Infrastructure

Investments in large-scale battery storage systems (BESS): New rules for prioritizing grid connections?

Battery Energy Storage System systems are attracting keen investment interest from institutional investors. This article is specifically dedicated to the current "flood" of grid connection requests for battery storage systems from transmission and distribution system operators in Germany.

Contract extended: Goldbeck remains facility management partner of the procurement office in Bonn

Goldbeck Facility Services, part of the construction and services company Goldbeck, which operates throughout Europe, and the Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior are extending and intensifying their cooperation.

Acquisition of Infinity Aviation

In this NEWSFLASH episode of Keeping it Real Assets, Julie Furber shares insights into Infinity Aviation’s business model, the exciting growth potential of Tier 2 and Tier 3 airports, and how we plan to create value with this platform opportunity.

A Dynamic Moment for Infrastructure Investing

Whether you're navigating tariffs, policy shifts, or valuation concerns, the message is clear: infrastructure is not just a safe haven, it's a strategic growth engine.

Infrastructure funds: niche business models as an admixture?

In the infrastructure sector, niche business models promise returns on innovation. Naturally, this is offset by increased risks. Tobias Moroni spoke with Dr. Andreas Peppel, Managing Director at Institutional Investment Consulting Partners, about whether and how such models can be useful.

Profit participation certificates: Attractive alternative

In view of rising interest rates and volatile markets, institutional investors are increasingly looking for alternative forms of investment. Profit participation certificates offer numerous advantages – especially for real estate and infrastructure projects.

Infrastructure Asset Class Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) – Some (technical) insights into practice

Large-scale battery storage systems (BESS plants) that can be monetized in the electricity and balancing power market are increasingly attracting the interest of institutional investors as an infrastructure asset class – most recently due to return expectations in the double digit range (proclaimed by fund providers).

NordVest: Infrastructure Fund for Transformation: Financing Solutions for Energy, Heat and Mobility Transition

UK Water: A Contrarian View

UK Water is going through a public and investor relations nightmare. Water nowadays has the toughest PR amongst infrastructure sectors as the public tends to get much more emotional about water compared to other utilities.

Energy transition in open-ended real estate funds – classification of the innovations in the Economic Development Act (StoFöG)

Open-ended real estate funds have been encountering legal grey areas in the integration of renewable energies for years. With the new Location Promotion Act (StoFöG), the legislator wants to eliminate these uncertainties.

Trend survey on real assets: Majority plans acquisitions in the next six months

The results show that despite ongoing uncertainties, many market participants expect a revival in transaction activity and are at the same time planning concrete adjustments to their portfolios.

Solvency II vs. Solvency UK: Two paths, one goal – and how products can best match

Heat transition in Zwickau: NEXT Generation’s infrastructure fund invests in wood energy plant

This is a plant that produces electricity, heat and, as a by-product, biochar from biomass, in this case wood chips, and biochar.

Real infrastructure’s revival

A change in interest rates is bringing a renewed appetite for core and core-plus strategies, says Arjun Infrastructure Partners’ founder Surinder Toor, and the mid-market is also on LP radars

Arjun enters data centre sector with stake in Data4 assets

Supported by Arjun’s latest fund and co-investors, this transaction marks Arjun’s inaugural investment in the data centre sector.

DRIVEN completes life science project development “FUHUB” in Berlin and leases 2,670 square meters to BImA

BImA rents space for the Federal Environment Agency. Handover takes place according to schedule. Germany's first sustainable life science property as a timber hybrid construction.

Northern Horizon reinforces its market leadership in social infrastructure in Denmark with the acquisition of a portfolio of new aged care homes

Northern Horizon is acquiring a portfolio of aged care homes from AP Ejendomme, a subsidiary of AP Pension, a major Danish pension company. The transaction value exceeds DKK 500 million (EUR 67m).

Generative AI in data centres part 3: How GenAI shapes AI sovereignty and data centre investment

In this final instalment, we consider how capital flows for data centre investment are shaped by AI sovereignty and geopolitics, and how the evolution of GenAI will increase their impact.

Proposals of the EU Commission for amended implementing provisions of the Solvency II Directive: What is included for ELTIFs and other “Lower Risk” funds as preferential “Long-Term Equity Investments”

Following the EIOPA drafts published on 10 July 2025, the EU Commission has now also submitted its proposals for amended Level II implementing provisions to the Solvency II Directive for consultation on 17 July 2025.

Generative AI in data centres part 2: The evolution of GenAI and data centre investment implications

KGAL acquires Spanish solar park for Software AG – Foundation

Grünwald near Munich, 22 July 2025 – KGAL Investment Management has acquired a solar park in Andalusia in southern Spain on behalf of the Software AG Foundation (SAGST). The plant with a capacity of 60.5 megawatt peak (MWp) has been feeding electricity into the public grid since June 2025. The project was developed by long-standing KGAL partner BayWa r.e. The transaction marks another milestone in the expansion of the foundation's sustainable infrastructure portfolio.

Acquisition of Hoegh EVI

On 30 April 2025 Igneo formally acquired a 50% stake in the Norway headquartered, Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FRSU) operator Hoegh EVI.

Data center opened in the “Hulb-West” industrial park in Böblingen

Periskop Development GmbH, an international investment consultant headquartered in Berlin, is developing the Hulb-West site in Böblingen, which originally covered around 15 hectares, into a sustainable commercial location on behalf of the owners.

Global Listed Infrastructure: A defensive asset class with opportunities in 2025

Globally listed infrastructure (GLI) companies will once again become the focus of strategic investors in 2025.