The US and Canada go into 2017 after an uptick in infrastructure investments last year. That's likely to continue, but the path will probably look different for each country.
In addition to mega-privatisations, Australia counts a solid pipeline of large-scale, complex PPP projects. Notwithstanding wobbles on the political front, transport and healthcare are set to benefit in 2017.
The new vehicle will be used to acquire assets, including Belfast City Airport and a UK utility, from an EISER fund that is nearing the end of its life.
The firm has divested 14.3% of the business, which it originally invested in in 2005, through what it described as an ‘over-subscribed offering’.
Funding from government subsidies and BT are set to finance superfast broadband covering 90% of the UK.
Further acquisitions from NextPower II, through which the firm aims to build a £1bn portfolio, are expected early next year.
The $325m Silverton project will be the first greenfield asset backed by the Powering Australian Renewables Fund, through which the partners aim to deploy up to A$3bn.
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Using funds from the recently closed MEIF5, the Australian firm has made its third offshore wind investment and largest to date.
The firm is paying about €100m for OSB, a subsidiary of French utility Suez, in its third deal with the €1bn fund it closed in October.
Investors are waiting to see how the US President-elect fulfills his campaign promise to invest $1trn in infrastructure – and if it’s even possible. We investigate.
The deal sees the Green Investment Bank and Lloyds drop out of the transaction they first lent to in 2012.
The fund has exercised an option to purchase part of the InterCity Express Project from parent developer John Laing.
In a vote of confidence for the renewables market Down Under, the firm's A$1.2bn energy trust has increased its clean generation portfolio to 350MW.
Nearly two months after the UK government approved the development of a new runway at Heathrow, we assess what the move means for the airport’s shareholders.