Zak Bentley
Zak Bentley is a senior reporter at Infrastructure Investor based in London. Zak joined Infrastructure Investor in 2016 from Centaur where he was a reporter at their Clean Energy Pipeline title.
He has a detailed knowledge and experience of the financial and regulatory aspects of the global renewable energy market, as well as the wider infrastructure market.
Zak has a degree in English and History from the University of Birmingham.
The two more established technologies have been excluded from new capacity auctions since 2015, but are now set to re-enter the fray.
Rejections of Bristol and Heathrow Airports’ expansion plans in the UK – alongside the impact of global health scares – cast a shadow on a popular infrastructure asset.
Fair Market Value Capital Partners, led by Frederic Michel-Verdier, is looking to acquire assets which could form a fund in the longer-term.
The latest round of fundraising for the Super Core series follows on from the close of Series 1 on €2.5bn in June 2018.
The vehicle’s £1.25bn target is the same figure as the hard-cap of its predecessor fund, which closed in November 2017.
The fund has already made three investments, including its first bioenergy deals since hiring a team from Foresight Group last year.
Richard Braakenburg, who joined the GIG at its inception in 2013, will replace Asif Rafique, who departed SUSI in August 2018.
Head of private markets Stephen O’Neill wants 'to see innovation' and solutions that are tailored to a defined-contribution scheme.
Anglian Water, Bristol Water and Northumbrian Water have joined Yorkshire Water in asking the CMA to review Ofwat’s December review.
The fund is about 75% invested after an acquisition from KKR this week, but the firm is now working to ‘ensure sufficient capital is available' to keep investing.