Analysis Archive
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IJGlobal ESG Awards 2021 – The Deals
Renewables EuropeIn this section of the write-ups from IJGlobal ESG Awards 2021, the focus is turned on the transactions – identifying real developments from during the judging period that turn the dial on the...
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IJGlobal ESG Awards 2021 – The Company Winners
Renewables EuropeThe infrastructure community – those who could be there on the night in these times of Covid-19 – gathered this week in central London to celebrate the victorious at the inaugural IJGlobal ESG Awards
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Philadelphia’s William H Gray III 30th Street Station
Transport North AmericaIn September, Amtrak announced financial close on one of its legacy stations – the William H Gray III Philadelphia 30th Street Station, a major transport hub and crucial link along the Northeast...
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Redstone CSP, South Africa
Renewables Sub-Saharan AfricaA project 7 years in the making, the 100MW Redstone CSP at Postmasburg, Northern Cape has finally started construction after its ACWA Power-led team of sponsors closed on a $800 million deal
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IJLatAm: Viva a 'infrastructure' revolução!
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaAttendees at our recent IJLatAm 2021 conference – a hybrid event, and one we sorely hope to be the last affected by international travel restrictions – received an insight into Brazil’s ambitious...
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AMLO cracks down on power market
Renewables Latin AmericaAfter two years of Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador trying to reform the country's power sector, the statesman has dealt his last card – a constitutional reform that would "decimate" the...
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Rye Park Wind Farm, Australia
Renewables Asia PacificThe unorthodox financing of Tilt Renewables’ Rye Park Wind Farm not only makes it stand out in the renewables savvy Australian market but also highlights the increasing risk appetite of lenders for...
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Wallowing in greenwash & gargling with Kool-Aid
Renewables EuropeMaybe it’s bad form when writing up the winners for the inaugural IJGlobal ESG Awards, but with everything that’s going on at the moment it’s hard not to stare balefully at all this virtue signalling...
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The role of cost-benefit analysis in the tragedy of the horizon
Renewables North AmericaIn 2015, Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, spoke to a room full of some of the world’s savviest bankers and issued a chilling warning. He said that if climate change continued unchecked...
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A look inside ADB's Energy Transition Mechanism
Renewables Asia PacificFuture project finance participants will remember 2021 as the year when Southeast Asia threw down the innovation gauntlet. ADB recently selected a team of advisers to work on a funding vehicle to...
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REFF Wall Street: Financers still wary of taking on merchant solar
Renewables North AmericaWhile some debt investors have grown increasingly comfortable financing merchant solar assets over the last few years, many market watchers at REFF Wall Street 2021 remain unconvinced that the...
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REFF Wall Street: Rapid renewables buildout could cause "surprises down the road"
Renewables North AmericaConference goers at REFF Wall Street 2021 in New York this week applauded the tremendous volume of investments in the renewables space over the last year-and-a-half, despite the disruption wrought by...
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Fund managers exit left – suitcases of cash
Renewables EuropeA spate of infra fund IPOs in recent times has many in the infrastructure community casting covetous eyes at prosperous peers while sucking their teeth and muttering darkly about directions the...
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Solar tax equity investor exits ramp up
Renewables North AmericaDeal watchers have observed that solar project owners are increasingly buying out the tax equity investors in their projects or arranging for third-parties to take their place, as several projects...
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REFF Wall Street: Wind sponsors make sense of tax equity outlook
Renewables North AmericaWind sponsors look poised to favor a "more equitable" direct-pay structure following the approval of a portion of the Democrats’ proposed $3.5 trillion spending package by the US House of...
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Network Rail’s Project Reach
Transport EuropeNetwork Rail’s Project Reach – a live process which promises bidders the opportunity to upgrade UK fibre along the rail network in exchange for the right to monetise additional capacity – has raised...
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Digital infra to fuel LatAm growth
Telecoms Latin AmericaPoorly developed digital infrastructure across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) serves as a major impediment to economic development in the region, according to speakers at the IJLatAm 2021...
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Kaban Green Power Hub, Australia
Renewables Asia PacificFrench renewable energy developer Neoen brought its Kaban Green Power Hub in Far North Queensland to financial close earlier this month in spite of a host of trial and tribulations
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A little bit of SONIA in my life…
Transport EuropeAs the market trembles its way into the final quarter of the year, minds turn sluggishly to the next big challenge facing lenders as the deadline looms for the demise of Libor and its similarly-named...