Evergaz and Meridiam strengthen their capacity for investing in the biogas sector with a €51 million transaction designed to finance their French projects.

The Raxio Group (“Raxio”), a premier pan-African data centre developer and operator, and Meridiam, a global developer, asset and fund manager specialising in sustainable infrastructure and energy transition projects today announced a partnership to deploy a network of data centres across the African continent. Under this agreement, Meridiam will invest $48 million to support the continued deployment of data centres in Africa, where both Raxio and Meridiam already have strong local presence. Meridiam’s investment is made alongside Raxio’s founding equity partner, Roha Group who established Raxio in 2018, and has been funding the company since inception.

Best for... • Positive engagement with local community stakeholder • Partnering with local community groups to embed sustainable economic and social initiatives • Reducing carbon emissions and increasing access to green electricity

To help achieve the target that France’s Ministry for the Ecological Transition has set itself of installing 100,000 charging terminals, thereby speeding up the switch over to electric vehicles on as wide a scale as possible, Carrefour is making mobility easier for its customers by bringing electric vehicle charging infrastructure to all of its hypermarkets. Altogether, nearly 2000 charging points will be rolled out between now and 2023 in partnership with Meridiam, the leading long-term investor specialising in essential infrastructure.

Meridiam has reached Financial Close for the Fresno Central Utility Plant P3 project, a 33-year project aiming to modernize and maintain Fresno State’s energy utility system.

Infrastructure Investor‘s annual global awards are the only infrastructure honours voted for by the industry. These prizes are great recognitions of the firm’s successes and milestones during the course of 2020.