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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.
The investment comes shortly after the firm sold its managed share in LBC Tank Terminals.
The bioenergy investor is also believed to be in talks regarding investments in projects recently backed by the UK’s CfD regime.
The firm’s first infrastructure investment outside the UK and the Nordics is part of a “wider strategy” in the European gas sector.
The move is the UK-based scheme’s third investment in a Partners Group infra vehicle, having previously ploughed £96.7m into the firm’s infra funds.
Described by the Danish government as a bellwether in 2009, the 21MW site is now being touted to local and foreign investors.
The shadow chancellor’s promise to end the ‘scandal’ was described by critics as ‘misplaced nostalgia’.
The 18.2MW portfolio owned by JPMorgan’s Sonnedix is part of a wider 136MW set bought from Centerbridge earlier this year.
The pair will seek investors for the project, which follows the infra fund’s solar tie-up in Egypt and the addition of two further countries to the platform.
The British pension fund has backed new vehicles managed by Temporis and Resonance, as well as increasing its allocation to existing investment in PIP.
The 600MW plant will be one of the world’s largest in what is a major strategy shift for the Italian investor.
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