Analysis Archive
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Vietnam DPPA: a great move forward, but how?
Renewables Asia PacificRenewable energy gencos and corporate power consumers have been increasingly keen to participate in Vietnam’s Direct Power Purchase Agreement trial programme. DPPA will allow developers to mitigate...
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APAC infra fundraising – death by FIFO?
Renewables Asia PacificIn recent years, Asia-Pacific has been one of the fastest developing markets for infrastructure funds. As the region increasingly opens up to global investments, its economies and infra development...
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PF bankers assess Chilean corporate supply deals
Renewables Latin AmericaAs Chile's largest developers secure supply contracts with corporate offtakers and search for corporate financing for their portfolios, project finance bankers wonder whether there will be any...
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Hybrid portfolio financing, Rajasthan
Renewables Asia PacificAdani Green Energy’s earnings call with debt investors on Monday is likely to highlight one of the company’s most consequential transactions to close in FY2021. AGEL sealed a $1.35 billion senior debt...
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Kom Ombo Solar PV, Egypt
Renewables MENAEgypt had been attracting utility-scale wind farm deals in recent years and it was only a matter of time before the country’s renewables sector would be bolstered further by the spread of solar PV of...
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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...