BTU Group is a project developer, equity investor and asset manager focused on the midstream and downstream segments of the energy value chain in emerging markets. BTU’s investment strategy is anchored around the power industry and related synergistic opportunities in the gas, coal, and chemicals industries. Through its investment vehicles, BTU owns and operates 17 independent power and co-generation projects with gross capacity of 6,800 MW (2,700 net) located in China, South Korea, Taiwan, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates.

Marubeni was established in 1858. The company is a leading of the Japanese general trading houses (“sogo shosha”), with operations that encompass domestic, import, export, offshore trade and investment activities and ranging from the development of natural resources to the retail marketing.

In the power sector, Marubeni has developped a large-scale of IPP’s businesses all over the world.