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PABs: favoured financing
Transport North AmericaWith a sizable chunk of funding still available to developers, private activity bonds look set to be the gift that keeps on giving despite the growing availability of private placements
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What’s in storage?
Power North AmericaIn the evolving sector of battery storage, where predicting future developments is difficult, the importance of contractual structures – and the ability to validate them – is significant
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Importing offshore wind experience
Renewables North AmericaHow European experience can be used in the upcoming round of US offshore wind projects
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Missed opportunity: Seattle monorail
Transport North AmericaWHAT WE SAID THEN: “It was an eminently finance-able project using modern technology, offering Seattleites a six-minute service on an elevated system that would provide a critical transport link that could boast both environmental and economic benefits. But it’s dead in the water”
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Cheating death: Miami Access Tunnel
Transport North AmericaWHAT WE SAID THEN: “The most tangled PPP procurement process in the US, a market that has produced more tangled PPP procurements than most”
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Los Angeles Automated People Mover, US
Transport North AmericaAs a mass-transit solution, California’s $2.5 billion Los Angeles Automated People Mover breaks new ground for financing in the US, delivering a 2.25 mile elevated electric train system, connecting parking facilities to the international airport
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From higher education to social infra
Social & Defence North AmericaThe P3 market in the US is now no longer limited to just the transport sector. It is not even about individual states anymore either. Over the last few years, the focus has shifted to universities procuring student housing projects and setting in motion the potential for other types of social infrastructure projects
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Unstoppable rise of the mega fund
Oil & Gas North AmericaAs we stare down the barrels of the summer lull having published IJGlobal’s league tables and the IJInvestor funds report for H1 2018, this infra hack is currently horsing up the M6 to Edinburgh to celebrate a rather significant birthday in the motherland
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Canadian PPP efficiency
Transport North AmericaCanadian provinces are undertaking colossal pipelines of PPPs but have a formidable record of bringing them to financial close
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New York sees a green future
Renewables North AmericaThe state of New York in March announced both that it was awarding 26 large-scale renewables projects worth $1.4 billion, and that it had requested to be excluded from the federal offshore oil and gas drilling programme. The state was making it priorities clear
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A30 toll road refinancing, Canada
Transport North AmericaThe refinancing of a project which was intended to divert traffic away from Montreal Island has steered a whole load of Canadian paper across the southern border and into the hands of US investors – a first for a major transport project in the country
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Corpus Christi 3 LNG, US
Oil & Gas North AmericaThis is the type of transaction that made everyone involved happy. IJGlobal understands that the only frustration on this deal came from the banks – they wanted more. Cheniere Energy awarded only 14% of what each bank had offered on the first new liquefied natural gas development in the US to move forward since 2015
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Full speed ahead?
Transport North AmericaIf high speed rail is going to get successfully financed anywhere in the US, the flat empty expanse of Texas seems as good as place as any. But despite its developer’s bullish attitude, the Texas Central project has significant hurdles to overcome
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Oil majors – shuffling along the Road to Damascus
Oil & Gas North AmericaIn a volte-face that’s enough to make a North Korean dictator blush, the oil majors are continuing to trip over their feet in a bid to reinvent themselves as good guys, having spent the last century-plus playing the black-hat cowboy
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US upstream intention
Oil & Gas North AmericaRebounding oil prices saw a surge in upstream oil & gas investments in the US last year, but that enthusiasm may be more muted in 2018
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Boston automated fare P3, US
Transport North AmericaA new automated fare collection system for Boston, but Charlie is still stuck on the subway
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The most important US infra project (that may never happen)
Transport North AmericaA project that has to be built, a funding gap of billions of dollars, and a President reluctant to plug it
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How to fix US infra
North AmericaA leaked policy document has underwhelmed, so what should the Trump administration be doing to stimulate investment in infrastructure?
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Shadow cast over US solar
Renewables North AmericaThe 30% tariff on imported solar panels imposed by Trump's government should have a larger impact on rooftop solar and distributed solar energy generation.