Updating Innergex Renewable Energy Inc.

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INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY INC. $14 (Toronto symbol INE; Shares outstanding: 108.1 million; Market cap: $1.5 billion; Dividend yield 4.7%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.innergex.com) operates 29 hydroelectric plants, 16 wind farms and one solar power field. Those facilities are spread across Quebec, Ontario, B.C., Idaho and France. The company gets 61% of its power from the hydro plants, 38% from wind and 1% from solar. Starting with the April 2017 payment, the company raised its quarterly dividend by 3.1%, to $0.165 a share from $0.16. The new annual rate of $0.66 yields 4.7%. Innergex recently 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 total capacity of 817 megawatts. Innergex’s annual revenue is over $277 million. To cut risk, the company makes sure that there are longterm power-purchase contracts in place…