Rockpool Investments partners with Realise Energy Services
Realise is a technical engineering specialist which maintains over 200 onshore wind turbines across the UK via the provision of remote monitoring, scheduled and unscheduled inspection and maintenance services. Realise also has strong expertise in turbine repowering and installations.
Realise is led by its founders, Sheridan Jenkins and Mark Jennison, who have overseen an impressive growth journey since inception in 2016, including the acquisitions of Wind Technik Nord UK and Optinergy NI. Stuart Black will join the board as Non-Executive Chairman, bringing considerable expertise from senior leadership roles with high-growth, tech enabled business services companies.
The investment will assist Realise to accelerate its impressive growth journey and take advantage of growth opportunities within the UK onshore wind market, whilst maintaining its reputation for best-in-class service quality.
Rockpool’s investment was led by Simon Collins and Toby Hurdle.
“The investment from Rockpool marks another stage in our ambitious growth plans. We are proud of our trusted position in the growing market, aided by our focus on service quality and an excellent team. We look forward to partnering with more turbine owners and are actively seeking acquisition opportunities, aided by this investment.”
Sheridan Jenkins, CEO of Realise
“We are excited by the opportunity to partner with Sheridan, Mark, and the excellent Realise team. There is a huge opportunity in the market as turbine owners look towards partnering with trusted specialists in inspection, monitoring and repowering. Realise is well positioned to capitalise on this.”
Simon Collins, Investment Manager at Rockpool
“I am delighted for Sheridan, Mark and the wider Realise team in securing investment to assist them in their continued evolution. The investment from Rockpool is another example of the value in companies facilitating the use of renewable energy.”
Paul Gleghorne from HNH, the Corporate Finance advisor to management
Rockpool was advised by Stephenson Harwood (Legal), BDO Glasgow (Financial & Tax), CIL (Commercial), and Continuum (Operations). Realise was advised by HNH Corporate Finance, MacRoberts (Legal), and Morris and Young CA (Financial and Tax).
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