Isabel O'Brien
Asset degradation, supply chain difficulties, grid setbacks and rapidly developing alternative technologies make these assets riskier than they appear.
The Japanese firm, alongside Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, is raising its first North American renewable energy fund via subsidiary Tyr Energy, targeting $2bn.
The new hire is the first at the partner-level for the credit team since its chair, Jennifer Powers, and co-founder, Reiner Boehning, left the firm in March 2022.
Mounting ESG scepticism is part of a healthy debate that could help eliminate the scourge of greenwashing once and for all, five industry insiders tell Infrastructure Investor.
In the energy world, storage has somehow become synonymous with the lithium-ion battery. But what other opportunities are out there for investors? Six guests – including developers, start-ups and infra GPs – weigh in.
The asset class needs to modernise and confront the tension between assets’ long lives and different investors’ liquidity needs.
With little leeway to continue as heavy carbon emitters, some data centres stand to become stranded assets if they can’t clean up their act.
High profile attacks have pushed physical safety and cybersecurity to the fore. As these risks keep changing, so do the costs of keeping critical infra secure.
The legislature passed bills to bolster the state's natural gas industry through a fund for 'dispatchable generation construction and improvements'. Bills that would have been most harmful to renewable energy did not pass.
Interest rates are up and the number of operational banks is down. While infra is not VC, it will not be wholly unaffected by the fallout.