Analysis Archive
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Maritza East III refinancing
Power EuropeThe refinancing of the 840MW Maritza East 3 power project shows how much banking confidence in the power sector has grown since the years of over-capacity that dogged the early part of the decade
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Second Wave French Prison PPP
Social & Defence EuropeWhile France has traditionally lagged behind the UK in the size and scale of its PPP programmes, the prison sector is a marked exception
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Maesteg Welsh education PFI
Social & Defence EuropeAfter seven years of planning and having overcome several setbacks, Bridgend County Borough Council's £24 million secondary school PFI for the town of Maesteg, South Wales finally closed on 6 October
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Bonny Gas Transport LNG ship refinancing
Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan AfricaBonny Gas Transport's US$680 million LNG ship refinancing did exactly what a refinancing should- namely, take four existing historical loans with high margins and repackaged them into one new loan...
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PEBBLE Portuguese renewables financing
Renewables EuropeWhen it comes to ambitious new entrants trying to emerge from the shadow of a more fêted neighbour, Babcock and Brown and the Portuguese renewables market have more than a little in common - write...
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EDL's gas-to-energy refinancing
Renewables Asia PacificEnergy Developments Ltd (EDL) has closed the refinancing of its 10 operational English landfill gas-to-energy (GTE) sites, taking advantage of an improved power market and international hunger for...
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GMR Infrastructure Indian Toll Roads
Transport Asia PacificIncreasing numbers of Indian authorities are committing to opening the infrastructure sector to private players, and are getting geared up with PPP units in every government board.
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Ontario's Prince Wind I and II
Renewables North AmericaAfter getting off to a flying start in the mid-90s, Canada's wind energy industry hit a something of a trough coming into the new millennium. But the last three years or so have seen the sector rally
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International Power Rugeley financing
Power EuropeWhen International Power bought the Rugeley Power Station from TXU in June 2001 it cost the company £200 million, five years later the company was able to use the asset to secure £405 million of...