• A look inside ADB's Energy Transition Mechanism

    Civi Yap Renewables Asia Pacific

    Future 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 phase out coal while scaling up renewables in Southeast Asia. IJGlobal shares insights from project insiders and a Prudential chairman who is an outspoken proponent of the coal retirement mechanism

  • REFF Wall Street: Financers still wary of taking on merchant solar

    Taryana Odayar Renewables North America

    While 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 attractive yields to be gained by taking on merchant exposure outweigh the associated risks

  • REFF Wall Street: Rapid renewables buildout could cause "surprises down the road"

    Taryana Odayar Renewables North America

    Conference 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 the Covid-19 pandemic, but some warned that there could be "surprises down the road" as a result of the rapid buildout of the asset class

  • Fund managers exit left – suitcases of cash

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    A 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 market’s taking

  • Solar tax equity investor exits ramp up

    Taryana Odayar Renewables North America

    Deal 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 pass their tax credit recapture periods

  • REFF Wall Street: Wind sponsors make sense of tax equity outlook

    Alfie Crooks Renewables North America

    Wind 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 Representatives' Ways and Means Committee, which could alter the tax equity landscape

  • Network Rail’s Project Reach

    Arran Brown Transport Europe

    Network 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 questions among industry watchers as to whether the enterprise is out of touch

  • Digital infra to fuel LatAm growth

    Dr Bill Cox Telecoms Latin America

    Poorly 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 conference hosted this week in New York

  • Kaban Green Power Hub, Australia

    Maya Chavvakula Renewables Asia Pacific

    French 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

  • A little bit of SONIA in my life…

    Angus Leslie Melville Transport Europe

    As 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 cousins across the globe

  • 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



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