ALLETE Acquisition & Valuation

EVN AG is an Austrian-based utilities company that generates and distributes electricity and operates in natural gas, waste management, water supply, wastewater treatment and thermal waste utilization service. Evn operates in Austria, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, and Germany. The company's operations are divided into segments that include Energy, Generation, Networks, South East Europe, Environment and All Other Segments, out of which South East Europe generates maximum revenue. The company earns majority revenue from Austria.

Black Hills Corp is a U.S.-based energy company that operates through its Electric Utilities and Gas Utilities segment. These segments operate in states in the Midwest and mountain regions in the U.S. The company's customers include residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal consumers. These customers are residential. Black Hills derives the majority of its revenue from its utility business group, specifically from gas utilities.

Cia Energetica DE Minas Gerais - Cemig, formerly Energy Company of Minas Gerais, is a Brazilian power company that generates, transmits, and distributes electricity. As one of the power companies in Brazil, the firm operates across Brazilian states and Chile. The company has various subsidiaries and operates chiefly through its generation, transmission, distribution, and gas segments. The majority of the company's revenue is derived from electricity sales to consumers. The company generates power through hydroelectric resources and, secondarily, through thermal and wind resources.

Kyushu Electric Power Co Inc is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in the electric power business. Its operating segments include ICT Service Business, Other Energy Service Business, Overseas Business, Power Generation and Sales Business, Power Transmission and Distribution Business, Urban Development Business, and Others. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Power generation and sales business segment, whose main business is the power generation and retail electricity business in Japan.

Shenergy Co Ltd is engaged in the electric power and energy industry in China. Its main business includes the investment, construction, operation, and management of electric power, petroleum, and natural gas. The company has invested in and completed electric power projects, which are distributed in various fields such as thermal power, natural gas power, hydropower, and nuclear power.

Guangdong Investment Ltd is engaged in investment holding. The segments of the company include Water resources, Property investment, Department store operation, Electric power generation, Hotel operation and management, Road and bridge segment, and Others segment. The company derives its revenue from the Water resources segment that engages in water distribution, sewage treatment, and construction of water supply and sewage treatment infrastructure for customers in Mainland China and Hong Kong.

Torrent Power Ltd is an Indian utility company engaged in the business of power generation, transmission, and distribution. Both by itself and through its subsidiaries, Torrent Power operates a portfolio of gas, combined cycle, coal, wind, and solar power plants. The group's reportable segments are: Generation, Transmission and Distribution, and Renewables. The majority of its revenue is generated from the Transmission and Distribution segment, which comprises transmission and distribution business (licensed and franchisee) and related ancillary services. The Generation segment includes the generation of power from thermal sources (gas and coal) and trading of Regassified Liquified Natural Gas, and the Renewables segment includes generation of power from renewable energy sources.

ENN Energy Holdings is primarily engaged in distributing and retailing natural gas. By year-end 2024, ENN owned 261 city gas projects in China, with annual gas sales volume of 33.65 billion cubic meters. Meanwhile, the aggregate number of connected piped gas residential households reached 31.38 million, with an average gas penetration rate of 65.8%. ENN Energy also has ventured into integrated energy business, with 356 projects in operation.

HK Electric Investments and HK Electric Investments Ltd is a fixed single investment trust in Hong Kong with a focus on the power industry. The company is a vertically integrated power utility and its operations comprise the generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity to Hong Kong Island and Lamma Island. The company have one reporting segment which is the generation and supply of electricity to Hong Kong Island and Lamma Island.

Capital Power Corp is a North American power producer whose principal activities are developing, acquiring, and operating power plants. Through its subsidiary, Capital Power owns and operates a portfolio of natural gas, coal, wind, solar, and solid fuel energy generating facilities. These are located throughout Western and Central Canada and the U.S. Capital Power's natural gas and coal facilities, specifically its Genesee and Shepard sites, account for its electric capacity and cash flow production. The company generates the vast majority of its revenue from sale of electricity and natural gas. The company's customers include a variety of industrial and commercial consumers, independent transmission system operators, and government-owned entities.

Mercury NZ (formerly Mighty River Power) generates more than 15% of New Zealand's electricity and is one of the four major electricity generators and suppliers in the country. All electricity is generated from renewable sources, which makes it one of the lowest-cost providers of electricity. The company operates nine hydro stations and five geothermal power plants in the North Island and some wind farms. Mercury sells electricity to residential and commercial customers and has the largest share of the key Auckland market.

Aboitiz Power Corp is an electric utility company operating in the Philippines of which Aboitiz Equity Ventures is the majority shareholder. Through its subsidiaries, Aboitiz Power generates and distributes electricity. The company controls a portfolio of geothermal, hydroelectric, solar, wind, oil-fired, and coal-fired power plants. The company's sites, meanwhile, are mainly hydroelectric. The vast majority of the company's income is derived from its power generation business. Almost all sales are made through bilateral contracts with private utilities, the country's state-owned power provider, and industrial and commercial customers.

NorthWestern Energy Group Inc provides electricity and natural gas services in the Upper Midwest and Northwest of the U.S. in the states of Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Yellowstone National Park. The company's primary segments include Electric, which includes the generation, purchase, transmission, and distribution of electricity, and Natural Gas, which includes the production, purchase, transmission, storage, and distribution of natural gas. It uses thermal, wind, hydro, or renewable energy in varying quantities, depending on the location of the facilities, to generate power. The company derives the majority of its revenue from the Electric segment.

Shanghai Electric Power Co Ltd is a China-based energy company. It is engaged in the production and sale of electricity and thermal power. It is a modern energy company integrating high-parameter and large-capacity coal-fired power, gas-fired power, wind power, solar power, and distributed energy supply, and others.

EGPE Solar is a subsidiary of Endesa, part of the Enel Group, that owns a 2 GW portfolio of operational solar photovoltaic assets spread across 48 projects in Spain. The portfolio operates under 15-year power purchase agreements, and the company plans to hybridize its solar sites with up to 0.5 GW of battery energy storage. A related entity, EGPE Solar 2, holds an additional 446 MW of photovoltaic assets.

Rabigh Arabian Water & Electricity Company delivers electricity, steam, and desalinated water utilities to the Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical in Saudi Arabia.

Energie Steiermark is one of Austria's largest regional energy distribution and services companies, based in the province of Styria. It operates a 31,300-kilometre electricity grid and a 4,200-kilometre gas network, supplies district heating, and generates power from hydro, wind, solar and biomass, with activities extending into Slovenia, the Czech Republic, France and Germany. Revenue comes from regulated network tariffs, energy sales and energy services.

Valar Atomics is a nuclear energy company based in El Segundo, California, that develops small high-temperature gas-cooled reactors. It was founded in 2023 by Isaiah Taylor. The reactors use helium coolant and TRISO fuel and are designed to be built in series on a production line and deployed at industrial sites, to supply heat and power for data centres, heavy industry and clean hydrocarbon fuel production independent of the electricity grid. The company has built test reactors, including its Ward Zero prototype, and was selected by the US Department of Energy to take a reactor critical. It sells to industrial and data centre operators and government customers, and it is financed by venture equity and credit facilities.