The country’s electricity market could be set for its biggest ownership shake-up in decades with bankers and private capital investors thinking about combining the third and fourth-largest players to create a $10 billion-plus company better able to fund the transition away from coal-fired power generation and compete with Origin Energy and AGL Energy.
EnergyAustralia and Alinta Energy’s owners, both Hong Kong-listed companies, have separately had different bankers running numbers on exit and co-investment options in the past three years, including a sale to private equity and/or a new investor to fund their renewable development pipelines.
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