TerraForm Power Issues Conditional Call Redemption Notice for its $950 Million Senior Notes due 2023

BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TerraForm Power, Inc. (Nasdaq:TERP) ("TerraForm Power") today announced that its indirect subsidiary, TerraForm Power Operating, LLC (the "Issuer") has delivered a notice of redemption of all of its outstanding $950 million aggregate principal amount of 5.875% Senior Notes due 2023 (the "2023 Notes"), subject to, and conditioned upon, the closing of its previously announced private offering of $1 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes (the "Redemption Condition"). The 2023 Notes will, subject to, and conditioned upon, the Redemption Condition, be redeemed in accordance with the indenture governing the 2023 Notes. This press release does not constitute a notice of redemption of the 2023 Notes.

The redemption date for the 2023 Notes provided in the notice of redemption is December 12, 2017 (the "Redemption Date"), provided that the Redemption Date for the 2023 Notes may be extended by the Issuer pending satisfaction of the Redemption Condition. The 2023 Notes will be redeemed at a redemption price that we currently estimate to include a make-whole premium of approximately $51 million in the aggregate, plus accrued and unpaid interest. If the Redemption Condition is not satisfied, the 2023 Notes will not be redeemed and will remain outstanding.

About 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., totaling more than 2,600 megawatts of installed capacity.  TerraForm Power has a mandate to acquire operating solar and wind assets in North America and Western Europe. TerraForm Power is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange (Nasdaq:TERP).  It is sponsored by Brookfield Asset Management, a leading global alternative asset manager with ~US$265 billion of assets under management.

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By their nature, forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, risks related to Brookfield sponsorship, including our ability to realize the expected benefits of the transaction with Brookfield, risks related to wind conditions at our wind assets or to weather conditions at our solar assets, risks related to potential events of default at our project financings, risks related to delays in our filing of periodic reports with the SEC, risks related to the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting, pending and future litigation, our ability to integrate the projects we acquire from third parties or otherwise and realize the anticipated benefits from such acquisitions, the willingness and ability of counterparties to fulfill their obligations under offtake agreements, price fluctuations, termination provisions and buyout provisions in offtake agreements, our ability to enter into contracts to sell power on acceptable prices and terms, including as our offtake agreements expire, our ability to successfully identify, evaluate and consummate acquisitions, government regulation, including compliance with regulatory and permit requirements and changes in market rules, rates, tariffs, tax rules, environmental laws and policies affecting renewable energy, operating and financial restrictions placed on us and our subsidiaries related to agreements governing indebtedness, the condition of the debt and equity capital markets and our ability to borrow additional funds and access capital markets, as well as our substantial indebtedness and the possibility that we may incur additional indebtedness going forward, cash trapped at the project level, including the risk that such project-level cash may not be released up to us in a timely manner, risks related to the proposed relocation of our headquarters, our ability to compete against traditional and renewable energy companies, and hazards customary to the power production industry and power generation operations, such as unusual weather conditions and outages.

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