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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.
A quartet comprising DCNS, the Bpifrance-supported SPI fund, Technip and BNP Paribas hopes to create a leading tidal developer both in France and abroad.
The JPMorgan-owned power producer has bought a collection of assets in Spain from Centerbridge, with an agreement to explore further deals alongside the US investment firm.
The potential shift to define local authority pension funds as retail investors by upcoming legislation is ‘counterintuitive’, according to the UK’s pension fund association.
Investing through its European renewables platform Vortex, EFG Hermes has teamed up with a Malaysian utility to buy 365MW of solar projects from the defunct developer's yieldco.
Sealing deals with local firm Ballast Nedam, the UK fund has invested in the Netherlands’ A9 motorway and bought the remaining share it did not own of a prison.
The insurance giant has made its first move into offshore wind with a €30m investment in a German plant.
Azienda Solare Italiana, formerly owned by Antin, has issued new project bonds to refinance part of its 85MW solar portfolio in Italy.
The UK-based Pension Insurance Corporation has supplied £87m of debt to the project alongside the PGGM-owned University Partnerships Programme, wrapped by Assured Guaranty.
Tages Group has secured a €162m debt package from five French and Italian banks to refinance 55.4MW of installed solar plants in Italy.
FEIH, the pair’s three-year-old tie-up, will absorb the assets operated by ENGIE-owned developer Maia Eolis into its 810MW portfolio.
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