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Our strategy

Our strategy

Our investments are designed to amplify government policy and to solve infrastructure financing problems. 

We want to partner with the private sector and local government to increase infrastructure investment in pursuit of our two strategic objectives: helping tackle climate change and supporting regional and local economic growth.

According to our triple bottom line: our investments must achieve one or both of our strategic objectives, generate a positive financial return and demonstrate additionality – focusing where there is an undersupply of private sector financing and reducing barriers to investment – thereby crowding-in private capital.

We invest across the infrastructure landscape, focusing primarily on economic infrastructure.

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Our strategy and sector snapshots

While our first Strategic Plan, published in 2022, remains the basis of our approach, a series of updates were published in 2023.

Our strategy update for private sector investments sets out more detail about our approach to tackling infrastructure financing challenges, and the areas in which we see opportunities to solve problems.

Our Local authority lending and advisory strategy update provides new detail on our local authority advisory services and lending offer, as well as the areas in which we are building our expertise in response to demand: retrofit, heat networks, transport and place-based growth

Our strategy update identified seven areas in which we see opportunities to tackle infrastructure financing problems. All can deliver on our triple bottom line and are significant parts of government’s ambition for the net zero transition and support local growth. 

We have published a document focusing on each of these areas, setting out our current view of the market, the problems we want to solve and how we can help. Our approach will adapt as market conditions change. The Bank is not limited to these areas, and we encourage all projects that meet our investment principles to contact us.
 

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Hear more on our sector snapshots from our Banking and Local Authority teams

Learn more about our approach to unlocking investment in key sectors including hydrogen, CCUS, storage, port infrastructure, heat networks, electric vehicles and zero-emission buses.

If you have a project that you would like to discuss with us please get in touch