Macquarie Asset Management, via Macquarie Super Core Infrastructure Fund, has agreed to acquire gas transmission system operator Thyssengas from DIF and EDF Invest.

Thyssengas operates a 4,400-kilometre underground network that supplies gas to around 50 municipal distribution centers, 160 industrial customers, and seven gas storage systems across Germany’s industrial heartland of North Rhine-Westphalia. Thyssengas is expected to play a central role in supporting Germany’s decarbonization plans to reduce nuclear and coal-fired generation by promoting the use of low-carbon gases by its customers within the region.

Macquarie has already owned Thyssengas between 2011 and 2016 via another of its managed infrastructure funds, which was acquired by DIF Infrastructure IV and EDF Invest.