Exhibit 10.6
RIDGEWOOD RENEWABLE POWER
LLC
SENIOR EXECUTIVE BONUS
PLAN
1. Background .
(a) Ridgewood Renewable Power LLC
(“RRP”) is a sponsor and managing shareholder of the
following investment vehicles (each, a “Trust” and
collectively, the “Trusts”):
Ridgewood
Electric Power Trust I (“Trust I”)
Ridgewood
Electric Power Trust II (“Trust II”)
Ridgewood
Electric Power Trust III (“Trust III”)
Ridgewood
Electric Power Trust IV (“Trust IV”)
Ridgewood
Electric Power Trust V (“Trust V”)
The
Ridgewood Power Growth Fund (“Growth”)
Ridgewood/Egypt
Fund (“Egypt Fund”)
Ridgewood
Power B Fund/Providence Expansion (“B Fund”)
(b) Under the applicable
organizational documents for each of the Trusts, RRP has the right
to participate in the ongoing distributions of the Trust after
investors in that Trust receive distributions equal to certain
threshold amounts generally when the investors’ original
invested capital has in the aggregate been
returned. RRP’s right to participate in such
distributions of a Trust is referred to herein as the “RRP
Carried Interest.”
(c) Each of the Trusts has made a
variety of investments, is fully invested, and it is not planned or
expected that any of the Trusts will invest in any new ventures
other than the reorganization of the facilities located at
Johnston, Rhode Island.
(d) In addition to the management of
the businesses carried on by the Trusts, RRP has developed or
acquired for its own account using its own funds certain business
models, intellectual property, know-how, development rights,
business relationships and opportunities and other assets which are
unrelated to any of the projects or businesses of the Trusts (the
“RRP Assets”).
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(e) Each of Randall D. Holmes, Douglas R. Wilson
and Stephen D. Galowitz (individually, a “Participant”
and collectively, “Participants”) serves as an officer
of RRP and shares responsibility for the operations of RRP as well
as the operations of the projects owned by each of the
Trusts.
(f) RRP has determined that it may be
advantageous for each of the Trusts to sell or otherwise dispose of
the projects owned by such Trust (a “Trust Asset
Disposition”). RRP may also determined to sell or
otherwise dispose of all of the RRP Assets (the “RRP Asset
Disposition”). For the avoidance of doubt, it is
not expected that any RRP Asset Disposition will include the sale
of RRP or the transfer of RRP’s name.
(g) Each Participant has been and
will be substantially involved in the planning for and execution of
any Trust Asset Dispositions and any RRP Asset Disposition, and RRP
anticipates that each Participant will continue to be substantially
involved in these activities. RRP has determined to
adopt and implement this RRP Senior Executive Bonus Plan (this
“Plan”) in order to provide a cash incentive to each
Participant in connection with successful consummations of one or
more of the Trust Asset Dispositions and/or the RRP Asset
Disposition, in each case on the terms and conditions set forth
herein.
2. Creation of Senior Executive Bonus
Pool; General Rules.
(a) Amounts Credited to Senior
Executive Bonus Pool . To the extent that RRP
hereafter receives (i) any amount of cash or other property from
any Trust with respect to the RRP Carried Interest in that Trust in
connection with a Qualified Transaction, or (ii) any proceeds in
the form of cash or other property from the RRP Asset Disposition
(net of a pro-rata portion of any out-of pocket-transaction
expenses or costs directly related to the RRP Asset Disposition) in
connection with a Qualified Transaction, then a portion of the
amounts of such cash and a portion of the fair market value of such
other property as of the date of receipt by RRP, but in all cases
in the form of cash pursuant to Section 2(d) or Section 2 (f) as
applicable, shall be notionally credited to a senior executive
bonus pool under this Plan (the “Senior Executive Bonus
Pool”). The portion of the RRP Carried Interest from each of
the Trusts and the portion of the proceeds from the RRP Asset
Disposition in connection with a Qualified Transaction to be
credited to the Senior Executive Bonus Pool will be credited
according to the following schedule:
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SOURCE
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PERCENTAGE
AMOUNT
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Trust
I
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30%
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Trust
II
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25%
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Trust
III
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25%
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Trust
IV
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25%
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Trust
V
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25%
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Growth
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25%
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Egypt
Fund
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25%
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B
Fund
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25%
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RRP Asset
Disposition
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30%
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Except as
provided for below, the amounts to be notionally credited to the
Senior Executive Bonus Pool shall not be reduced by any amounts,
including, without limitation, back-end fees paid to brokers,
registered representatives or others who participated in the
original placement of interests in any of the Trusts, or bonuses
paid pursuant to any bonus pool or other arrangements or agreements
for payments to officers and/or employees of RRP or Ridgewood Power
Management LLC, any internal reserves or any other expenses
incurred or accrued by RRP (other than the pro-rata portion of
out-of-pocket transaction expenses or costs incurred by RRP
directly in connection with the RRP Asset Disposition as described
above). For purposes of this Plan, a
Qualified Transaction means an RRP Asset Disposition or a Trust
Asset Disposition that is consummated pursuant to a definitive
purchase and sale agreement executed and delivered by all the
parties thereto on or prior to June 30, 2009.
