• Kinguélé Aval hydropower IPP, Gabon

    James Hebert Power Sub-Saharan Africa

    In the middle of this summer, French asset manager and infra investor Meridiam gained the distinction of bringing Gabon’s first grid-connected IPP to financial close

  • The ramifications of Congress' latest REN proposals

    Taryana Odayar Renewables North America

    The US House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee has approved a critical portion of the Democrats' proposed $3.5 trillion spending package, which includes federal tax credit extensions and a direct-pay option, but market participants have warned that some of the newer measures mixing social and energy policies could have "cataclysmic ramifications"

  • The real reason why the infrastructure deal is so important

    Greg Schiffer Renewables North America

    We applaud Washington lawmakers for bipartisan support reached on investments in US infrastructure

  • Los Guzmancito, Dominican Republic

    Carmen Arroyo Nieto Renewables North America

    As the Dominican Republic opens up for private investments into renewable energy projects under President Luis Abinader, local developer Grupo Energético 23 managed this summer to wrangle debt financing for its first such asset in the country

  • Coaxing wild animals into cages

    Angus Leslie Melville Social & Defence Europe

    Talking to people around the market this week puts one in mind of idle moments trawling through Facebook, pausing to watch videos of kind-hearted individuals desperately trying to lure a flea-bitten dog into a cage so they can find that forever home. Curiously, right now it feels pretty much like that in work.

  • Case Study: Los Guzmancito, Dominican Republic

    Carmen Arroyo Renewables North America

    As the Dominican Republic starts opening up to private investments in renewable energy projects under President Luis Abinader, local developer Grupo Energético 23 (GE23) managed to wrangle debt financing for its first such asset in the country this summer.

  • TLBs creeping into the infra landscape

    Angus Leslie Melville Social & Defence Europe

    There’s a cheeky little financing mechanism that’s starting to impact the European infrastructure space… a riskier debt instrument borrowed from the US that brings with it the far-from-subtle aroma of leveraged finance

  • Sudair Solar PV, Saudi Arabia

    James Hebert Renewables MENA

    ACWA Power has once again delivered a low tariff for solar PV on the 1.5GW Sudair solar PV – only the second lowest in the world at the time of PPA signing

  • Cirata floating solar, Indonesia

    Civi Yap Renewables Asia Pacific

    Indonesia's first floating solar power project earlier this month achieved financial close – amid the market's long wait for state-owned utility company PLN to release its electricity supply business plan for the next decade. IJGlobal speaks with Cirata's sponsors including the Indonesian majority owner and Masdar

  • Cardones-Polpaico transmission refi, Chile

    Carmen Arroyo Nieto Power Latin America

    In a deal that took almost a year to close, Interchile, a subsidiary of Colombia's Interconexion Electrica, raised $1.2 billion of bonds to refinance a sprawling transmission portfolio interconnecting the entire northern half of Chile

  • Case Study: Cardones-Polpaico, Chile

    Carmen Arroyo Power Latin America

    In a deal that took almost a year to close, Interchile, a subsidiary of Colombia's Interconexion Electrica (ISA), raised about $1.2 billion of bonds to refinance a sprawling transmission portfolio interconnecting the entire northern half of Chile.

  • The saviour of Southern Water?

    Arran Brown Water Europe

    Earlier this month Macquarie made a return to ownership of one of the UK’s worst performing water companies – Southern Water. If it can turn it around, the rewards it will reap are not confined to the financial

  • Tilt Renewables takeover, Australia/NZ

    Maya Chavvakula Renewables Asia Pacific

    While the calendar year is a long way from over and it is never wise to call a market leader in August, the takeover of Tilt Renewables has all the hallmarks of logging the accolade for being one of the largest M&A deal in the alternative energy sector for 2021

  • DigitalBridge – the digital infra pioneer

    Angus Leslie Melville Telecoms North America

    DigitalBridge Chief Executive Officer, Marc Ganzi speaks to IJGlobal about the potential for global digital infrastructure investment and the pioneering role his firm plays in this space

  • Defining the digital revolution

    Angus Leslie Melville Telecoms Europe

    Sara Pickersgill – co-head of Allen & Overy’s global infrastructure group – and her colleagues speak to IJGlobal about digital infra and the rapidly-evolving landscape

  • Infrafintech – problems, solutions & securitisation

    David Doré Telecoms Asia Pacific

    Fintech has disrupted nearly all aspects of financial services. However, the impact of fintech on infrastructure – or infrafintech – has been one of the weakest links, finds IJGlobal APAC editor David Doré. It’s time for that torpid state to change…

  • Telsiai Wind Farm, Lithuania

    Anna Cole-Bailey Renewables Europe

    E Energija and GE Energy Financial Services have refinanced the 68.9MW Telšiai onshore wind farm which is on track to become Lithuania’s largest wind park – unsubsidised – when it comes online at the start of 2022

  • Playing chicken with US renewable tax credits

    Taryana Odayar Renewables North America

    Now that the Biden administration's $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill has passed muster in the Senate, market participants are turning their attention to a larger $3.5 trillion reconciliation package that the Progressive Caucus is attempting to tie it to. The reconciliation package contains a slew of tax credit incentives for renewable energy projects. So what lies ahead in Washington,DC?

  • And the winner is… the Mexican Army!

    Angus Leslie Melville Transport Latin America

    Few things warm the heart of an infra hack more than projects being won… but when it comes to airports in Mexico, that’s more likely to elicit wails of anguish. The latest development on the ground (not so much in the air) is a farce of monumental proportions – on a similar scale, indeed, to the scrapping the under-construction airport in 2018



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