EU Renewable Energy News - Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, that just announced a Flagship Fund of 12 billion euros for energy infrastructure projects, eyes Western Europe as a low-risk region.
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) invests in long-term contracted energy infrastructure with the objective of generating attractive risk-adjusted returns and long-term, stable, and predictable cash flows with low correlation to the business cycle.
As Portugal is positioning itself as a Green Hydrogen Hub for the EU in the Sines region, Danish fund Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has partnered with Madoqua Renewable and Dutch Power2X to build a €1bn project in Portugal that will produce 50,000 tons of Green Hydrogen annually.
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners is also investing EUR 8 billion in offshore wind energy in Figueira da Foz, Portugal. The Nortada project by the Danish investment fund is to produce 2 GW and it will be the first large-scale offshore wind farm in Portugal.
The geographical focus of the CIP Funds are low-risk OECD countries in Western Europe, North America (excluding Mexico) and developed Asia Pacific (including Taiwan and Singapore), reflecting CIP’s strategy to mitigate regulatory risks by choosing stable regulatory and political regions and favorable regulatory sub-segments.
The fifth CIP investment fund focuses on greenfield investments within large-scale renewable energy infrastructure. It has a global reach, with diversified investments across technologies.
Founded in 2012, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners P/S (CIP) is the world’s largest fund manager within greenfield renewable energy investments and a global leader in offshore wind. The funds managed by CIP focus on investments in offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, biomass and energy-from-waste, transmission and distribution, reserve capacity, storage, advanced bioenergy, and Power-to-X.
CIP manages 13 funds and has to date raised approximately EUR 32 billion for investments in energy and associated infrastructure from more than 180 international institutional investors.