Canadian Solar, an Ontario-based renewables firm, has sold the Glenarm solar power plant to the Amsterdam-headquartered fund manager.
Swiss-based Partners Group reckons high valuations in segments such as regulated utilities and brownfield yielding assets is capping equity returns at or below 8%.
The Asian Development Bank has inked two loans totaling $85m to assist Thailand’s first independent power producer, Chaiyaphum Wind Farm Company.
GE Energy Financial Services and Morgan Stanley have helped the Swiss asset manager reach financial close on Briscoe Wind Farm, a 150MW project in Texas.
The firm, which saw 14 new investors commit to the fifth series of the vehicle, expects to be launching a successor during the first quarter of next year.
The Margam Green Energy Project is the fourth asset acquired by the French manager’s €500m Fund II.
The investment in the 298MW project is one of the first made by the energy-focused PE firm through its second infra vehicle.
The index provider created the new benchmark in response to growing interest in the segment and an "evolving shift" in the way investors view real assets.
The joint venture will comprise a large existing renewables portfolio and the development of future projects.
The investment comes in the form of senior secured notes issued by Freeport LNG Investments, complementing IFM’s asset-level investment of $1.3bn.
The move follows LPFA’s creation, jointly with Lancashire County, of an asset-liability management partnership covering assets potentially worth more than £10bn.
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The French insurer will invest in the asset class through Zencap Asset Management, the private debt unit of its asset management arm OFI.
The transaction will provide a lucrative exit from the UK rail leasing business for 3i, Morgan Stanley, STAR and PGGM.
The Hamburg-based alternative investment firm and Swiss utility ewz have together completed a wind transaction in Sweden.
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