Nuveen Infrastructure's 2025 Clean Energy Sustainability Report highlights the firm's progress in building a resilient, future-focused clean energy portfolio — and demonstrates how sustainability and long-term investment performance can go hand in hand.
Key highlights include:
- Delivering real impact: In 2025, the portfolio generated 6.42TWh of renewable electricity, enough to power approximately 1.2 million households. By doing so, we avoided over 1.7 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions, supported an estimated 1,175 direct jobs, conserved or restored 331 hectares of land, and contributed more than €115,000 in community funding.1
- Strategic growth and innovation: The year brought significant expansion. Nuveen entered two new markets — Ireland and South Korea — and made major advances in battery energy storage (BESS) through its Verdian platform, including the acquisition of a 493MW wind portfolio in Italy integrated with 576MWh of storage.
- Sustainability in practice: The report goes beyond headline numbers to explore how sustainability shapes aspects of asset management — from rigorous carbon data collection and biodiversity monitoring, to supply chain integrity, climate risk assessment and community investment.
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