All right, thank you, everyone. Thank you to all of you for attending my presentation today. My name is Bernard Tan. I'm the CEO and one of the Founders of a company called RE Royalties. RE Royalties is a royalty company that focuses on the renewable sector. Our ticker symbol on the TSX Venture Exchange is RE, and on the OTCQX is RROYF. Again, just quickly before I begin, I would just like to point out that this presentation will contain some forward-looking information. Please refer to our regulatory filings or website for further information. The vision and objective of the company is simple. We aim to create wealth and income for our investors, and we also aim to create positive impact for the environment, which is why we are focused primarily and only on renewables.
How we aim to achieve this is really to acquire and build a portfolio of growing, long-term, stable, and diversified renewable investments that will provide our investors with long-term, sustainable cash flows. A little bit of background on the company. The company started in 2016, was listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in late 2018, and commenced trading on the OTCQX in 2022. Since we started the company, we've raised and invested over CAD 80 million into a diversified portfolio of renewable energy investments that's diversified across technologies and also jurisdictions. The achieved IRR on our portfolio to date is roughly about 18%-19%, and we also pay a dividend. We have had a track record of 25 consecutive quarters, or roughly about six years of dividend payments. We have also grown revenues over the past five years on a compounded annual growth rate of roughly over 60%.
We have been recognized by one of Canada's leading publications, The Globe and Mail, twice as one of Canada's top growing companies. A few members of our management team have also won Clean 50 Awards, which recognizes clean capitalism in terms of Canadian contributions. Our investments also generate significant impact that meets a lot of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. S&P Global last year gave us a dark green rating, which is really the highest rating in terms of positive environmental impact. This has really helped us lower our cost of capital in terms of the bonds that we've issued. Why invest? This is a very common question that we get of, you know, why should investors look to invest in our company? There are really four pillars that investors invest in us. One, investors invest in us because of the yield.
At our current trading share price, we provide roughly about a 9% yield. Again, we have paid this dividend for roughly about 25 consecutive quarters. We recently announced our last one. Also, growth. You know, in terms of our revenue, we've been growing revenues over the last five years by roughly about a 60% rate. And we also have a strong pipeline, which we can continue this growth trajectory. One of the unique aspects of how we invest is also on a protection basis. One of the ways we invest is using a secured loan, which is also asset-backed, which provides a lot of security for investors. Also, the last pillar would be the impact. Our portfolio generates over 400,000 tons of carbon abatement on an annualized basis, so quite significant. In terms of the market opportunity, you know, what is the market opportunity?
We are at the intersection of a very significant generational market transition. This is really the energy transition. It is presenting as one of the greatest investment opportunities of a lifetime. It is a very long-term macroeconomic trend that is here to stay. You know, what do the numbers tell us? Last year, according to Bloomberg, there was over $2 trillion, that's with a T, that was invested on an annualized basis. What is driving this trend? There is a variety of different factors. Not only is energy demand increasing, but the emergence of electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, blockchain, crypto, these are all big long-term drivers that will continue to drive electricity demand in the near- term and also the long- term. It is not slowing down. We are seeing that increase year-over-year, and the numbers show it.
Within the renewables sector alone, close to $800 billion, that's with a B, was invested last year. That's still not enough. You know, if you look at all the projections from Bloomberg, we need to triple that investment in order for countries to really meet some of the net zero goals that we've set. In terms of the market itself for renewable energy, renewable energy in certain corners, you know, people view it as an energy play, but it's really not an energy play. It's really more of a technology play. A lot of the growth in renewables that we've seen are really driven by underlying technology improvements. Very similar to your cell phones, your laptops, your cars, it's the sort of emergence of being able to build technologies better year-over-year.
In terms of some of the decreasing costs, over 85% decrease for solar and storage over the last 10 years. Bloomberg estimates that today, two-thirds of the world's population live in countries where solar or wind are really the cheapest source of new electricity. In many places, renewables can actually displace the more traditional energy sources. It is expected by 2030, this will be the case almost everywhere. Despite the fact that the energy transition market is large and growing, how easily is it to invest for the general public? I would say it's extremely difficult. If you look at just the companies that are presenting at this conference, there are actually not that many that are actually focused in this space.
