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Nicolas Escallon article in Infrastructure Investor: Latin America’s power gap: a big and underplayed infrastructure opportunity
21 July 2026
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Nicolas Escallon, Managing Director and Co-Head of Latin America, Energy Infrastructure at Actis, authored a guest comment in Infrastructure Investor on the scale of Latin America’s power supply gap and the investment opportunity it is creating.
Nicolas argues that structural undersupply, resilient demand and improving financing conditions are reshaping the risk-return profile of Latin American energy infrastructure, with hybrid systems combining renewables, storage and flexible generation emerging as the region’s investment blueprint.
Click here to read the full article online and read on below for a snippet of Nicolas’ commentary.
Nicolas Escallon, Managing Director, Energy Infrastructure at Actis, commented:
“Blending renewables, storage and, in some cases, gas-fired capacity is increasingly becoming the blueprint for investment across Latin America. It reflects a shift away from viewing technologies in isolation and towards building systems that can deliver both sustainability and security.
“The combination of structural undersupply, resilient demand and improving financing options is creating what we believe to be a compelling backdrop for investment, one we think contrasts sharply with the more saturated conditions seen in many developed markets.”
