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Webinar: IJGlobal Canadian Power Market Discussion
Power North AmericaIJGlobal this week hosted its first webinar, this one focused on the power market in Canada – with a primary focus on Alberta
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Termocandelaria Power Limited, Colombia
Power Latin AmericaIn January 2020, Colombia's Termocandelaria Power Limited built on its success in the international bond market with a $186 million tap to finance the conversion of a 20-year old peaker into what it says will be the country’s most efficient gas-fired generation project
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M&A in the Covid-19 epoch: APAC perspective
Power Asia PacificCovid-19's impact appeared first in listed markets. Investors in late January were slowly pricing in the disruptions. Today, however, a popular Asia Pacific infrastructure index shows not a prolonged bloodbath but glimmers of a V-shaped recovery. IJGlobal reports on the pandemic's influence on origination, structuring and execution in the region's private market
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Falling off a cliff – infra style
Power EuropeAs you look out there – virtually, of course, as you shouldn’t be going further than the end of your road unless it’s to load up with a couple of hundred-weight of bog roll – it’s a curiously vibrant market… for now. But dark clouds are massing...
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Hydrogen: unlocking the green grid
Power EuropeLarge-scale hydrogen production could rapidly accelerate the transition to carbon neutrality. No country has yet developed a regulatory framework for this emerging sector, despite growing investor interest.
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Covid-19: Coping strategies for APAC
Power Asia PacificDuring the first half of April (2020) IJGlobal has been asking 10 project finance lenders and advisers across Asia Pacific financial hubs Sydney and Singapore, Beijing and Hong Kong about the impacts of Covid-19
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Covid-19 – The resilience of energy funds
Power EuropeWhile the airport and road sectors have been hit pretty heavily by the outbreak of Covid-19, the energy space is proving resilient
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Gulf Pluak Daeng CCGT, Thailand
Power Asia PacificChina’s first confirmed Covid-19 case has been traced back to 17 November 2019. A day later and thousands of kilometres away, Gulf and Mitsui & Co had reached financial close on the $1.66 billion Gulf Pluak Daeng combined-cycle gas turbine power plant complex in Rayong – a core province in Thailand's Eastern Economic Corridor development plan
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Genex gets K2-Hydro back on track
Power Asia PacificGenex Power has succeeded in the signing of a new PPA for the A$700 million, 250MW Kidston Pumped Hydro project in Queensland, with EnergyAustralia firmly back on board as the offtaker but no longer as the 50% equity partner
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IFC: smart solutions for urban and remote communities
Power Asia PacificIFC's East Asia and Pacific director Vivek Pathak and country manager for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Pacific Islands Thomas Jacobs talked to IJGlobal about their urgent work in promoting "smart solutions to the problems of urbanisation", such as waste to energy plants and affordable housing townships, as well as bringing new models for developing off-grid energy infrastructure
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Living in unprecedented times
Power EuropeAt times like these – and there haven’t been any of those – it’s hard not to peer into the rear-view mirror to draw comparisons with yesteryear. However, that’s not possible in these unprecedented times… a term that’s already ageing badly… as coronavirus sweeps the planet
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Fundraising in the time of Covid-19
Power EuropeThe novel Coronavirus is posing some challenges to the managers in raising mode. But the market is strong and resilient enough to face them
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Friday 13th – nightmares abound
Power EuropeWhen Friday The Thirteenth rolls around and the mind turns to the darker aspects of work in search of an editorial, it usually takes longer for a theme to emerge from the maelstrom of global infra/energy news
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Why aren’t you in a blue funk?
Power EuropeA question that more people need to be asking themselves these days is: “Why then hell aren’t you in a blue funk?”
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New England Power, US
Power North AmericaHaving plucked two aging Massachusetts peakers out of GenOn Energy’s bankruptcy proceedings in 2018, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners repackaged them last year into a 1.6GW portfolio called New England Power that proved highly palatable to project finance lenders
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Fingering the Force Majeure trigger
Power Asia PacificA lot of people write off Coronavirus – Covid-19 if you really must – as a storm in a teacup, a ramped-up flu virus that’s no more worrisome than a passing bout of the snuffles… however, the infra/energy community begs to differ
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IRS guidance "big win" for carbon capture tax equity
Power North AmericaAfter two years of waiting, tax equity investors finally have much-needed guidance from the Internal Revenue Service on the framework for investments in carbon capture and storage projects
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IPIF: Democratising unlisted infra for Australia's SMSFs
Power Asia PacificAs Melbourne-based fund-of-funds manager IPIF is in a A$250 million round of fundraising for its IPIF Core platform, the manager is considering future possibilities for direct investing. Meanwhile IPIF's new research quantifies the potential for outperformance for SMSFs that access exposure to the unlisted infrastructure asset class, as large industry superannuation schemes have
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I Squared consolidates in Peru
Power Latin AmericaA year after private equity firm I Squared Capital completed the acquisition of a large renewable energy portfolio in Latin America, the fund tied up the final loose ends by refreshing the debt in place at the holdco level and on its newly consolidated Peruvian assets