Isabel O'Brien
Three statewide infrastructure funds were approved, totaling $7.5bn for energy, water and broadband projects.
Hiccups aside, CDPQ Infra’s audacious Réseau Express Métropolitain de Montréal is now 85% complete.
In a fast-paced sector, managers must take care to only invest in assets with true and long-lasting infrastructure characteristics, four infrastructure professionals tell us.
The financing gap for the energy transition will be a tough hurdle to overcome. Even if more capital is unlocked, the structures and incentives of private markets may prove to be too rigid to be effective.
Strategies seeking investments in themes like nature-based solutions, biodiversity and natural resources – or natural capital – have begun to sprout in various infrastructure asset managers’ mandates.
The vehicle is 50% over its initial $4bn target, making it one of the largest infrastructure credit vehicles in the private markets.
DigitalBridge has also secured $1bn to date for its credit vehicle, which has a pipeline of over 60 loans, according to CEO Marc Ganzi.
A recent report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis has found that coal and gas plants in the US’s largest power market are underperforming.
Private equity has largely taken a backseat to big corporates in the early stages of US hydrogen markets, and this round of grants from the Biden-Harris administration is no exception. That may change moving forward.
States and localities in the US are taking matters into their own hands to either implement or impede the Biden administration’s infrastructure plan.