The energy transition is more than delivering clean energy infrastructure. Its long-term success depends on how projects connect with the places and people around them. As renewable energy grows in scale, understanding local priorities, managing impacts responsibly and creating opportunities for shared value will be increasingly important to building resilient projects and a transition that works for communities as well as the wider energy system.

At NextEnergy Group, guided by our values, we aim to build trusted relationships with the communities around our assets and make community considerations an integral part of responsible development, investment and asset management. Our new Community Impact Strategy brings this ambition into a more consistent Group-wide approach, helping us manage risk, strengthen resilience and support long-term value creation across our activities and geographies.

NextEnergy Group, the international energy transition investment specialist, has appointed Chris Jewel-Clark as its new Chief Financial Officer.

Chris joins the business from Legal & General Asset Management, where he most recently served as Chief Capital and Portfolio Officer. He brings more than 20 years’ experience across private markets, alternative asset management, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital allocation and business transformation.

NextEnergy Group is on a mission to generate a more sustainable future by leading the transition to clean energy. In November 2025, the Group published a Climate Strategy, supported by NextEnergy Capital’s Climate Transition Plan. These two strategic documents are the roadmap for our business to meet with, or exceed, the latest and most ambitious climate science recommendations. The ultimate aim is to contribute to achieving the goals and targets of the Paris Agreement.

As part of the Strategy, the Group is committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions. Becoming carbon neutral at the Group level1 is one of the first steps in our net zero ambition. Since 2022, we have calculated the Group’s annual Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions2 with the support of an independent third-party advisor.

For Sunprime, this is the first building block of Sophocles, the investment plan in photovoltaics and battery energy storage systems financed by the EIB and Natixis for €507 million, which targets 500 MWp by June 2027.

For Starlight, the transaction completes the transfer of the remaining assets from an Italian platform of more than 300 MW developed over the past six years. Starlight continues to operate in Italy with a development pipeline of approximately 1.2 GW.

NextEnergy Capital (“NEC”), a leading global renewables manager specialising in the solar and energy storage infrastructure sector, is pleased to announce it has secured total commitments of $974 million to NEC’s international strategy, comprised of the total commitments received following the final close of NextPower V as well as sizeable commitments for co-investments in the NextPower V strategy (the “Strategy”).