上市公司智光电气近日公告，Zhiguang Energy Storage, its holding subsidiary, completed a new round of financing with a total scale of 700 million yuan and a post-investment valuation increased to 2.5 billion yuan。

Listed company Zhiguang Electric recently announced that Zhiguang Energy Storage, its controlling subsidiary, has introduced 10 external institutional shareholders in one go in the latest round of financing, many of whom have state-owned assets.
The announcement shows that this round of financing for Smart Light Energy Storage started at the end of last year and has completed delivery recently. The state-owned investment platforms participating in this round include:The Manufacturing Transformation and Upgrading Fund under China Development Finance, the provincial financial holding company Yuecai Holdings, the Southern Network Fund under China Southern Power Grid, and the Guangzhou Industrial Control of a municipal state-owned enterprise.
Among them, Yuecai Holdings invested a total of 300 million yuan through its two funds, and the State Development Manufacturing Transformation and Upgrading Fund invested 300 million yuan. After the completion of this round of capital increase, the proportion of Zhiguang Energy Storage directly and indirectly held by Zhiguang Electric changed to 66.82%, and it remains the latter's controlling shareholder.

According to the announcement of Zhiguang Electric, the current round of financing for Zhiguang Energy Storage will start in December 2023. The purpose of increasing capital and expanding shares includes enriching financial strength and gathering advantageous resources from various parties to form a synergistic effect.

Industrial and commercial data shows that previously, Zhiguang Energy Storage has completed two rounds of financing in 2020 and 2021, with investors including Wanlian Tianze and Ketai Power. Zhiguang Electric officially established a subsidiary Zhiguang Energy Storage in 2018 to carry out energy storage business.

In the technical fields of electrochemical energy storage and supercapacitor energy storage, Zhiguang Energy Storage provides customers with services such as energy storage investment, system integration and equipment sales. It can also provide system integrators with technologies and equipment such as PACK integration of energy storage batteries., and also battery testing technical services. Its energy storage products include power station-type large-capacity energy storage systems (cascade high-voltage energy storage), demand-side energy storage systems (modular low-voltage energy storage) and mobile energy storage products.

responsible editor: Qingyun

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