Anbaric is considering a $4bn investment in TenneT, which is owned by the Dutch government, after the US group's chief executive Edward Krapels met recently with Dutch finance minister Maxime Verhagen and German environment and economy ministers Peter Altmaier and Philipp Rösler, according to a report in WirtschaftsWoche magazine.

Although a US citizen, Krapels is a native of The Netherlands. The leaked discussions came via sources close to Rösler.

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