Terraform Power Confirms Receipt of Unsolicited Proposal from Brookfield Renewable and Announces Formation of Special Committee

NEW YORK, Jan. 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TerraForm Power, Inc. (Nasdaq: TERP) (“TerraForm Power”) today confirmed that on January 11, 2020, its Board of Directors (the “Board”) received an unsolicited, non-binding proposal (the “Proposal”) from Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. (TSX: BEP.UN; NYSE: BEP) (“Brookfield Renewable”) to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock of TerraForm Power, other than the approximately 62% of TerraForm Power’s shares currently held by Brookfield Renewable and its affiliates (the “proposed transaction”). Pursuant to the Proposal, each share of Class A common stock of TerraForm Power would be acquired for consideration of 0.36 of a Class A share of Brookfield Renewable Corporation (“BEPC”). The Proposal states that BEPC is a Canadian subsidiary of Brookfield Renewable and will be a publicly traded corporation.  The Proposal further states that BEPC's Class A shares will be structured to be economically equivalent to Brookfield Renewable units and will be fully exchangeable, on a one-for-one basis, into units of Brookfield Renewable.

The Board has formed a special committee (the “Special Committee”) of non-executive, independent directors and the Special Committee is currently in the process of engaging financial and legal advisors to assist in its review of the Proposal.  The Special Committee, in consultation with its advisors, will carefully review and consider the Proposal and pursue the course of action that it believes is in the best interests of TerraForm Power’s stockholders. TerraForm Power’s stockholders do not need to take any action at this time.

There can be no assurance that a definitive proposal relating to the proposed transaction will be made, that any such proposal will be recommended or accepted by the Special Committee, that a definitive agreement relating to the proposed transaction or any other transaction will be entered into by TerraForm Power, or that any transaction will be consummated.

TerraForm Power

TerraForm Power owns and operates a best-in-class renewable power portfolio of solar and wind assets located primarily in the U.S. and E.U., totaling more than 4,000 MW of installed capacity. TerraForm Power’s goal is to acquire operating solar and wind assets in North America and Western Europe. TerraForm Power is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq: TERP). It is sponsored by Brookfield Asset Management, a leading global alternative asset manager with more than $500 billion of assets under management.

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Sherif El-Azzazi

TerraForm Power                                                                                

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