This year, REO will finance 22 projects to create waste management facilities as part of the formation of a closed-loop economy using funds received from the bond issue. This is stated in the message of the REO.
The total amount of financing will exceed 55 billion rubles. According to the investment projects, about 4.71 million tons of waste management capacity will be created. The purchasers of the bonds are Sberbank PJSC and VEB. Russian Federation, GPB JSC and Rosselkhoznadzor JSC.
Thus, the operator plans to place 22 releases on 22 projects, within which 20 integrated MSW management facilities and 2 waste recycling facilities will be built. They will appear in the Krasnodar and Perm Territories, in Bashkortostan, Dagestan and Mordovia, in the Voronezh, Leningrad, Magadan, Samara, Sakhalin, Rostov, Tambov and Chelyabinsk regions, as well as in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and St. Petersburg.
The REO financing mechanism assumes a bond circulation period of up to 12 years, subsidizing coupon income in the amount of 90% of the Central Bank's key rate. Concessional loans will be provided at a rate of 8-9% per annum.
In two years, REO has registered 14 bond issues in the amount of 51.4 billion rubles: in 2023 — 9 issues in the amount of 29.9 billion rubles; in 2024 — 5 issues in the amount of 21.5 billion rubles. All funds from the placement of REO bonds are directed to the implementation of investment projects to create and modernize the MSW management infrastructure with a total cost of almost 79.5 billion rubles.
