French deal to lift sales

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INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY $14.08 (Toronto symbol INE; Shares outstanding: 108.2 million; Market cap: $1.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Divd. yield 4.6%; www.innergex.com) has paid $12.6 million for 69.55% of two wind power plants in France. The new facilities have 24 megawatts of generating power and should contribute $6.1 million to Innergex’s annual revenue. To put that in perspective, the company’s current plants have a capacity of 817 megawatts. Innergex’s annual revenue is over $277 million. To cut risk, the company makes sure that power plants it builds or buys all have long-term power-purchase contracts in place. The two French plants, located about 400 kilometres south-west of Paris, will sell all of their output under a power purchase agreement with EDF; it’s an electric power utility largely owned by the French government. Innergex Renewable Energy is a buy. buy…