Benjamin Roa

Aquila Capital

Aquila Capital is part of Aquila Group, an investment and asset development company focused on generating and managing essential assets on behalf of its clients. By investing in clean energy and sustainable infrastructure, Aquila Group contributes to the global energy transition and strengthens the world's infrastructure backbone. The company initiates, develops, and manages essential assets along their entire value chain and lifetime. Currently, Aquila Capital manages EUR 14.7 billion on behalf of institutional investors worldwide. Our primary objective is to generate performance for our clients by managing the complexity of essential assets. Established in 2001 by Dieter Rentsch and Roman Rosslenbroich, Aquila Group is founder- and partner-owned. The shareholders are backed by a minority stake of Daiwa, one of the largest Asian investors. Over the last two decades, Aquila Group and its subsidiaries explored, projected and engaged in meaningful trends for mankind and our planet. We have created a pan-European real asset portfolio by combining our industrial excellence with fiduciary capital management principles. We are driven by our highly experienced investment and asset management teams to fulfil the return expectations of our investors. Today, the company manages wind energy, solar PV and hydropower assets of 13.9 GW capacity. Additionally, 1.9 million square metres of sustainable real estate and green logistics projects have been completed or are under development. Aquila Group also invests in energy efficiency, carbon forestry and data centres. And more is to come. Aquila Group has been carbon neutral since 2006 and aims to act carbon negative. Sustainability has always been part of our value system and is an integral part of our investment strategies, processes and management of our assets. Aquila Group has around 650 employees and 17 offices in 16 countries worldwide. Our employees are our most valuable asset and come from 56 nations.