Annual Results

February 2022

For Professional Investors Only

2021 Highlights

Power generation 20% below budget

2,933GWh

Power generation

High power prices, strong cash generation and high dividend cover

£256.8m / 1.9x

Net cash generation / dividend cover

Stable inflation linked revenue stream and RPI linked dividend

£148.0m / 7.18p per share

Dividends declared with respect to the period

Investment portfolio grew to 43 wind farms with £570m invested in 2021

1,422MW

Generating capacity

Outstanding commitments

306MW

Committed investment

GAV increased by 21%

£4,043.7m (from £3,329.9m)

Gross Asset Value

Two successful and large equity raises

£648m

Equity raised

NAV increased to £3.1 billion and 133.5p per share, an increase of 11.3p

£3,093.7m (from £2,229.9m)

Net Asset Value

NAV increased on a real basis since listing

34.4% v RPI of 27.7%

Market cap increased to £3.3 billion

£3,257.8m

Market capitalisation

Gearing of £950m

23% / 2.6%

Gearing (percentage of GAV) / Average cost

The leading UK listed renewable infrastructure fund, invested in UK wind farms

Note: all numbers to or at 31 December 2021

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Simple Model

Equity

Total

Debt

reinvestment

£271.9m

6-43 wind

Generating capacity increased

farms

from 127 to 1,422MW since IPO

14.4TWh

Total power produced

£878.4m

Total cash generated

£606.5m Total dividends paid or declared

"6p dividend, increasing with RPI inflation and real NAV preservation''

Note: from IPO to 31 December 2021

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Wind Resource and Generation

UK average wind speed (m/s)(1)

Annual average

10 year average

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

2013(2)

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

Wind Speed:

+ 3%

- 2%

+ 5%

- 6%

- 1%

- 4%

- 8%

+ 2%

- 12%

Production:

+ 8%

- 3%

+ 8%

- 6%

0%

- 6%

- 11%

- 3%

- 20%

Notes: (1) source: www.gov.uk/government/statistics; (2) 27 March to 31 December 2013;

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Track Record of Consistent Delivery

Period

Production

Cash Generation

Dividend(1)

Dividend Cover(2)

RPI

NAV Growth

2013(3)

292GWh

£21.6m

£14.2m (4.50p)

1.8x

1.9%

2.5%

2014

565GWh

£32.4m

£24.8m (6.16p)

1.6x

1.6%

2.5%

2015

799GWh

£48.3m

£29.6m (6.26p)

1.7x

1.2%

0.5%

2016

978GWh

£49.0m

£38.8m (6.34p)

1.4x

2.5%

4.0%

2017

1,457GWh

£80.1m

£57.3m (6.49p)

1.5x

4.1%

2.4%

2018

2,003GWh

£117.3m

£74.8m (6.76p)

1.6x

2.7%

10.8%

2019

2,385GWh

£127.7m

£100.4m (6.94p)

1.4x

2.2%

-1.4%

2020

2,952MWh

£145.2m

£118.7m (7.10p)

1.3x

1.2%

0.6%

2021

2,933MWh

£256.8m

£148.0m (7.18p)

1.9x

7.5%

9.4%

Secure and stable dividend cover as a result of low leverage

and cash generative nature of operational wind farms

Notes: (1) dividends declared with respect to the period; (2) dividend cover as reported; (3) 27 March to 31 December 2013

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