Really, most of the investments occur in the private markets and in the world of private equity, where large institutions, sovereign wealth funds, in other words, not average folks, have access to these investments. High minimum thresholds, locked-in investment periods, concentration risks, you know, those are kind of the things that dominate. If you look at the TSX alone, in the renewable and cleantech sector, it's extremely small, represents roughly about 1%. If you take out the largest company, it's, you know, not even, you know, 0.1% or 0.2%. It is very difficult to invest because it's difficult for fund managers to create financial products, you know, for things like ETF because there just isn't any companies out there.
If you look at a typical bank product that's offered by a bank on a green fund, you'll see that there aren't many companies that really focus on this area. What we try to do at RE is really to create a product that is representative of both the private and also public sectors, which provides an exposure for investors to really get in on this sector. In other words, you know, buying an RE stock is very similar to buying a liquid alternative, and that's really what we're trying to do. It's open to, you know, investors of different classes and sizes, whether you're a small retail investor or even up to a pension fund. We have shareholders that come from the pension fund world, the family office, and the fund world as well.
In terms of our portfolio, we have, as I mentioned, invested over CAD 80 million, and this is Canadian dollars, I apologize, across 26 different transactions. Across these 26 different transactions represents about 135 projects. Most of them, you can see, are in solar and storage, followed by wind, and there are a few in the renewable natural gas and hydro space. About 80% are in North America, primarily in Canada and the U.S., and we are spread across different jurisdictions within Canada and the U.S. as well, and also a few investments in Mexico, European Union, and Chile. As mentioned, the historical investor IRR rates for our portfolio has been roughly about 18%. What do we look for in terms of the business model? First, we only look for renewable projects that help mitigate climate change and offset greenhouse gases.
We focus on proven technology and have a preference for operating projects that will reach operation in a very near- term. We like cash flow. In order to service our dividend, we need those cash flows. In terms of where we invest, we like geographical diversification because electricity doesn't really trade like a global commodity. It's very regional, and each market, province to province, state to state, has its unique rules. Our target returns are typically in the 10%-20% range, which really helps us to support that dividend and yield to our shareholders while also driving growth. Our goal is really to create that diversified portfolio because diversification is really the only free lunch, you know, in terms of investing today. In terms of how we invest, we generally have two ways that we invest.
One is we buy a royalty, and the easiest way to describe it, it's a stream of future cash flows. We discount it, and we provide an upfront payment to our client, and we collect those cash flow streams over a, you know, 15- to 20-year period. The second and most popular way in which we invest is actually using a short-term secured loan, and we also receive a royalty. The reason why we do this, it's A, our clients' favorite products. A lot of clients look for this product because usually we are bridging them, you know, to a long-term financing or a larger capital raise. Also, secondly, it works very well in terms of our capital structure because we are able to actually drive growth.
If you look on the right-hand side of the presentation in terms of those sideway bar charts, using an example of, say, we invest $1 million, we charge an interest, we create a royalty with one of our clients, when we get repaid that capital in three years' time, you know, we can reinvest that into the next deal, usually with the same client, and then get a royalty on the new asset. When we do this over time, over a 20-year period, you can see that using that same capital, we can create seven streams of royalties, as a very generic example. This actually drives and is very capital efficient and helps us grow organically without having to raise more capital. In terms of the capital structure and financial information, we currently have about 43 million shares outstanding with a market cap of roughly about CAD 20 million.
Insiders of the company own roughly about 25%, and we are very strongly aligned with shareholders. We are currently sitting on approximately CAD 13 million in cash on our balance sheet, and we have signed a letter of intent with a repeat client to fully deploy those funds in an upcoming transaction. We have a very good line of sight in putting that remaining cash to work. In terms of the annualized revenues, on a 12-month trailing basis, we're projecting roughly about CAD 9 million with an EBITDA of roughly around CAD 6 million. Part of this dip in revenues over the last 12 months is because we were sitting on quite a bit of cash in terms of waiting to be deployed. Once deployed, we expect our revenues to be closer to around the CAD 10 million-CAD 11 million range on an annualized basis.
