Analysis Archive
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Netflix and bone-crushing tedium…
Social & Defence EuropeAs we tentatively venture out of our homes to bump elbows – not rub shoulders as that’s too close – with friends and colleagues we’ve not seen for an age… it’s becoming horribly apparent that nobody...
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Biden's shot in the arm for US clean power
Renewables North AmericaPresident Joe Biden has announced an ambitious $2 trillion infrastructure plan that includes a wide-reaching set of initiatives aimed at supercharging the country's clean power and renewables industry
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Mutkalampi Wind Farm, Finland
Renewables EuropeEarlier in the month Neoen reached financial close on the €478 million Mutkalampi wind farm – Finland’s largest onshore wind project to date, with commissioning set for late 2022
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New York Thruway Service Stations P3
Transport North AmericaIrish company Applegreen has been active in the US market since 2014, slowly expanding its foothold in the forecourt retail space through organic and acquisition-driven growth. The New York Service...
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Awards – a flattering market reflection?
Renewables EuropeHaving spent the last couple of weeks wading through submissions for IJGlobal Awards 2020 and now having launched into Judgment Day sessions… it’s with a somewhat giddy head that fingers hit keyboard...
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Secondary funds market primed for a bumper year
Renewables EuropeThe pandemic temporarily threw a wrench in the works, but an inflow of new capital is expected to drive further growth in the secondary market for stakes in infrastructure funds
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Taking the pulse on Velindre
Social & Defence EuropeThe long-delayed Velindre Cancer Research Centre PPP in Wales appears to have received a much-needed breath of life with the Welsh government approving the business case for the development, allowing...
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Sitara Solar Energy, India
Renewables Asia PacificSoft copy proposals were due at the end of last week on the government-backed Seci's Tranche-IV, which is the procurement of IPPs to develop up to 1,785MW of grid-connected solar power in north...
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Battle for Suez: driving a hard bargain
Social & Defence EuropeAn M&A battle has seldom caused such a stench as that kicked up by Veolia’s struggle to swallow Suez, still unresolved after the best part of a year
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Yanbu-4 IWP, Saudi Arabia
Water MENASaudi Arabia’s water drive continues with the 450,000 m3pd Yanbu-4 IWP project which has been brought to financial close by an Engie-led consortium
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The next generation of data for infrastructure investors – Special Report
Renewables EuropeTo the usual “How was Covid for you?” the team at EDHECinfra knows not to smile too much. “When we launched the commercial activities of EDHECinfra in 2019,” recalls director and founder Frederic...
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US infrastructure – yee-haw… maybe
Renewables North AmericaNational infrastructure plans are usually met with an immediate call to arms from the private sector… but when it comes to the US, the market is a lot less swift to start a-hollerin’ and a-whoopin’...
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Future-proofing Asia Pacific – Hydrogen financing’s bamboo shoots
Oil & Gas Asia PacificThe market is increasingly seizing opportunities across hydrogen’s value chain in Asia Pacific, with a natural alignment evolving between value chain and financial solutions. The industry needs to...
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Going green – the Dutch clean hydrogen vision
Oil & Gas EuropeThe Netherlands is a leading light in the green hydrogen revolution with many pinning hopes on it as a pathfinder for Europe. IJGlobal assistant editor Anna Cole-Bailey takes a look at the most...
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Brexit Special Report 2021
Renewables EuropeIJGlobal speaks to Assured Guaranty’s Paris-based Raphael de Tapol about the challenges brought by Brexit and how AG has risen to overcome them…
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Investors look for exits amid Mexico’s counter-reform
Renewables Latin AmericaAs the Mexican government pushes through its counter-reform of the energy sector, some investors are preparing to leave the country while others attempt to navigate the uncertainty
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Environmentally, economically and politically unstable… nuclear
Power EuropeThe future of nuclear lies in the hands of governments that want to build it. Sophie Mellor looks at how ESG ratings, public and private financing as well as politically stability impact projects
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One year in… one quarter up
Social & Defence EuropeHaving penned the Editor’s Letter for the next issue of the IJGlobal Magazine (out next week, online only), it left this aging infra hack pondering how long it had been since the last Friday missive…...
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Georgia Power sustainability bond, US
Power North AmericaGeorgia Power brought another new ESG labeled security to the US utility sector in February when it issued its first sustainability bond – which is similar to a green bond but with an expanded list of...