1 November 2024
LEI: 213800B81BFJKWM2JV13
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust plc
("ORIT" or the "Company")
Transaction in Own Shares
The Company announces that in accordance with the authority granted at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on 19 June 2024, it purchased on 31 October 2024, 500,000 ordinary shares of one pence each in the capital of the Company ("Ordinary Shares") at an average price of 78.4 pence per share. These shares will be held by the Company in treasury.
Following this transaction, the Company holds 5,966,147 Ordinary Shares in treasury and has 564,927,536 Ordinary Shares in issue, including those in treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company is 558,961,389 and accordingly that figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for calculations of interests in the Company's voting rights in accordance with the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Details of this transaction are as follows:
| Date of purchase: | 31/10/2024 |
| Aggregate number of Ordinary Shares purchased: | 500,000 |
| Lowest price paid per share (GBp): | 78.4 |
| Highest price paid per share (GBp): | 78.4 |
| Volume weighted average price paid per share (GBp): | 78.4 |
| Number of Ordinary Shares purchased | Transaction price (GBp) | Trading Venue |
| 300,000 | 78.4 | XLON |
| 200,000 | 78.4 | XLON |
For further information please contact:
| Octopus Energy Generation (Investment Manager) Chris Gaydon, David Bird
| Via Buchanan |
| Peel Hunt (Broker) Liz Yong, Luke Simpson, Huw Jeremy (Investment Banking) Alex Howe, Chris Bunstead, Ed Welsby, Richard Harris, Michael Bateman (Sales)
| 020 7418 8900 |
| Buchanan (Financial PR) Charles Ryland, George Beale
| 020 7466 5000 |
| Apex Listed Companies Services (UK) Limited (Company Secretary) | 020 3327 9720 |
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