One of the things to highlight as well in the last five years on the growth chart on the right is that, you know, I do not have to go through, but there were a lot of major events that occurred, things like the pandemic, the geopolitical events, inflation. One of the things that, you know, our team is really proud of is really the consistency of being able to deliver despite all those market noises. We plan on doing the same to do that slow growth or consistent growth to be able to reward our shareholders. In terms of DO pipeline, as mentioned, we recently announced a signed LOI where we would provide Revolve Renewables, that is another company that is attending this conference, please check them out, with acquisition funding. They are looking to acquire a 9.6-MW operating wind farm in the Western U.S.
In terms of the deal, we are providing a two-year loan at 12% with a 5% gross revenue royalty for the life of the asset. This will add roughly about $1.5 million in revenues for us. In terms of the asset itself, it's been operational and consists of six 1.6-MW turbines. We do expect Revolve to close the acquisition hopefully sometime this quarter. In terms of other deal flow, you know, we are looking at a number of different opportunities as well. On an annualized basis, we look anywhere between $600 million-$1 billion worth of transaction. Obviously, those get vetted down. In terms of LOI that we reach, I would say it's roughly in the 5%-10% range, you know, anywhere between $30 million-$50 million that we have actively going.
What that does is that it gives us a very healthy backlog of transactions when we do get repaid that capital or if we need to raise additional funding. Our team's working through that. In terms of the next 12 months, really the primary focus is putting that money to work. As I mentioned, we have a very good line of sight in making sure that capital is deployed and also with other deal flow when capital is repaid back to us. We have a very strong pipeline. Once we, as mentioned, once we've deployed, we aim to achieve roughly about $10 million-$11 million in revenue with about $7 million-$8 million in EBITDA. We are also looking at co-investment partnerships and also a green bond refinancing later in the year.
That's a way to really work with larger capital providers in going after larger deals. Typically, our deal size brackets have been anywhere between $5 million- $10 million. Co-investment partnerships do allow us to chase larger size transactions. Really, the last thing is marketing, marketing, marketing. This is our first time at this conference. You know, we hope to expose ourselves to more investors because primarily most of our investor base has been the Canadians. Just a quick snapshot of our team. The nice thing of a royalty company is we're small, we're nimble, and we're cheap. Same with our board. A lot of our board are independent board members. Again, you know, from a governance perspective, that independence helps to make sure we are on the right track. Just to quickly summarize, you know, why RE?
We are the only renewable energy royalty company that we are aware of that's publicly traded. We provide a very strong risk-adjusted returns in terms of growth and return on our portfolio, but also a strong track record of making sure we pay and reward our shareholders. In terms of the outlook, you know, we are diversified, but we can also move in jurisdictions where we see tremendous opportunity. We protect shareholders' capital and also have a strong management team that has been recognized, you know, across the industry. Thank you for your time, and I'll open up to questions.
Sure. Thank you for the presentation. Your banking company is very well protected.
Thank you.
What's the main risk, as you see from the business?
I would say our biggest risk is probably the human capital side, just because we have a small team.
We try not to take the same plane, same elevators, because really, at the end of the day, the core IP is really the team that creates the relationships. The team, you know, I think if you look at our clients, our customers that we finance, it's a very relationship business. That's why, you know, our clients keep coming back three, four times. Really, that's because of the people. You know, protecting that, you know, that team is extremely important. You know, and very proud to say, you know, I hope I don't jinx myself that since the formation of the company, we have not lost a single employee over our entire corporate history. People tend to stay with us, you know, for quite some time, and, you know, we hope to be able to grow those individuals.
Given your focus on diversification, just curious how you see the portfolio evolving over time in terms of technologies and geographic region and then how that might.
Yeah, that's a great question. I think from a technology standpoint, solar and storage remains, you know, the top technologies, you know, that we're seeing. From a jurisdiction standpoint, I know that there's a lot of sort of noise currently in the U.S. with respect to the IRA. We actually see a lot of opportunity. Historically, we've been a bit of a contrarian investor. You know, we usually go in when the larger funds, and that's really because we see that the return profile is much more consistent with the risk that, you know, is there. We try not to chase because it ends up, you know, it's a chase to the bottom and the risk goes up.
We do like the U.S., you know, at the moment, but we, you know, we have some deal flow that we are actively pursuing. All right. Thank you, everyone. Thanks for your time.