• APAC offshore wind sector outlook – 2024

    Manju Dalal, Civi Yap and Akshaj Garg Renewables Asia Pacific

    Over the past few years Asia Pacific region has caught up with Europe to develop an attractive offshore wind sector

  • Sosteneo’s Koorangie battery, Oz

    Civi Yap Renewables Asia Pacific

    Italian asset manager Sosteneo Infrastructure Partners has entered the Australian renewable market by acquiring a greenfield energy storage system in Victoria from Australian renewable developer Edify Energy. Post-acquisition, the battery is ready for construction as all agreements including battery supplier, offtaker, and the debt are in place

  • Fair COP, Good COP, Bad COP

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables MENA

    It warms the heart while penning a final editorial for 2023 to ponder glad tidings from COP28 as the trumpeting echoes into the distance from a multitude of announcements. All the while, one is left contemplating the good intentions of the infra community that travelled thousands of miles to show face

  • IJGlobal Regional Report – MEA, Q3 2023

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas MENA

    The year to the end of September 2023 marked a substantial downturn in activity across the Middle East and Africa, however, with some landmark achievements in the financing of greenfield infrastructure and energy across the region

  • Infra Dig – Álvaro Ortega on offshore wind

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables North America

    Infra Dig – the podcast service run by IJGlobal – once again steps across The Pond for a fireside chat with an expert on offshore wind who has made the switch from fixed foundation to floating.

  • IJGlobal Regional Report – Asia Pacific, Q3 2023

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    Asia Pacific bucked the broader trend of poor performance across infrastructure and energy financing activity in the third quarter of this year, achieving similar levels to recent times led by O&G and renewables. For the full year up to the end of Q3, infra finance deployment across APAC amounted to $223.6 billion, a slight uptick on last year’s numbers

  • Infra Dig – Henri Yoki on AI in infrastructure

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    This latest episode of Infra Dig, sees the IJGlobal podcast service return to roots… delving into sectors that are being discussed, but where there is an apparent lack of understanding – artificial intelligence

  • IJGlobal Regional Report – Latin America, Q3 2023

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Latin America

    Performance across Latin American infrastructure and energy deal activity up to the end of the third quart of this year marked a significant drop by value and volume, according to data compiled by IJGlobal. Infra finance deals by value in Q3 2023 came in at $20.1 billion, a fall of 31% when held against the corresponding quarter

  • Infra Dig – Chris Creed, US Department of Energy

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables North America

    The latest episode of the IJGlobal podcast service – Infra Dig – sees the spotlight turn on the US Department of Energy’s vaunted Loan Programs Office and an interview with Chris Creed, chief investment officer at the LPO

  • Connectivity conundrum: offshore wind’s transmission trouble

    Natalie Boyer Renewables North America

    Although an issue facing the whole energy sector, transmission and grid connectivity for the offshore wind industry has reached a whole new level of complexity.

  • IJGlobal Regional Report – North America, Q3 2023

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas North America

    Performance in the infrastructure and energy space across North America in the third quarter of this year proved to be a mixed bag with an overall sense that the market compares poorly to recent quarters

  • Texas Energy Fund: Black gold or green energy?

    Tatiana Caress Louder North America

    Texas lawmakers via a two-thirds margin voted in a controversial constitutional amendment that authorizes a $10 billion Texas Energy Fund aimed at providing low-interest loans to build gas-fired power plants, develop microgrids and modernize portions of the state’s electric grid.

  • Uncharted waters: offshore wind tax equity and credits

    Natalie Boyer Renewables North America

    Among the many hurdles the offshore wind sector is facing, the lack of guidelines for tax credits guidelines remains one of the most convoluted.

  • IJGlobal Regional Report – Europe, Q3 2023

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Europe

    The third quarter of 2023 showed strong performance for Europe across the broader “infrastructure finance” category when held against the corresponding period in 2022, providing marginal cheer in an otherwise fairly depressed market

  • A fool and their money are soon parted

    Angus Leslie Melville Social & Defence Europe

    The English language is rich in proverbs and this one (the headline) happens to be one of the many imparted to me by my grandmother – a rather splendid woman who had a strong influence on me from the earliest age

  • London Array stake acquisition, UK

    Yancy Villarroel Renewables Europe

    Greencoat UK Wind, together with other Schroders Greencoat-managed funds, sealed in August the acquisition of a 25% stake in the 630MW London Array offshore wind farm from Ørsted for £717 million

  • Karatau farm: Uzbekistan’s first wind PPP

    Akshaj Garg Renewables Asia Pacific

    The 100MW Karatau wind farm in Uzbekistan is set to become a harbinger of many more landmark transactions in the Central Asian country

  • Fundraising… swimming naked in the rip tide

    Angus Leslie Melville Social & Defence Europe

    Roaming around the market this week – as is one’s wont – it’s comforting (if not a tad worrisome) to hear rumblings from within the infra fund community that confirm what's been said for a while… with bells on

  • Offshore wind: Mind the PPA gap

    Natalie Boyer Renewables North America

    The seas have been rough for the offshore wind sector, and projects are repeatedly being hit by rising interest rates, supply chain disruptions, local unrest, and political opposition. Financing issues and heavy losses in the past quarter have unraveled the traditional project process. The key economic burden on these projects is, by far, the power purchase agreement (PPA) gap.



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