News

• Brookfield's maiden infrastructure debt fund smashes target

  03 January 2018

  Brookfield Asset Management has closed its inaugural infrastructure debt fund, with almost half of the capital raised to be allocated to the renewables sector.

• Tessa Tennant awarded OBE for sustainability work

  03 January 2018

  Tessa Tennant, co-founder of the Jupiter Ecology fund, has been awarded an OBE for services to sustainable investment in the Queen's New Year Honours List.

• TRIG enters offshore wind with £80m investment

  02 January 2018

  UK-listed yieldco The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) has broken into the offshore wind market with an £80 million ($108 million) investment in the Sheringham Shoal project.

• €2.8bn infra fund attracts broad pension fund investment

  29 December 2017

  Danish fund manager Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has raised €2.8 billion ($3.35 billion) in a sixth close of its third energy fund, with investment largely from European pension funds.

• Allianz GI buys remaining 20% of German wind park

  28 December 2017

  German insurer Allianz's asset management business Allianz Global Investors (AGI) has bought out the remaining 20% of German wind park portfolio PNE Wind Partners. The sum of the transaction was not disclosed.

• Engie and CA Assurances team up to buy 500MW of renewables projects

  28 December 2017

  Insurer Credit Agricole Assurances and French utility Engie will jointly purchase about 500MW of renewables projects in 2018, the companies said in a statement.

• IREDA lays out plans for IPO

  27 December 2017

  State-run Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) is planning an initial public offering (IPO), a filing with Indian markets regulator Sebi reveals.

• People moves: BNP, SUSI and Innogy

  22 December 2017

  Innogy's CEO Peter Terium is leaving the company a week after the German energy group announced a profit warning.

• NY State Common and NY City Pension Funds make plans to cease fossil fuel investments

  22 December 2017

  Both the $200 billion New York State Common pension fund and the $181 billion New York City Pension Funds are to consider ceasing new investments in fossil fuels, their trustees have said.

• Statkraft exits UK offshore wind with £555m deal

  22 December 2017

  Statkraft has sold its stake in a British wind farm to a Chinese consortium for £555 million ($742 million), marking its exit from offshore wind.