UGE International

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UGE International

Industry	Renewable energy solutions
Founded	2008
Headquarters	New York, NY, New York , United States
Number of locations	Toronto, Cebu
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Nick Blitterswyk, CEO
Products	Solar panels, energy storage, power management systems, remote monitoring systems
Services	Commercial solar energy projects
Number of employees	100–150
Website	www.ugei.com

UGE International CEO and founder at a conference

UGE International is a worldwide distributed solar energy company, founded in 2008, with headquarters in New York City and Toronto, and a local office in the Philippines. As of 2021, the company has installed 500MW of solar energy worldwide and completed more than 700 projects.^[1]

Services

The company develops, owns, and operates community and commercial solar & energy storage projects. Building owners, landowners, and institutional and commercial entities serve as site hosts for the solar projects. Residential and commercial off-takers subscribe to receive electricity from the solar projects.^[2] UGEngineering, a subsidiary of UGE International, provides engineering consulting services to clients in the United States and abroad.^[3]

Financial - TSX listing

In 2014 the company was publicly listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX:UGE.V).^[4][5] The Haywood Securities initiated research coverage on the company in November 2017, setting a target share price of $1^[6] and in June 2018, the SeeThru Equity initiated coverage with a price target of C$1.02 / $0.78.

Capitalization timeline

In August 2013, the company raises $20m fund from Tamra-Tacoma Capital Partners (now Energent L.P.) to provide financing for uge's fast-growing telecoms segment^[7] and secured $5M investment from Energine in April 2014.^[8] In March 2015, the company closed its non-brokered private placement of units (the "Units") at $1.50 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of CAD 1,784,751.^[9] The company acquire all of the issued and outstanding equity shares of Endura Energy Project Corp. In February 2016.^[10]

In 2017, UGE signed a $15 million contract with Peterborough Utilities that become one of the largest contracts in their history.^[11] The company also signed an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters the same year according to which the underwriters agreed to purchase three million units from the company at 60 cents per unit on a bought deal private placement basis for aggregate gross proceeds of $1.8-million.^[12]

References

1. "UGE Announces Q2 2021 Project Updates, Surpasses 500MW in Experience". Wall Street Journal.
2. "UGE USA".
3. "UGEngineering".
4. "UGE International Ltd". TSX Inc .
5. "UGE International Ltd. (UGE.V)". Yahoo Finance.
6. "UGE International Ltd. (UGE-V, C$0.46)" (PDF). Haywood Securities Inc.
7. "Urban Green Energy Secures 20M Investment". UGE.
8. "Urban Green Energy Secures 5M Investment Ahead of Public Listing". New Energy World Network.
9. "UGE International Ltd. Announces Increase in Size and Closing of Private Placement". Market Wired.
10. "UGE Announces Closing of Short Form Prospectus Offering". UGE International Ltd.
11. "UGE to develop 15 PV projects in Ontario". PV Tech.
12. "UGE Int'l arranges $1.8-million private placement". Stockwatch.