlights are:
Greencoat UK Wind’s (UKW) model has been designed for resilience since the outset when it IPO’d in 2013. Since then, it has continued to deliver a dividend linked to UK inflation. Over the past couple of years, higher interest rates have tested the renewable energy infrastructure sector, and the strength of UKW’s model has seen it come through this difficult period without any scratches. It continues to pay an inflation-linked dividend (which yields 8.9% at the current price of 120p), continues to generate surplus capital, and it continues to repay and refinance its debt.
Ultimately, UKW’s ability to self-generate capital to reinvest is central to its resilience. At its simplest, because the investment returns UKW generates from its portfolio are greater than its dividend, it is able to recycle this surplus capital into accretive acquisitions which extend the life of shareholder’s future cash flows, or buybacks at wide discounts if the opportunity presents itself. At a recent capital markets event (for a video summary, click here) the team reiterated their belief that UKW would have between £900m to £1.4bn of excess capital to reinvest over the five-year period 2027-2031, and outlined the four types of accretive investment opportunities they will be evaluating.
UKW has clearly been a beneficiary of rising power prices – which have continued to rise since the NAV date. The effect on UKW’s revenues has been tempered by the Electricity Generator Levy, which saw 45% (and now 55%, since 01/07/2026) of wholesale revenues above c. £82 per MWh being paid to the UK government. Overall, UKW aims to retain a 50:50 balance of fixed and variable revenues over the long term. The team has a number of different ways to manage the balance of cash flows derived from the portfolio – through acquiring CFD-based assets, corporate PPAs, as well as short-term hedges. A combination of this management of fixed and variable cash flows, as well as accretive recycling of surplus cash, means that the team is confident they can continue to extend shareholder cash flows long into the future.
UKW’s shares have recovered somewhat, and now trade on a c. 12% discount. The team is optimistic that the electrification of the UK economy puts it in a good place to continue to deliver an inflation-linked dividend long into the future. There are political challenges ahead, but as the team continues to note, the consultations on wholesale CFD’s – allowing generators to exchange variable revenues for a fixed-price contract, could result in a win-win for both consumers as well as generators. In our view, UKW’s resilient model means the future is looking increasingly bright for the trust.
Income year to date £11,193.00
Expected income before the end of the year > £2,498.00
There is also income of £408 as a return of capital from VPC .
The SNOWBALL, tks to Mr. Market may equal the 2033 figure but it may be a bridge to far to repeat the figure in 2027, although we will still finish well ahead of the current plan. It will soon be time for a new plan.
The SNOWBALL has a comparator share, the comparison is how much would you receive versus the option using VWRP.
Current income £6,747.00
As the earned dividends in the SNOWBALL are received and re-invested the gap should grow.
The rules for the SNOWBALL.
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Minesh Shah, managing director at the Renewables Infrastructure Group, talks to ii’s Dave Baxter about performance, big risks and opportunities over the next 12 months, the abandoned merger with HICL, and TRIG’s attitude towards consolidation.
28th October 2026 08:44
by Dave Baxter from interactive investor
Minesh Shah, managing director at the
Renewables Infrastructure Grp TRIG
talks to ii’s Dave Baxter about performance, big risks and opportunities over the next 12 months, the abandoned merger with HICL, and TRIG’s attitude towards consolidation.
Dave Baxter, senior fund content specialist at interactive investor: Hello and a very warm welcome back to our Insider Interviews series. I’m Dave Baxter here at ii, and today I’m joined by Minesh Shah, managing director at the Renewables Infrastructure Group. Minesh, many thanks for joining today.
Minesh Shah, managing director at the Renewables Infrastructure Group: Thanks very much for having me.
Dave Baxter: So, let’s talk about performance. The trust has really rebounded pretty strongly this year, but that’s following quite a few difficult years. What’s driven the recovery so far and should we expect more of the same?
Minesh Shah: What’s been one of the key themes for the world in 2026 is the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. It’s really reminded people as to the role renewable energy and energy storage serves in our ecosystem, and that the energy transition is here to stay and needs to accelerate.
It’s also fed through into higher revenues in the sector through higher power prices and higher inflation. So, I think here, a reminder of why people invested in this sector in the first place, i.e. renewable energy will be a large part of our economies going forward, as well as improved underlying performance of the company, have both sought to grow investor confidence.
Dave Baxter: I guess it’s a bizarre way to look at it, but do you have any concern that maybe complacency about the need for energy independence, renewables, that kind of thing, will creep back in if we do see hopefully resolution in the Middle East?
Minesh Shah: With the energy transition, I think people believe in it for different reasons. For some, it’s about energy sovereignty, energy independence. For others, it’s actually about energy affordability, and for some it is about decarbonisation. And in different parts of the political spectrum, each one of those three, the Energy Trilemma, will have different prominence.
But I think what everyone can agree on is that the energy transition is here and it does need to happen, and renewables and energy storage will play a large part in that.
Dave Baxter: What are the big risks and opportunities for the fund in the next 12 months?
Minesh Shah: When we’re in a high rates environment, investors do have a lot of choice as to where they can invest their capital and achieve attractive returns.
In that context, TRIG delivering a 10% dividend yield, I still think benchmarks really well. And the strategy we have to drive returns over and above that with some capital growth, particularly through our development pipeline, where we’re seeing investment opportunities well into the mid-teens in terms of returns, I think will allow TRIG to benchmark well when investors are screening the sector.
Dave Baxter: Investors may well be tempted by the juicy, pretty high dividend yield, but they’ll also be interested to know what’s going to go on with dividend cover and whether those payments can continue to increase. What should they expect?
Minesh Shah: Yes, so dividend cover is at a healthy level, 1.1 times on a net basis. If you add back the repayment of debt capital, it’s well over two times covered. So, we’re very comfortable with that because of where the balance sheet is.
