asset management

Liam Stoker reflects on last week's Solar Finance & Investment Europe conference, where investors, developers and asset owners gathered to hear how emerging trends will shape Europe's surging solar ecosystem in the coming years.

World's largest asset manager will make sustainability "integral" to its investment portfolios and divest from thermal coal by mid-2020, according to open letters by CEO Larry Fink.

Battery technologies hold most potential for nearly two-thirds of asset owners and managers polled by Aquila Capital.

AlsoEnergy and skytron have merged to create a global renewable energy software and hardware monitoring firm.

Technical advisory and asset management firm Greensolver has more than doubled its portfolio with the acquisition of UK asset manager ENTAP.

Greencoat Capital has won the race to acquire the highly sought-after portfolio of UK solar assets developed by Canadian Solar.

A fund of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) is to acquire NRG Energy, Inc.’s US renewable energy platform businesses and its stake in NRG Yield, Inc. (NYLD) for US$1.375 billion in cash.

Wirsol Energy has awarded contracts to CWP Asset Management to provide asset management services to two new solar PV projects in Australia.

Many developers with solar assets in India are looking to sell their portfolios. Some of them have been in the market for a long time and are under pressure from their investors to find an exit, according to the head of consultancy firm Bridge to India.

Leading asset management group BlackRock has taken its Renewable Income UK fund up to £1.1 billion (US$1.43 billion), making it one of the largest single investments in renewable energy.