EQT Warns of Exit Risks for Alternative Energy Assets Held by PE

EQT AB, Europe’s biggest private equity firm, says the path to exiting investments in clean-energy developers and operators faces a growing number of hurdles.

In many cases, such assets have become too big to be absorbed by the kinds of private or industrial buyers PE firms traditionally turn to when looking for an exit, according to Alex Darden, the head of EQT’s infrastructure investment for the Americas.