Shares in Active Energy Group PLC (AIM:AEG, OTCID:AEUSF) rose 7.5% to 0.1p after it reported its first full month of trading from the Ghummud facility in Abu Dhabi.

It generated net revenue of around $110,000, as the company begins to validate its strategy of acquiring grid-connected power infrastructure and overlaying digital capacity.

The site achieved average fleet uptime of approximately 97% across all deployed units during the month, with management continuing to increase utilisation as additional customer capacity is brought online.

On an annualised basis, the first month's performance implies an illustrative revenue run-rate of around around $1.3 million per year, though the company cautions this figure is not a profit forecast and should not be treated as an indication of future performance.

The board said initial results were broadly in line with internal expectations and supported the commercial rationale behind the company's acquisition-led model.

Ghummud represents Active Energy's first operational deployment within a broader UAE infrastructure platform that also includes an 8 megavolt-ampere development project and the recently announced Khazna acquisition.

Together, the three assets form the foundation of what the company describes as an ambition to build a substantially larger portfolio of energised digital infrastructure assets across the UAE.

Chief executive Paul Elliott said the 97% uptime figure demonstrated both the quality of the underlying infrastructure and the capability of the operational team managing the site.

Elliott framed Ghummud as proof of concept for the wider acquisition strategy, noting that the company had acquired a live grid-connected asset, deployed digital infrastructure on top of it and brought the site into revenue generation rapidly, with the asset now contributing towards funding its own acquisition cost.

The model Active Energy is pursuing centres on acquiring existing energised sites rather than building from scratch, a strategy that reduces both lead times and execution risk compared with developing new grid connections in a region where power infrastructure capacity is a significant constraint on digital infrastructure growth.

The company said it would continue to provide operational updates as the UAE platform develops, with additional opportunities currently under evaluation.

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