• Carbon – from ridiculous to silicate

    You just can’t credit it… one week after writing the Infrastructure Stink List, the bar’s been lowered with news of carbon removal schemes that are positively Stone Age. Today's editorial focuses on left-field efforts to save the planet from CO2

  • Infra Dig – offshore wind in Asia

    Offshore wind – a sector that has faced more than its fair share of headwinds across Asia – is the top of conversation for this latest Infra Dig podcast, with 2 guests giving a round-robin assessment of the opportunities on the ground… well, at sea, really

  • HyNet’s Liverpool Bay CCS – capital flows

    Carbon capture and storage is moving into a new phase of large-scale deployment, backed by growing investor interest in a now well-established technology. That shift became clearer in April 2025, when Eni’s Liverpool Bay CCS transport and storage system – part of the HyNet North West cluster and one of 2 x UK government-supported pathfinder projects – achieved financial close

  • The infrastructure stink list

    When you’re wondering what not to do – as opposed to, what to do – look around and spot the infrastructure investor/lender who says: “Hold my beer, I’m off to do EV charging, CCS and fibre.” You might want to walk the opposite direction…

  • Chile's Los Rios-Los Lagos hospital PPPs

    The Los Rios-Los Lagos hospitals package reached financial close in February 2025, taking 5 years from announcement to final signing and overcoming significant hurdles to get construction underway.

  • Aberdeen – Core Convictions

    Freshly re-renamed Aberdeen closed its third core infrastructure fund at €585 million in early February. IJGlobal sat down with Dominic Helmsley and Maciej Tarasiuk, heads of core infrastructure and core infra investments respectively, to discuss the landscape for the strategy amidst current market fluctuations

  • Infra Dig – The Foresight Saga

    The Infra Dig podcast returns to its infrastructure fund interview format for this latest episode, interviewing 2 key players from UK-based clean energy investor Foresight Group...

  • Breaking wind offshore

    Offshore wind has long thrived in that dangerous territory between the devil and the deep blue sea. But these days it feels an awful lot more perilous than back in the market pioneering times… which is curious given its maturity

  • The M&A bilateral bonanza

    When you’re rooting through the undergrowth for an editorial – chatting with folk around the industry – people are quick to caution against leaping to conclusions. And perhaps that's exactly what's happening here...

  • SUSI’s sale of Lyngsåsa wind farm, Sweden

    SUSI Partners, via SUSI Renewable Energy Fund II, sold the Lyngsåsa onshore wind farm in Alvesta to Equinor in March – a deal that illustrates how SUSI applies its energy transition expertise by acquiring projects to bring them online, add significant value and divest them at opportune times to benefit its investors

  • Dusting off while bracing for impact…

    It’s that time of year… that time when Team IJGlobal takes a deep breath, mops a collective brow and reflects on one heck of a busy year-to-date – while bracing for the next onslaught… which is never that far off. The awards season is over... for now

  • SA's Ishwati Emoyeni, embracing energy trading

    South Africa, the continent's most industrialised economy, has depended on state-owned utility Eskom for most of its electricity supply for over a century. However, in recent years, Eskom has been pushed to the brink of collapse due to falling revenues, ageing infrastructure, corruption and mismanagement

  • Infra Dig – The Mission 300 Interview

    This latest episode of Infra Dig returns to Africa for the third time in recent weeks for a fascinating discussion on an initiative that is blending public, private and philanthropic partners to achieve electrification across the continent. Tune in to learn more...

  • A rag-tag bunch of banks

    I can’t quite work out whether “a rag-tag bunch of banks” is an insult or a compliment when quipped this morning about the lending team on a cutting-edge project in the European infrastructure space. Read more to work it out for yourself...

  • Infra Dig – the PIDG interview

    The Infra Dig focus turns once again to the continent of Africa – with a touch of Asia Pacific – for an episode on investing in infrastructure and energy across the 2 regions. Philippe Valahu, chief executive of PIDG, tells all...

  • The great infra seesaw

    Having written about a storming first quarter for fundraising in last Friday’s editorial, it’s a bit of a comedown to report that primary finance and refinance of global infra and energy has nose-dived

  • Infra funds – Christmas come early?

    Data for our Q1 fundraising report that will be published shortly echo the mood across the industry – that this first quarter felt a lot more like Q4… a time when fund managers bust a gut to achieve final close before the end of the calendar year

  • Infrastructure… prancing back to the Dark Side

    Time to buy shares in paint companies (orange is gonna fly off the shelf) as the infra community completes its volte face, shedding all vestiges of virtue, to make some real money in oil and gas

  • Infra Dig – Fola Fagbule on the role of AFC

    This latest episode of the IJGlobal podcast centres on private sector involvement in the financing of infrastructure and energy and the role AFC plays in driving that agenda. Fola Fagbule head of financial advisory tells all...