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BlackRock and Temasek's JV leads $150m funding round for thermal battery business
22 February 2024BlackRock and Temasek joint-venture, Decarbonization Partners, has led a $150 million Series B funding round for Antora Energy.
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Investec launches Global Environment Fund
25 February 2019Investec Asset Management has launched a fund to invest in public companies that benefit from the trend towards decarbonisation.
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People Moves: Columbia Threadneedle, Natixis, NBIM, BMO Capital Markets, Hong Kong Green Finance Association, FRC, Pattern Energy and NextEra Energy Partners
04 January 2019Columbia Threadneedle boosts responsible investment team
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NextEra yieldco to pay $1.3bn for renewables assets in dropdown deal
07 September 2018NextEra 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.
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Climate Action 100+ expands its reach and attracts new backers
04 July 2018An 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".
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Canadian pension fund buys $575m of renewables assets
03 April 2018The 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).
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Quinbrook expands with NextEra wind portfolio acquisition
19 January 2018Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has acquired a 223MW wind power portfolio from NextEra Energy Resources for an undisclosed sum.
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NRG Yield attracting interest from several potential bidders
16 August 2017Private 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.
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North American electricity utilities trail European counterparts in transition to low-carbon economy
09 June 2017Electricity utilities are, on average, not reducing emissions fast enough to be in line with a scenario that would limit climate change to the Paris Agreement's 2°C target, a Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) study has found.
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New shoots, old roots; the return of the yieldco
23 November 2016After a disastrous year in 2015, US yieldcos have seen their share prices rebound. Has the model turned a corner, asks Hamza Ali