New Funding Facility

For immediate release 4 November 2014

Energy Assets Group plc

("Energy Assets" or the "Group")

New Funding Facility

Energy Assets Group plc (LSE: EAS.L), the largest independent provider of industrial and commercial (I&C) gas metering services in the UK1, is pleased to announce a new £5m revolving credit facility with Santander to provide additional finance to support the continued growth of the business. 

Drawdowns will be available at any time over a three year period and interest will be charged at competitive market rates. Capital repayments will be made in each of the three years with a bullet repayment at the end of the period.

When added to existing facilities with other banking partners Lombard North Central and Bank of Scotland, this new facility will provide the Group with available facilities and cash at bank totalling £44m.

Chief Executive of Energy Assets, Phil Bellamy-Lee said:

"I am delighted to welcome Santander as a new funding partner. By securing this new facility we are now in an even stronger position to implement our strategy of growing the business organically and making further acquisitions to maximise shareholder value as suitable opportunities arise. 

We look forward to working with Santander and further strengthening this relationship into the future."

Graham Silcock, Regional Director at Santander Corporate & Commercial, said:

"We are delighted to support the continued growth of the Energy Assets Group through this new credit facility. Santander is committed to helping businesses prosper and we look forward to working closely with Energy Assets as a key funding partner."

Enquiries

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 1 By number of meters owned and managed

Notes to Editors:

Energy Assets provides metering and related services in the I&C segment of the UK utility market and is the largest independent provider of I&C gas metering services in the UK, by number of assets owned and managed. The Group offers utility suppliers and end-user consumers of energy a broad spectrum of metering services from the provision and management of new and replacement meters through its Meter Asset Management (MAM)/Meter Operator (MOP) divisions to the procurement and project management of related utility infrastructure works and the collection and provision of energy consumption data through the Group's Siteworks and Automated Meter Reading (AMR) divisions.

Energy Assets is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.