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(b) Payments to Participants
. Subject to the limitations described in Section 2(c),
Section 2(d) and Section 2 (f) as applicable, and the satisfaction
of the Participant Conditions set forth in Section 3 (the
“Limitations”), RRP shall pay in cash an amount equal
to the total of the amounts notionally credited to the Senior
Executive Bonus Pool. Such notional credits shall be
paid out by RRP to Participants, in the percentage amounts set
forth in Exhibit A attached hereto (subject to adjustments for
valuation disputes provided for in Section 2 (d) and Section 2
(f)), immediately following the time in which the notional credits
are made pursuant to Section 2(a), subject to
satisfaction of the Limitations (if applicable) and with respect to
disputed notional amounts, the resolution of disputes over notional
amounts pursuant to Section 2 (d) or Section 2 (f) as applicable,
and such payment shall in all instances be made no later than the
15th day of the calendar year following the calendar year in which
the notional credits are made pursuant to Section
2(a) (or, if applicable, the 15th day of the calendar
year following the calendar year in which the Limitations are
satisfied).
(c) Sale-Related Third Party
Restrictions Applicable to RRP . Notwithstanding the
payment requirements of Section 2(b), in the event that RRP
receives cash or other property that would otherwise be notionally
credited to the Senior Executive Bonus Pool pursuant to Section
2(a) from a Trust Asset Disposition, but such cash or property is
subject to restrictions imposed solely by the terms of the sale or
other agreements setting out the terms of such Trust Asset
Dispositions giving rise to the receipt of such cash or
other property which restrictions denies or restricts RRP’s
unfettered ability to make use of such cash or other property for
its own use, then the amount of cash or other property subject to
such restrictions shall not be subject to the notional crediting
requirements of Section 2(a) and will not be subject to the payment
requirements of Section 2(b) unless and until, and only to the
extent that such restrictions lapse or are otherwise removed or RRP
is otherwise able to make use of such cash or other property as RRP
sees fit
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(d) Valuation of Property Received by
RRP . To the extent that RRP receives non-cash
property with respect to Section 2(a) from a Trust Asset
Disposition, then RRP shall make a good faith determination of the
fair market value of such property as of the date received by RRP
(whether or not such property is subject to restrictions), and
shall notionally credit the amount of such fair market value to the
Senior Executive Bonus Pool as provided in this Plan and shall
notify Participant of such valuation within 10 days of such
determination. If any one or more of Participants
disputes the valuation determination made by RRP, such
Participant(s) shall notify RRP in writing of such dispute within
20 days after notification of the valuation by RRP, which notice
shall include an alternative valuation proposed
by Participant(s) and such disputed notional amount
shall be removed from the Senior Executive Bonus Pool with respect
to such Participant and such Participant shall be entitled receive
the notional amount in dispute pursuant to the terms of this Plan
when the dispute is resolved by settlement or
arbitration. To the extent that such dispute is not
resolved within 30 days after such notice to RRP from Participant,
then such dispute shall be submitted to arbitration as provided in
Section 8(c). A dispute by one Participant shall not affect any
other Participant or the notional value of such others
Participant’s account or delay distribution under this Plan
to such other Participant.
(e) Receipt by RRP of Restricted
Securities . If and to the extent that RRP receives
securities that are subject to resale restrictions pursuant to
Federal or state securities laws or are otherwise restricted with
respect to resale or transfer for reasons unrelated to any holdback
or similar provision pursuant to the terms of the Trust
Asset Disposition transactions (“Restricted Securities),
these Restricted Securities will be treated as if such restrictions
did not exist for purposes of valuation pursuant to Section 2(d),
the value of such Restricted Securities shall be notionally
credited to the Senior Executive Bonus Pool as provided in Section
2(a) and will not be subject to the provisions of Section 2(c)
solely as a result of such resale and transfer
restrictions. If such Restricted Securities are subject
to holdback or similar restrictions imposed solely by the terms of
the sale or other agreements setting out the terms of such Trust
Asset Dispositions giving rise to the receipt of such Restricted
Securities (“Other Restrictions”), then the provisions
of Section 2(c) will apply but only to the extent of the Other
Restrictions.
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(f) RRP Asset Disposition Property
. If and to the extent that RRP receives
securities or other property excluding cash in an RRP Asset
Disposition and such securities or other non-cash property is
subject to resale or transfer restrictions or are subject to any
holdback or similar restrictions imposed by the agreement(s)
setting out the terms of such RRP Asset Disposition (“RRP
Disposition Restricted Property