National Wealth Fund pumps millions into battery storage developer Energy The National Wealth Fund has joined forces with two investment firms as part of a £500m venture to enhance the UK’s battery storage facilities. The consortium – including infrastructure asset manager Equitix and Australian pension fund Aware Super – will “build, own and operate grid-scale battery storage assets” via an investment in developer Eelpower Energy. [...]
How to make the national wealth fund work Opinion The national wealth fund must do more than just plug funding holes, through targeted and successive interventions it can help a project to reach a growing number of investors and momentum until finally it is no longer needed, says Zvi Wohlgemuth So far, many investors and equity and debt providers to energy transition projects in [...]
