Good Energy Group PLC Further strategic investment in Zapmap Limited

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Good Energy Group PLC

12 June 2024

 

12 June 2024

Good Energy Group PLC
("Good Energy" or the "Company")

Further £1.7 million strategic investment in Zapmap Limited

Good Energy Group PLC (AIM: GOOD), the renewable electricity supplier and energy services provider, is pleased to announce that it has made a further £1.7 million strategic investment into Zapmap Limited ("Zapmap") through a convertible loan note.

Good Energy currently holds 49.9% of the issued share capital of Zapmap.  Today's investment of a further £1.7m has been made through a secured convertible loan note which has now been fully drawn down.  Amounts owed under the convertible loan note accrue interest at 10% per annum.  Good Energy can convert the loan to equity at a material discount at the earlier of: a sale of the business, subsequent funding rounds, or on or after 31 January 2025. Including this latest convertible loan, Good Energy has provided funding totalling approximately £7.5 million to Zapmap since its initial investment in 2019.  Good Energy's latest investment has been funded from its existing cash reserves.

The further investment from Good Energy will be used by Zapmap to continue growing its business-to-business offerings, Zapmap Spark and Zapmap Insights.  The business plans to continue its focus on the UK market, whilst offering mapping in both the US and other European markets.  Zap Map aims to reach breakeven point during 2025.

These services complement Zapmap's consumer app, which has successfully established itself as the leading app for EV drivers, helping them search, plan and pay for charging.  Now with over 1.54 million app downloads and 860,000 registered users, it has a significant market share of the drivers of the UK's 1 million battery electric vehicle parc.

In addition to its consumer facing app, monetised via a freemium subscription model, media and payments, the business has a growing API and data offering.  Zapmap Spark, an API product launched in October 2023 offers other organisations the ability to embed Zapmap data in their own digital products.  With the UK's most comprehensive database of public EV charging, including live data feeds from more than 75% of public charge points, Zapmap Insights is the go-to source for businesses and other organisations, including the Department for Transport, with up-to-date data on the UK's crucial EV charger roll-out.

Nigel Pocklington, CEO of Good Energy and Chair of Zapmap said:

"Zapmap is playing a critical role not only to hundreds of thousands of EV drivers, but to the UK's decarbonisation pathway through the data and technology it has built.

We are proud to have supported the company in building a significant userbase, maintaining share in the rapidly growing EV driver market. We are confident that their burgeoning offerings to businesses and other organisations in Spark and Insights will see similar success."

 

Enquiries

Good Energy Group PLC
Nigel Pocklington, Chief Executive Officer Ian McKee, Head of Communications	Email: [e-mail]
SEC Newgate UK	Email: [e-mail]
Elisabeth Cowell / Molly Gretton	Tel: [phone]
Investec Bank plc (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker)
Henry Reast / James Rudd	Tel: [phone]
Canaccord Genuity Limited (Joint Broker)
Henry Fitzgerald - O'Connor / Bobbie Hilliam / Harry Rees	Tel: [phone]

 

About Good Energy www.goodenergy.co.uk

Good Energy is a supplier of 100% renewable power and an innovator in energy services. It has long term power purchase agreements with a community of 2,000 independent UK generators.

Since it was founded over 20 years ago, the company has been at the forefront of the charge towards a cleaner, distributed energy system. Its mission is to power a cleaner, greener world and make it simple to generate, share, store, use and travel by clean power. Its ambition is to support one million homes and businesses to cut carbon from their energy and transport used by 2025.

Good Energy is recognised as a leader in this market, through green kite accreditation with the London Stock Exchange, Which? Eco Provider status and Gold Standard Uswitch Green Tariff Accreditation for all tariffs.

 

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