• REIPPP revived

    Jon Whiteaker Renewables Sub-Saharan Africa

    After a delay of more than two years, all 27 of the projects procured under the fourth round of South Africa’s renewable energy IPP programme have now reached financial close – or at least it appears they have. At the very least, the programme has finally regained some momentum

  • Namibia's solar solution

    Sophia Radeva Renewables Sub-Saharan Africa

    Namibia has undertaken a series of reforms in an attempt to reduce its dependency on electricity imports and attract IPPs into the country's power sector – and it is starting to see results via solar PV tenders

  • League tables & funds – a game of one half

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan Africa

    It’s been a busy time for IJ with our half-yearly league tables for global infrastructure and project finance and the H1 2018 funds and investor report – the finishing touches to which have been put on today

  • DFI lending in Rwanda

    Nikola Yankulov Power Sub-Saharan Africa

    Since President Paul Kagame launched his country's Vision 2020 development plan in 2000, substantial progress has been made on improving Rwanda's infrastructure

  • Saudi – pricing the sun and wind

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables MENA

    The Middle East has shot to the top of the renewable energy industry’s onshore leader board with an enviable programme of scale. Bidders are now tripping over themselves to compete and word from the banking community has it that lenders are wincing at the margins

  • Saudi Arabian renewables tenders

    Lyudmila Zlateva Renewables MENA

    Saudi Arabia in early 2018 announced ambitious new plans to promote renewable energy as part of the kingdom’s long-term strategy to diversify its economy. The kingdom is planning to tender a total of 3.3GW of solar capacity and 800MW of wind capacity this year, Turki Al Shehri, head of the Renewable Energy Project Development Office confirmed to IJGlobal in January

  • Scaling Solar in Africa

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables Sub-Saharan Africa

    Three years on from the launch of the International Finance Corporation's Scaling Solar scheme in Zambia, the programme is gaining traction. Four other African countries are now running procurements – and Zambia is coming back for another helping. Between them, they account for over 1.2GW of capacity

  • DEWA CSP

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables MENA

    Acwa Power and Shanghai Electric’s 700MW CSP project in Dubai represents the world’s largest thermal solar development. The sponsors are looking to finance the $3.9 billion development with a raft of European, Chinese and regional lenders under a soft mini-perm structure

  • Lebanon’s designs on PPP

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables MENA

    Lebanon has unveiled plans for a $22 billion Infrastructure Investment Programme (IIP) to be implemented over the coming 12 years, with $6 billion of that designated as PPPs. The programme opens up opportunities for private investors to tap a market desperately in need of key infrastructure – but which has had little PPP success in the past

  • China powering into Africa

    Sophia Radeva Power Sub-Saharan Africa

    Last year saw a surge in investment in Africa power assets by Chinese institutions, demonstrating how the continent continues to be of major economic and strategic importance to the Asian superpower

  • White-Line Fever – the European malady

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan Africa

    In a perfect world all infrastructure and energy projects are delivered without hitch, operate as expected and run the course of the contract within the parameters outlined in tomes of legal documentation

  • Saudi gets solar right with Sakaka

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables MENA

    After a number of false starts, Saudi Arabia’s first utility scale solar project – the 300MW Sakaka PV plant – is nearing financial close. The deal is the first step in the kingdom’s ambitious renewable energy plans

  • Kuwait PPP 10 years on

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables MENA

    It is 10 years since Kuwait launched its PPP programme, which to date has delivered just one project, leading many to question whether procurement agency Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects (KAPP) will ever deliver most of its pipeline

  • Acquisition of 70% of ENGIE E&P International

    Alexandra Dockreay Oil & Gas MENA

    Private equity-backed operators have poured billions of dollars into the North Sea upstream industry over the last 18 months. Neptune Energy’s first deal to buy out ENGIE's portfolio seals the entry of another independent, but is likely to be the last in a flurry of sales of mega-sized upstream portfolios by majors

  • The bluffer’s guide to infrastructure

    Angus Leslie Melville MENA

    Sitting down yesterday to an old-school lunch with a rare selection of industry veterans, discussion over a succulent rack of lamb and a cheeky bottle of red inevitably turned to the nostalgic “where are they now?” and swiftly evolved into the more waspish “how are they still there?”

  • PCOAs and PRGs: Solar protection in Nigeria

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables Sub-Saharan Africa

    Solar developers in Nigeria are aiming to reach financial close on 14 PV projects totaling 1,125MW of capacity this year. But the ambitious programme still has a number of hurdles to clear

  • The new year – back for another swing

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables MENA

    A couple of (hopefully) amusing anecdotes, a preview of our league tables which will be published in a couple of weeks' time and mulling the awards for which we shall hosting judging sessions over the course of this month

  • Meeting future demand

    Nikola Yankulov & Sophia Radeva Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan Africa

    East African LNG export projects have a window of opportunity to cash in on future market demand

  • Infrastructure funds – big news

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables MENA

    In the same week that IJGlobal goes live with our infrastructure funds database – IJInvestor – it feels appropriate to turn the focus on an interesting trend in the equity space: the rise of technical advisers as investors.