News & Insights

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is playing an increasingly important role in supporting industrial transformation, enabling hard-to-abate sectors to reduce emissions while maintaining operational output.

Societe Generale acted as Arranger in InstaVolt’s £250 million debt facility, supporting one of the largest owner‑operators of rapid public chargers in the UK in the continued rollout of its EV charging platform.

Societe Generale acted as Underwriter in a senior portfolio financing of up to £825 million secured by Enviromena, one of the UK’s leading solar power developers. Among the largest solar financings completed in the country this year, the transaction will support the rapid delivery of a 1 GW solar pipeline.

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through a portfolio company Elgin, is raising up to £500 million of debt to fund a portfolio of solar PV and co located battery energy storage system (BESS) assets in the UK developed by Elgin.

In 2025, we continued our commitment to supporting communities across the UK.

As our five-year partnership with Shelter comes to an end, we’re proud to celebrate an important milestone: our staff, together with the SG UK Foundation, have raised over £2 million for Shelter’s Getting Real Opportunities of Work (GROW) programme.

3 questions for…. Michael Haigh, Global Head of Fixed Income and Commodities Research, Societe Generale, who talks on the hot topic of the year… gold.

Societe Generale acted as Financial Advisor to the GelreGroen consortium —comprised of BESIX, Dura Vermeer, HOCHTIEF and John Laing, which has successfully reached financial close for the ViA15 Public-Private Partnership (PPP) project in the Netherlands.

3 questions for... Florence Coeroli, Head of UK Distribution & Credit Solutions, Societe Generale, who reflects on the implications of the EU’s new securitisation proposals by noting that the reforms aim to direct more financing into the real economy through better-aligned capital requirements and reduced operational costs.