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• BlackRock and Temasek's JV leads $150m funding round for thermal battery business

  22 February 2024

  BlackRock and Temasek joint-venture, Decarbonization Partners, has led a $150 million Series B funding round for Antora Energy.

• News Round-up: KKR, KGAL and plant-based meat

  03 November 2020

  KKR in $1.4bn renewables deal with NextEra Energy

• Investec launches Global Environment Fund

  25 February 2019

  Investec Asset Management has launched a fund to invest in public companies that benefit from the trend towards decarbonisation.

• People Moves: Columbia Threadneedle, Natixis, NBIM, BMO Capital Markets, Hong Kong Green Finance Association, FRC, Pattern Energy and NextEra Energy Partners

  04 January 2019

  Columbia Threadneedle boosts responsible investment team

• NextEra yieldco to pay $1.3bn for renewables assets in dropdown deal

  07 September 2018

  NextEra Energy Resources has agreed to sell a 1.39GW portfolio of renewables assets to its parent company’s yieldco, for a sum of $1.275 billion.

• Climate Action 100+ expands its reach and attracts new backers

  04 July 2018

  An additional 61 companies have been added to Climate Action 100+ list, increasing the reach of the investor-backed initiative that aims to engage with "systemically important greenhouse gas emitters".

• Canadian pension fund buys $575m of renewables assets

  03 April 2018

  The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has agreed to purchase six renewables projects from NextEra Energy Partners for a sum of CAD741 million ($575 million).

• Quinbrook expands with NextEra wind portfolio acquisition

  19 January 2018

  Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has acquired a 223MW wind power portfolio from NextEra Energy Resources for an undisclosed sum.

• NRG Yield attracting interest from several potential bidders

  16 August 2017

  Private equity groups, infrastructure investors, a power utility and a sovereign wealth fund are said to be among the potential bidders for NRG Yield and other assets to be sold by US energy company NRG.

• US Yieldcos: escaping the parent trap

  23 June 2017

  A recent spate of M&As in the yieldco space seems to point to a new chapter in the model's evolution. Hamza Ali reports