Unlike consumers, Brookfield Infrastructure is looking to get more than electricity and gas out of utility companies. An investor in infrastructure-related assets, Brookfield owns and operates utility, energy, timber, and transportation companies in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. It routinely acquires minority or majority interests in such companies, invests in capital and operational improvements to boost its assets' returns, and then sells off its ownership interests. Its assets include gas and electricity transmission companies in Chile, Canada, and the US; a rail system in Australia; and timberlands in the Pacific Northwest. Brookfield was formed in 2007.