Total power industry private equity deals in Q1 2019 worth $3.17bn were announced globally, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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The value marked a decrease of 55% over the previous quarter and a drop of 63.9% when compared with the last four-quarter average, which stood at $8.77bn.

Comparing deals value in different regions of the globe, Europe held the top position, with total announced deals in the period worth $1.9bn. At the country level, the US topped the list in terms of deal value at $931m.

In terms of volumes, Europe emerged as the top region for power industry private equity deals globally, followed by North America and then Middle East and Africa.

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The top country in terms of private equity deals activity in Q1 2019 was the US with 12 deals, followed by the UK with five and The Netherlands with four.

In 2019, as of the end of Q1 2019, power private equity deals worth $3.17bn were announced globally, marking a decrease of 73.2% year on year.

Power industry private equity deals in Q1 2019: Top deals

The top five power industry private equity deals accounted for 63.1% of the overall value during Q1 2019.

The combined value of the top five power industry private equity deals stood at $2bn, against the overall value of $3.17bn recorded for the quarter. The top announced power industry private equity deal tracked by GlobalData in Q1 2019 was Evergrande Health Industry Group's $930m private equity deal with National Electric Vehicle Sweden.

In second place was the $349.48m private equity deal with Joulz Diensten by 3i Infrastructure and in third place was Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets’ $304.8m private equity deal with Magma Energy Sweden.

The $260m private equity deal with Miya Luxemburg Holdings by Bridgepoint Capital Group and Evergrande New Energy Power Technology (Shenzhen)Limited's private equity deal with Shanghai CENAT New EnergyLtd for $155.99m held fourth and fifth positions, respectively.

This analysis considers only announced and completed deals from the GlobalData financial deals database and excludes all terminated and rumoured deals. Country and industry are defined according to the headquarters and dominant industry of the target firm. The term 'acquisition' refers to both completed deals and those in the bidding stage.

GlobalData tracks real-time data concerning all merger and acquisition, private equity/venture capital and asset transaction activity around the world from thousands of company websites and other reliable sources.

More in-depth reports and analysis on all reported deals are available for subscribers to GlobalData’s deals database.