Earlier this year, we set out very clearly our priority with respect to the dividend is to continue to grow dividend cover. And as that grows, then the choice is available to the board as to whether to allocate that additional retained cash towards reinvestment, towards buy back of stock, or towards increasing the dividend. But that’s a capital allocation decision for the board at that time.
Dave Baxter: We’ve seen huge consolidation among investment trusts and in the renewable space. A big story last year was TRIG planned to merge with HICL Infrastructure PLC Ord HICL
but that was eventually abandoned in the face of shareholder opposition. How does TRIG stand now in the consolidation space?
Minesh Shah: What that episode showed is that our board at TRIG is open to ideas as to how to create value for their shareholders. Now that could be being consolidated, it could be being a consolidator, but I think for us, if we look at consolidation, then it’s like any investment activity. Is it aligned to your strategy? Do you like the quality of the assets that you’re looking at? Can there be a meeting of minds over price? And then finally, is the right allocation of capital? And it’s really only once all four of those factors are ticked that you can move forward.
Dave Baxter: I imagine you have to be quite careful about the mix of assets. If you’re simply merging two equity trusts, then one can sell the shares and kind of refresh and so on.
Minesh Shah: Yeah, that’s why I started with ‘is it aligned to our strategy?’ Our strategy is very clear, diversified by technology and geography, a resilient balance sheet, and a sustainable dividend. And while we have that, not everyone in the sector does.
Dave Baxter: Looking beyond technology, what shifts might we expect in the portfolio? Would you, for example, look to change the geographic mix within the fund?
Minesh Shah: Yeah, we’re comfortable with a geographic mix. It’s about 60/40 UK/rest of Europe. And it’s moved between 50/50, and two-thirds/one-third. And we’re comfortable with it being in that space. The benefit of being across all those geographies is we can pivot depending on where we see the best opportunities.
Right now, one of the fantastic investment opportunities is building batteries that are co-located with our solar plants in Spain. Because what we’re seeing in Spain is that there’s so much solar on the system that at lunchtime, the price is near zero because every solar plant is generating. But in Spain, everyone still goes home and has dinner at 8pm when the sun has set, and so the electricity price goes really high.
By building batteries alongside our solar sites, we can take the electricity in the middle of the day and then sell it at dinner, buy from the grid overnight and sell at breakfast. And that’s all we’ll keep doing. Buy at lunch, sell at dinner, buy overnight, sell at breakfast, and we’re seeing potential returns in the teens. So, that’s an example of how we can be flexible with the geographies we have.
But the fundamentals of TRIG will remain. It’s a large operating base, a large base of operational assets. Very much the ones we’re adding to it are at the development construction stage where we have that expertise across the two managers. Infrared with its investment expertise, but actually TRIG is unique in having two managers and sitting alongside us is Rez, who have been in renewables for 40-plus years, effectively among the founding fathers of the sector, and they are expert in taking these projects from development through construction and into good operations.
Dave Baxter: And finally, our usual question, do you have skin the game?
Minesh Shah: Yes, absolutely I do. The other members of my investment committee do. The investment manager at Infrared does, and its parent or son, Life of Canada, also does. And for my part, I hold most of my shares on interactive investor.
Dave Baxter: Minesh, many thanks for your time.
Minesh Shah: Thank you for having me.
Dave Baxter: And thank you for watching. As always, I hope you found it useful and interesting. Thanks and take care.
DIVIDEND DECLARATION
Further to the announcement made by the Company on 16 September 2026 concerning repayment of the largest debt position in the portfolio, the Board has completed its review of alternative means of distributing these proceeds to Shareholders, which was necessary because the Company has insufficient distributable profits to fund a further redemption under the B Share Scheme. The Board has concluded that a special dividend is the most cost-effective and timely route to return these proceeds to Shareholders and accordingly, has declared a special dividend of 3.25 pence per Share, representing substantially all of the £9.3 million of proceeds received from the full repayment of the Essor Group, Inc. senior secured notes. The dividend will be paid on 1 December 2026 to Shareholders on the register as at 6 November 2026. The ex-dividend date is 5 November 2026.
The tax treatment of a dividend will differ from that of a capital return under the B Share Scheme, the effect of which will depend on each Shareholder’s individual circumstances. Shareholders who are in any doubt about their tax position should consult an appropriate independent professional adviser.
The Company has elected to designate part of the special dividend as an interest distribution, thereby “streaming” income from interest-bearing investments into dividends that will be taxed in the hands of Shareholders as interest income.
Cavendish – Renewables: Strong year poised to continue
From a Cavendish equity research note on listed renewable infrastructure and energy funds.
Key points from the published summary are:
In plain English, the headline“Strong year poised to continue” means Cavendish is maintaining a generally positive outlook and believes the favourable conditions that have supported renewable infrastructure valuations and earnings this year are likely to persist into the next reporting period.research-tree
Specifically as an investor for TRIG, UKW, NESF, ORIT, GRP, FSFL, or FGEN .
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For an income-focused UK investor, the most important question is not whether renewable infrastructure funds are “cheap”, but whether the combination of yield + NAV recovery + narrowing discounts can deliver attractive total returns from here.
Based on the Cavendish view that conditions remain supportive for the sector, here’s how I’d look at the main trusts mentioned. The note specifically highlights a stronger year driven by power-price developments and anticipated strength in upcoming NAV reports.research-tree
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For an interest in income-producing investment trusts and renewable assets, I’d currently view TRIG + UKW as the strongest “sleep well at night” combination, with NESF offering perhaps the greatest upside if discounts across the sector continue to close. The Cavendish note’s constructive stance would support that thesis, assuming the stronger operating backdrop persists
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