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Having consolidated its offshore wind activities in Reventus Power, CPP Investments’ Bill Rogers explains how the sector ‘plays into the capabilities we have’.

A big win in April’s Japanese capacity auction is the latest sign of I Squared Capital’s commitment to investing in the region, with more to come.

'Floating wind... feels exactly like UK solar did to us 15 years ago,' says Alex Brierley as the Sky Fund reaches the halfway mark of £1.5bn.

A large capacity auction in Japan has seen portfolio companies owned by Actis, Equis and I Squared Capital secure contracts in what is a notoriously tricky market to crack.

The project would be the largest ever undertaken by Actis, as it partners with Fortescue to secure green hydrogen know-how.

The strategy, which is targeting €1bn, has found early favour with LPs, with more than 20 already on board.

The 1.4GW Attentive Energy One and the 1.3GW Excelsior Wind projects are sunk by GE Vernova’s scrapping of 18MW turbine, but all may not be lost.

With one of the world’s largest pools of institutional capital, Japan is perennially on managers’ radars. But now it is re-emerging as an attractive place to invest.

Renewables assets are among the most important now – and platform investments have proved to be a popular way to access them in Asia-Pacific.

As ‘free money’ dries up, higher interest rates are reshaping critical dynamics of the renewable energy market, Zak Bentley and Daniel Kemp find.