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Matías Prats invested in a solar company with friends before its sale
Matías Prats invested in a solar-energy company with friends, joining Spain’s renewable-energy business years ago.
The company, Fotovoltaica Tarazona Trece, was founded in 2008 to produce electricity from renewable sources.
It was later sold to Q-Energy, and Prats stopped being its administrator and sole shareholder; he has not publicly explained why he left.
In 2018, he said the investment generated electricity but was not yet bringing much return, although the company recorded a positive result of just over €8,000 in 2020.
Prats said he and his father viewed work differently: his father lived to work, while he said he worked to live.
His father, veteran broadcaster Matías Prats Cañete, had initially advised against hiring him at TVE, but later became his close supporter and teacher.
Prats has worked in television for decades, joining TVE as a trainee in 1975 before moving to Antena 3 in 1998, where he became a familiar news presenter.
Matías Prats invested in a renewable-energy company with friends after they invited him to participate.
The company, Fotovoltaica Tarazona Trece S.L., was founded in May 2008 and produced electricity from renewable sources.
Prats said in 2018 that the investment had not yet yielded a return.
The company was later sold to the Q-Energy fund, and Prats ceased to be its administrator and sole shareholder.
The company reported a positive result of just over €8,000 for 2020.
- Who
- Matías Prats invested alongside friends.
- What
- They invested in Fotovoltaica Tarazona Trece S.L., a renewable-energy company that was later sold to the Q-Energy fund.
- When
- The company was founded in May 2008; Prats discussed the investment in 2018. The sale date is not stated.
- Where
- Spain. The company was named Fotovoltaica Tarazona Trece S.L.
- Why
- Friends invited Prats to invest, and he said he liked renewable energy.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Fotovoltaica Tarazona Trece S.L. was founded.
Prats said he had invested in the company with friends and that the investment had not yet yielded a return.
The company recorded a positive result of just over €8,000.
The company was sold to the Q-Energy fund, and Prats ceased to be its administrator and sole shareholder.
- Company
- Fotovoltaica Tarazona Trece S.L.
- Founded
- May 2008
- Investor
- Matías Prats, alongside friends
- Buyer
- Q-Energy fund
- 2020 result
- Just over €8,000
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Matías Prats, sobre su padre y su patrimonio: "Mi padre vivía para trabajar y yo, para vivir; he invertido en una empresa fotovoltaica junto a unos amigos"
Matías Prats, sobre su patrimonio: «Mi padre vivía para trabajar y yo, para vivir; he invertido en una empresa fotovoltaica junto a unos amigos»
What people are saying
It generates electricity, but it does not generate much more. We made an investment many years ago with some friends, who invited me to participate. I liked it because I like everything that is renewable. I decided to invest, but it still does not yield a return.
He lived more to work, and I live to live. I have a responsibility to fulfil my role, but it is something else.