• Atlantic Green’s Cellarhead BESS financing, UK

    Atlantic Green's recently closed £152 million financing for its 300MW/624 MWh Cellarhead battery energy storage system in the West Midlands, England, was the largest debt transaction for a standalone BESS in the UK in 2024, according to IJGlobal data

  • Infra Dig – Marsh on the role of insurance in infrastructure

    Insurance – having cropped up repeatedly in Infra Dig podcasts of late – is the focus of this latest episode as IJGlobal continues the quest to improve understanding across the infrastructure community. Martin Bennet gives a helicopter view of the industry

  • Stonepeak's acquisition of Textainer, US

    Stonepeak’s acquisition of Textainer marked the privatisation of the last public container leasing company following a few years of high action in the industry

  • Infra Dig – taking Infra Core+ into forestry…

    This latest episode of Infra Dig takes the ever-expanding definition of infrastructure to new limits… forestry

  • Green Breeze acquisition, Romania

    Nala Renewables' acquisition of the Green Breeze wind project in Romania is an important step in the company's expansion in Central and Eastern Europe, a region that benefits from strong government support and offers attractive risk-adjusted returns in the renewables sector

  • RExus WWtE project, Singapore

    Singapore-headquartered developer Rexus Bioenergy has secured financing for a waste wood-to-energy project in Singapore

  • IJGlobal Podcast - Apterra, the New Kids on the Block

    Apterra, backed by New York-headquartered Apollo Asset Management, is no ordinary credit fund looking to put money to work, it is a direct origination platform designed to benefit all pools of capital

  • Infra Dig – Paraguay’s green fertiliser pathfinder

    As IJGlobal ramps up marketing for the glorious IJLatAm conference in Miami next spring, the timing is perfect to focus on a pathfinder project finance transaction in Paraguay that looks set to be replicated across the globe

  • Infra Dig Masterclass – PF for peace & climate change

    Ravi Suri – global head of sustainable finance and impact investing at KPMG – once again joins the Infra Dig podcast for another Masterclass episode, this one focused on the role that project finance plays in achieving peace and climate change goals

  • Nuclear misstep for powering US data centres

    Nuclear offtakes for data centre owners crashed into a hurdle when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rejected a request to increase nuclear power to an Amazon site

  • Budapest Airport, Hungary

    The acquisition of Budapest Airport by the Hungarian state – via investment fund Corvinus – and Vinci Concessions marked not only Hungary’s largest deal of the year, but the “most high-profile M&A deal to have closed” in H1 2024 across Europe, according to IJGlobal’s own league table report

  • Thames Water – one lump, or two?

    Battle continues to rage over Thames Water – the tarnished UK utility with questionable provenance and international ownership – to the extent you’d think it was a trophy asset

  • AIIF4: Africa’s Infrastructure Dynamics

    Raising nearly $1 billion for its fourth infrastructure fund made African Infrastructure Investment Managers one of the largest private managers on the continent

  • Railpen, UK

    UK pension fund Railpen, which has moved into direct infrastructure investing, may look to make larger allocations in future with investments outside the UK on the cards

  • US Presidential Election 2024: status quo or the sledgehammer

    The biggest talking point among power sector executives in the build-up to the election has been the future of the Inflation Reduction Act. How each presidential candidate is expected to treat the IRA has been a point of consternation for the sector

  • ACWA nears launch of GH2 pilot, Uzbekistan

    Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power is approaching the commercial operations date for a green hydrogen production pilot project in Uzbekistan – set to become the first hydrogen project commissioned in Central Asia

  • Mogobe energy storage, South Africa

    Ongoing capacity shortages and load shedding have plagued South Africa for the best part of a decade. To tackle the issue, the South African Government has been utilising utility-scale IPP procurement programmes to bolster energy supply and encourage private sector participation

  • European PPP – a torpid waiting game

    So, the UK’s going to have a PPP agenda, once again to lead the European market? Raise the flag and let’s have 3 cheers for the revival of a tried-and-tested infra procurement model. That flag will look like a relic from the Crimean War by the time we see the first financial close… if we even get that far

  • EXCLUSIVE US power M&A: dollars deployed on operating assets

    Investment into the US power sector is zeroing in on existing and operating power plants as investors have dollars to deploy today