Listed infrastructure companies have announced several notable transactions during the past two weeks. Energy provider SSE could invest more than $25 billion in electricity infrastructure in the United Kingdom and Ireland; VINCI subsidiary Seymour Whyte will build the central section of the M12 motorway linking the future Western Sydney International Airport to the Sydney area; Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. received approval for its acquisition of Kentucky Power Company and AEP Kentucky Transmission Company, Inc.; and CorEnergy Infrastructure Trust signed a memorandum of understanding to provide the transportation solution for a carbon sequestration project in California.
SSE’s plans to invest more than $25 billion through the end of the decade include investments in electricity generation and transmission. “The Net Zero Acceleration Program has been given added impetus by the pressing need for clean, indigenous sources of energy as a long-term solution to an over