BRNS Blackrock New S

BlackRock New Energy Investment Trust plc

Results of AGM

Following the Annual General Meeting which was held today, we are pleased to
announce that all resolutions put to shareholders were passed on a vote on a
show of hands. Resolution 10 is an ordinary resolution under special business
and resolutions 11, 12 and 13 are special resolutions, as follows:

(Res. 10) To grant the Directors authority to allot shares.

(Res. 11) To authorise the Directors to disapply pre-emption rights in respect
of issues of new ordinary shares or the sale of ordinary shares out of treasury
(Res. 12) To authorise the Directors to purchase the Company's ordinary shares
for cancellation or to be held in treasury.
(Res. 13) To authorise the Directors to purchase the Company's subscription
shares for cancellation.


Under listing rule 9.6.2 a copy of the resolutions has been submitted to the
National Storage Mechanism, and will shortly be made available for inspection
at:

www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

Proxy votes received in favour of the resolutions were as follows:

Resolution 1: 96.05%
Resolution 2: 99.63%
Resolution 3: 99.59%
Resolution 4: 99.74%
Resolution 5: 99.74%
Resolution 6: 99.77%
Resolution 7: 99.74%
Resolution 8: 99.78%
Resolution 9: 99.17%
Resolution 10: 99.81%
Resolution 11: 99.67%
Resolution 12: 99.69%
Resolution 13: 99.73%

6 February 2014