FTAI Infrastructure to grow freight rail platform with $1b acquisition of Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co. by Kali Persall | Aug 8, 2025 FTAI Infrastructure has plans to purchase The Wheeling Corp., the owner of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co. (W&LE), for a cash consideration of $1.05 billion.
GFL Environmental’s Green Infrastructure Partners announces $3b recapitalization with backing from ECP by Kali Persall | Aug 8, 2025 Green Infrastructure Partners, a vertically integrated infrastructure company, has penned a definitive agreement with funds managed by Energy Capital Partners to recapitalize its business at an enterprise value of C$4.25 billion ($3 billion).
Adapture Renewables launches first battery storage projects in Texas by Kali Persall | Aug 8, 2025 Adapture Renewables has brought two battery energy storage system (BESS) projects online in Texas, representing the company’s first operational projects in its energy-storage portfolio.
Cox pays $4.2b for Iberdrola’s assets in Mexico by Kali Persall | Aug 7, 2025 Grupo Cox, a Spanish multinational water and energy company, has acquired Iberdrola’s assets in Mexico for $4.2 billion, representing one of the largest cross-border energy deals of the year.
Meridiam-led consortium reaches financial close on SR 400 Express Lanes Project in Georgia by Kali Persall | Aug 7, 2025 A consortium led by Meridiam and consisting of Acciona and ACS Infrastructure has reached financial close on its SR 400 Express Lanes Project in Georgia.
GreenGo teams up with Gruppo Altea and Industrie D’Amico to develop four PV plants in Italy by Kali Persall | Aug 7, 2025 GreenGo, an Italian renewable-energy plant developer and independent power producer (IPP), has launched an industrial partnership with Gruppo Altea and Industrie D’Amico Srl to build four new utility-scale photovoltaic plants located across Sicily and the Marche region.
HSBC Asset Management names Karim Ghannam global head of real assets, alternatives by Kali Persall | Aug 7, 2025 Karim Ghannam has joined HSBC Asset Management (HSBC AM) as global head of real assets and head of alternatives, Singapore. He will report to Joanna Munro.
Investors show greater risk tolerance for data centers by Andrea Zander | Aug 7, 2025 The data center sector is seeing surging demand from companies involved in artificial intelligence development and is attracting more institutional capital, according to CBRE’s 2025 Global Data Center Investor Intentions Survey, which surveyed 92 major investors worldwide.
Schroders Greencoat kicks off partnership with JERA Nex via U.S. solar portfolio buy by Kali Persall | Aug 6, 2025 Schroders Greencoat, the specialist energy-transition manager of Schroders Capital, has snapped up a 50 percent stake in renewable-energy developer JERA Nex’s U.S. solar portfolio.
Zenobē unveils plans for 68MW battery storage project in Scotland by Kali Persall | Aug 6, 2025 Zenobē, a U.K. owner and operator of grid-scale battery storage, has announced plans for The Shetland Standby Project, a 68-megawatt battery energy storage system (BESS) in Lerwick in Shetland, Scotland.
InfraVia-backed Green Utility acquires Italian solar PV portfolio from Basalt Infrastructure Partners by Released | Aug 6, 2025 Green Utility, a solar PV platform focused on distributed generation and self-consumption solutions for commercial and industrial (C&I) clients in Italy, has entered into a binding agreement with Basalt Infrastructure Partners to acquire Mareccio Energia, an Italian solar PV portfolio.
EnCap-backed Quantica Infrastructure launches flagship development platform in Montana by Kali Persall | Aug 6, 2025 Quantica Infrastructure has introduced its flagship development platform, Big Sky Digital Infrastructure (BSDI), a 5,000-acre energy and digital infrastructure campus located outside Billings, Mont.
GIP president and COO Raj Rao hones in on four major trends driving infrastructure investment by Kali Persall | Aug 6, 2025 In a recent Q&A with Stacey Mullin, BlackRock’s global chief of staff, Raj Rao, president and COO of Global Infrastructure Partners, shared four major trends he sees as driving infrastructure investment.
NextEnergy Capital takes ownership of largest agrivoltaic PV project in Italy by Kali Persall | Aug 5, 2025 NextEnergy Capital has acquired the largest agrivoltaic PV (AgriPV) project in Italy to date via its NextPower V ESG fund.
Project financing arranged for Cross Trails BESS project in ERCOT market by Kali Persall | Aug 5, 2025 Energy Vault, a company that develops, deploys and operates utility-scale energy storage solutions, has locked in $18 million of project financing from Eagle Point Credit Management to support its 57-megawatt/114-megawatt-hour Cross Trails battery energy storage system.
