Anne-Louise Stranne Petersen
GPs are vital for the ongoing transition โ not just because of the money, but because they deliver.
Investments in natural gas assets are welcomed back into polite society when framed as 'transition' assets.
European GPs are embracing the opportunities in waste management. And the sectorโs diversified value chain allows them to choose the risk-return profile that is right for them.
The new strategy could raise close to โฌ5bn. It will deploy capital to help scale up โthe infra of the futureโ, Asรญs Echรกniz, head of Transition Infrastructure Europe, says.
Eurazeo's first transition fund overcame LP hesitation to close oversubscribed atย โฌ663m, with anotherย โฌ43m in co-investments.
Industriens Pensionโs head of real assets, Jan รstergaard, would like to see a contracts-for-difference model re-introduced by the EU to mitigate power price volatility risk.
The strategy, which is targeting โฌ1bn, has found early favour with LPs, with more than 20 already on board.
The asset managerโs second transition fund, which on Monday reached a $10bn first close, has a โrobust pipelineโ and could invest in subsectors BGTF I has not, Jehangir Vevaina tells us.
Journalists from affiliate title Infrastructure Investor hit their highlights from Monday's ESG and Sustainability Forum, part of the Infrastructure Investor Network Global Summit in Berlin this week.
Global co-head of infra Tavis Cannell sees a market โstill in its infancyโ, as biomethane seeks to replace natural gas.











