The 'emerging' investment opportunities in UK renewables

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A decade ago, renewable energy in the UK would have conjured up images of two things: wind turbines and solar panels, since these were the main focus of media attention, government subsidies and investor inflows.

Ten years later, the investment universe for this sector has thankfully come on in leaps and bounds, providing excellent opportunities for investors to derive a stable income stream from a diversified array of renewable infrastructure assets. For example, anaerobic digestion (AD) technology is a growing sector within the UK energy market, using household food waste to produce clean biogas which can be used to power anything from delivery trucks to central heating. ESG Blog: Retail sustainable fund inflows hit fresh record The fundamentals of this fermentation process have actually ...

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