Zak Bentley
The Swiss firm’s renewables fund has bought a wind farm in Finland while its energy efficiency counterpart has financed a street lighting scheme in Italy.
The Chinese utility is set to buy a chunk of the country’s power network after placing a higher bid than a consortium comprising Terna and F2i.
The bank has also pledged an additional €62.5m to a broadband deployment programme supported by the Swiss firm, which was known as Argos Investment Managers until October last year.
The Swiss firm has funded two projects totalling 12MW through the vehicle, which it is currently raising with a €250m target.
The UK firm has hired Jim Wright from the British Steel Pension Fund to lead its first dedicated infrastructure vehicle.
The private equity firm has submitted an irrevocable offer for the UK’s third-largest rail freight operator in a bid to merge it with Hector Rail.
8minutenergy is looking for dry powder to help it develop a US project pipeline of about 5.5GW, including 2GW in Texas.
The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund is looking to make further inroads in infrastructure as part of a revamped real assets investment strategy.
The French developer is hoping to use the extra funds, some of which will come from development financier Proparco, to help it reach its goal of 1GW of installed capacity by 2019.
The deal, which concludes an auction launched by SSE, will see the sovereign wealth fund take a 16.7% stake in Scotia Gas Networks.