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IJGlobal ESG Awards – The Judging Panel
Renewables Asia PacificWe are delighted to announce the judging panel for the inaugural IJGlobal ESG Awards that were launched last week
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Lotus wind portfolio financing, Vietnam
Renewables Asia PacificAs investors in Vietnam scramble to include their power projects in the country's now-delayed PDP8, the $252 million Lotus portfolio financing of wind farms on the north-central coast recently achieved financial close
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Tough life awaits PJM peakers as long-awaited auction disappoints
Renewables North AmericaAfter two years of delay due to uncertainty over the Minimum Offer Price Rule, PJM Interconnection has finally concluded its Base Residual Auction for delivery year 2022 / 2023, although results from the highly-anticipated auction have fallen short of market participants' expectations
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Aquila adds third LSE energy efficiency fund to mix as market heats up
Renewables EuropeAquila has introduced a third major energy efficiency fund to the London Stock Exchange, raising £100 million from its IPO
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The value of risk... explicit pricing of risks can help
Renewables North AmericaExplicit pricing of physical risks can help promote investments in the infrastructure sector. David Espinoza, senior principal at Geosyntec Consulting, Washington, DC, delves into his alternative for discounted cash flow modelling
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Banks and investors begin to walk the ESG talk
Renewables EuropeESG considerations are starting to carry real financial weight, as is visible from the flurry of recent ESG-linked financings in the infrastructure market
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The HIPpest project on the street
Renewables EuropeA curious renewable energy / transmission project has dinged the European radar at IJGlobal… but while it’s always nice to write about a new deal being rolled out, this one has an uncomfortably similar scent to a project of a few years back
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Cost of capital king Equitix sets sights on NA market
Renewables EuropeEquitix has hired a senior adviser as part of its North American expansion
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Vietnam DPPA: a great move forward, but how?
Renewables Asia PacificRenewable energy gencos and corporate power consumers have been increasingly keen to participate in Vietnam’s Direct Power Purchase Agreement trial programme. DPPA will allow developers to mitigate the risk that the monopoly power system operator may be unable to offtake power by selling electricity to corporate offtakers, signalling the transition to a more open electricity market
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APAC infra fundraising – death by FIFO?
Renewables Asia PacificIn recent years, Asia-Pacific has been one of the fastest developing markets for infrastructure funds. As the region increasingly opens up to global investments, its economies and infra development are growing significantly
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PF bankers assess Chilean corporate supply deals
Renewables Latin AmericaAs Chile's largest developers secure supply contracts with corporate offtakers and search for corporate financing for their portfolios, project finance bankers wonder whether there will be any mandates left in the long run that are not corporate-based
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Hybrid portfolio financing, Rajasthan
Renewables Asia PacificAdani Green Energy’s earnings call with debt investors on Monday is likely to highlight one of the company’s most consequential transactions to close in FY2021. AGEL sealed a $1.35 billion senior debt facility with participation from 12 international banks to finance India's largest hybrid cluster development
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Kom Ombo Solar PV, Egypt
Renewables MENAEgypt had been attracting utility-scale wind farm deals in recent years and it was only a matter of time before the country’s renewables sector would be bolstered further by the spread of solar PV of a similar size from across the Red Sea
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Biden's shot in the arm for US clean power
Renewables North AmericaPresident Joe Biden has announced an ambitious $2 trillion infrastructure plan that includes a wide-reaching set of initiatives aimed at supercharging the country's clean power and renewables industry
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Mutkalampi Wind Farm, Finland
Renewables EuropeEarlier in the month Neoen reached financial close on the €478 million Mutkalampi wind farm – Finland’s largest onshore wind project to date, with commissioning set for late 2022
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Awards – a flattering market reflection?
Renewables EuropeHaving spent the last couple of weeks wading through submissions for IJGlobal Awards 2020 and now having launched into Judgment Day sessions… it’s with a somewhat giddy head that fingers hit keyboard for the Friday missive
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Secondary funds market primed for a bumper year
Renewables EuropeThe pandemic temporarily threw a wrench in the works, but an inflow of new capital is expected to drive further growth in the secondary market for stakes in infrastructure funds
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Sitara Solar Energy, India
Renewables Asia PacificSoft copy proposals were due at the end of last week on the government-backed Seci's Tranche-IV, which is the procurement of IPPs to develop up to 1,785MW of grid-connected solar power in north western India. The deadline arrives a month after the project company of a nearly $70 million solar power plant in northern India reached financial close
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The next generation of data for infrastructure investors – Special Report
Renewables EuropeTo the usual “How was Covid for you?” the team at EDHECinfra knows not to smile too much. “When we launched the commercial activities of EDHECinfra in 2019,” recalls director and founder Frederic Blanc-Brude, “one of us said something like ‘what we need now is a good crisis!’”