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SSE plc has sold a 25% stake in its SSEN Transmission SPV, which operates the energy transmission network in the north of Scotland, to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board for $1.77bn. The deal was completed in December 2022 and achieved a price-to-sales of 9.16. This is above the 3.1 average for UK network utilities sales (absolute last five-year mean), according...

In a year where global stocks and bonds lost more than $30tn[1] on account of high inflation, rising interest rates, and the ongoing war in Ukraine, unlisted infrastructure equity has fared well. Private infra debt finished the year slightly better off than corporate bonds but still heavily impacted by the rise of market yields. The infra300® index, which tracks a...

The Q4 2022 release of the EDHECinfra indices presents our updated views in the light of recent government intervention in the European and UK energy market due to the ongoing gas supply disruption. This report updates the Q3 2022 report and is presented following the TICCS® taxonomy of infrastructure companies. Over the course of the fourth quarter of 2022, European...

The cut in gas flows from Russia to Europe has had a significant impact on the electricity market in Europe, but not for reasons that you might expect. In response to the cut in flows, the European Commission mandated all countries to increase their gas storage. As a result, there has been significant activity since March to fill all gas...

A multi-decade high inflation, aggressive monetary policy tightening by the central banks, and the effects of the Russia/Ukraine war, have led to a highly volatile first three quarters of 2022, and infrastructure, though more resilient, wasn’t completely immune to all these effects. The infra300® index, which tracks a representative global sample of unlisted infrastructure equity investments worth more than USD...

The cut in gas flows from Russia to Europe has had a significant impact on the electricity market in Europe, but not for reasons that you might expect. In response to the cut in flows, the European Commission mandated all countries to increase their gas storage. As a result, there has been significant activity since March to fill all gas...