Most ordinary Americans won’t recognise the name, but Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has become a major player in US utility-scale wind and solar with ambitions in related long-haul transmission.

Copenhagen-based CIP, which manages four funds that invest in renewable energy projects globally, is seemingly everywhere these days in the US renewables space.

On Monday, CIP announced its Copenhagen Infrastructure II (CI II) fund will invest $80m equity for construction of the 162MW Bearkat II wind farm in West Texas it is co-developing with Dallas-based Tri Global Energy.