• Neoen renewables portfolio financing, Australia

    French renewables developer Neoen has recently secured a $724 million portfolio financing on its renewable energy assets in Australia

  • British Sustainable Infrastructure II, UK

    As local authorities across the UK increasingly declare climate and nature emergencies, Gresham House’s second British Sustainable Infrastructure strategy aims to invest in the technologies and services necessary to build a future economy resilient to these crises

  • Baltic Eagle Offshore Wind Farm, Germany

    The 476MW Baltic Eagle fixed-foundation offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea, off Germany’s Pomeranian coast, reached financial close in March, becoming the first large European OWF to firm up project financing in 2024 with the sector poised for a stark expansion by the end of the decade

  • Acquisition of Kenter, Netherlands

    Pension funds APG and the Ontario Municipal Employees’ Retirement System have collaborated for a long time, making the acquisition of Dutch metering business Kenter, which closed in January, a natural fit

  • Botswana's first utility scale solar, Mmadinare

    The Mmadinare cluster solar complex – Botswana’s first-utility scale solar project – being delivered by Norwegian renewable power producer Scatec will eventually have a capacity of 100MW and it reached financial close at the end of 2023

  • Infra Dig – Hamish Lea-Wilson, Igneo IP

    The role of long-term investors in infrastructure and energy forms a central tenet of this latest episode of the IJGlobal podcast – Infra Dig – in a far-ranging interview that spans Europe. Hamish Lea-Wilson, a partner at Igneo Infrastructure Partners, speaks openly

  • SunZia Wind & Transmission: 18 years in the making

    The largest clean energy infrastructure project in US history closed just before the new year started. Pattern Energy inked $11 billion in financing for its 500+ mile transmission line connecting more than 3.5GW of stranded wind resources – SunZia

  • Athens International Airport IPO, Greece

    Athens International Airport successfully listed on the Greek stock exchange, ATHEX, this February, bringing an end to its slew of unsuccessful attempts

  • Acquisition of Equans Urban Energy, UK

    A consortium of Swiss Life Asset Managers and Schroders Greencoat took over Equans Urban Energy in the UK in December for an enterprise value of £260 million, becoming the owner of the country's largest portfolio of heating and cooling concessions

  • University of Sussex West Slope PPP, England

    The University of Sussex celebrated financial close late last year on a £210.5 million PPP-style transaction to upgrade and increase its accommodation services to transform the student experience

  • Quinbrook Renewables Impact Fund, UK

    Quinbrook’s Renewables Impact Fund is aiming to address the need for investment in renewable energy infrastructure in the UK, to facilitate the scale-up and deployment of the generation capacity required to reach net zero targets

  • IJGlobal Regional Report – Middle East & Africa, FY 2023

    Infrastructure finance activity across the Middle East and Africa was down over the course of the full-year 2023 when held against the 2022 results, but this is expected to change in the coming year as Gulf States ramp up activity

  • Thanaleng Dry Port PPP, Laos

    The Thanaleng dry port public-private partnership achieved financial close in December 2023 ahead of its full commissioning later this year

  • Acquisition of Statera, UK

    EQT’s acquisition of Statera Energy was exactly the type of deal the fund manager had been pursuing for years, Benjamin Bygott-Webb, managing director at EQT, tells IJGlobal

  • Condor II e-buses, Chile

    DigitalBridge group InfraBridge in October achieved financial close on a transaction acquiring almost 700 e-buses for Santiago’s public transport system – expanding on a deal made in collaboration with Enel X in 2020

  • Damietta Port CT II, Egypt

    With more than 80% of global trade being transported by sea and containers dominating international commercial shipping, high-quality port infrastructure has become essential... and Egypt's Damietta Port second container terminal project is a perfect example of this trend

  • London CIV’s new CIO

    The pension pool for London’s Local Government Pension Schemes, London Collective Investment Vehicle, is beginning the year under the leadership of a new CIO

  • Energy transition – time to get the finger out

    Conversations with the industry this week leave this infra hack considerably more concerned at the end than the start… worrying about hitting Net Zero targets, the pace of delivery of renewables projects and – pretty much – energy transition in general. But most of all, the need to get the finger out

  • IJGlobal Regional Report – Asia Pacific, FY 2023

    Infrastructure finance across Asia Pacific marked a marginal increase in activity over the course of the 2023 calendar year, logging improved stats when held against full-year 2022, according to the IJGlobal database