Jeffrey Altman, Hans Poser and Felix ab Egg, of consultancy Finadvice, take Bruno Alves on a whirlwind tour of the global power markets and draw lessons from Europe’s rapid renewables buildup.
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The UK company would use part of the proceeds to fund recent acquisitions and pursue a ‘pipeline of investment opportunities’.
The winning bid, also backed by Future Fund and OMERS, smashed expectations by a significant margin.
Located in southern England, the plant is the 11th project Cubico has bought from British Solar Renewables in eight months.
This will be Amazon’s fifth renewable energy project in the US and continues the trend of tech giants powering data centres with wind and solar.
The two buyout firms have purchased three natural gas plants and a coal-fired facility at a time when US power prices are low, anticipating future increases.
HICL has invested £50m in bonds issued by the UK’s A13, a rare exception for an asset class that does not generally offer ‘the appropriate balance of return, duration and inflation linkage’.
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The Aussie firm’s hiring of Adam Heath as VP is part of the firm’s broader plan to seize on increasing opportunities in the US infrastructure debt market.
The German developer has pledged €3.1bn to the portfolio of projects, shortly after the US Export-Import Bank said it would restart lending to the country.
Simon and Jessica Wilde, in the second of a series of articles, find that unlisted returns, when put in context, are not always as good as they are cracked up to be.
The asset manager specialises in hydropower assets, but with these acquisitions, manages a 724MW combined wind portfolio as well.
TRIG, backed by InfraRed Capital Partners, has issued up to £25m of ordinary shares to help pay for a Scottish wind acquisition.
The Luxembourg-based firm, which completed its spinout from French lender Natixis in January, is aiming to raise €1.2bn for the vehicle.
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The Commission President wants to double the size of the European Fund for Strategic Investments to €630bn by 2022.
The French manager is looking to sell the €1.1bn vehicle before the end of the year.