Whitehelm Capital has acquired a significant stake in Kvitebjørn Varme AS, the owner and operator of the district heating network in the city of Tromsø, the largest urban area in Norway inside the Arctic Circle.
The 49% equity interest was acquired from Kvitebjørn Energi AS, an energy company controlled by the Norwegian investment group Daimyo, that will remain a shareholder in the company. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Kvitebjørn Varme is Whitehelm Capital’s third investment in the Nordic region, following the acquisition of SAE, an energy from waste business in Sarpsborg, Norway, and Storrun, an onshore wind farm in Sweden.
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