Norway wealth fund makes first investment in US renewable energy assets

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Reuters

Tue, March 3, 2026 astatine 6:55 AM CST 1 min read

OSLO, March 3 (Reuters) - Norway's sovereign wealthiness fund, the world's largest, has ‌made its archetypal concern successful renewable ‌energy assets successful the United States, buying a ​33.3% involvement successful a portfolio of 17 star plants and 5 onshore upwind powerfulness facilities, it said connected Tuesday.

Norges Bank ‌Investment Management (NBIM) volition ⁠pay $425 cardinal for its equity stake, with a full endeavor ⁠value of the portfolio of astir $2.6 billion, it said successful a statement.

The assets were ​located successful ​the United ​States, an NBIM spokesperson ‌said.

British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) and Brookfield volition each instrumentality a 33.3% involvement successful the portfolio, which has a capableness of immoderate 2.3 gigawatts (GW) of power, ‌NBIM said.

BCI separately said ​the assets would beryllium ​owned by ​the 3 groups done a ‌jointly held company, Northview Energy, ​which could ​invest a further $1.5 cardinal of equity successful further assets successful the United ​States and ‌Canada.

(Reporting by Nora Buli successful Oslo ​and Anna Ringstrom successful Stockholm, editing ​by Terje Solsvik)

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