• Aquila adds third LSE energy efficiency fund to mix as market heats up

    Ott Tammik Renewables Europe

    Aquila has introduced a third major energy efficiency fund to the London Stock Exchange, raising £100 million from its IPO

  • The value of risk... explicit pricing of risks can help

    David Espinoza Renewables North America

    Explicit pricing of physical risks can help promote investments in the infrastructure sector. David Espinoza, senior principal at Geosyntec Consulting, Washington, DC, delves into his alternative for discounted cash flow modelling

  • Cairo Monorail PPP, Egypt

    Anna Cole-Bailey Transport MENA

    Cairo Monorail Transit Project – a mass transit solution that is to be the longest monorail system in the world – quietly reached financial close late last year amid the coronavirus pandemic

  • Banks and investors begin to walk the ESG talk

    Ott Tammik Renewables Europe

    ESG considerations are starting to carry real financial weight, as is visible from the flurry of recent ESG-linked financings in the infrastructure market

  • The HIPpest project on the street

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    A curious renewable energy / transmission project has dinged the European radar at IJGlobal… but while it’s always nice to write about a new deal being rolled out, this one has an uncomfortably similar scent to a project of a few years back

  • Curtis Island LNG stake sale, Australia

    Maya Chavvakula Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    The rapid rise of renewables over the last decade has led to an increasing number of countries shunning fossil fuels, but if Shell’s recent sale of minority stake in its Curtis Island LNG plant is anything to go by, there is still a healthy appetite for natural gas among investors

  • Brazil’s sanitation sector hots up

    Ila Patel Social & Defence Latin America

    In April, Brazil’s second largest privatisation event took place with Rio de Janeiro state water and sewage utility Cedae auctioning 4 blocs that serve 29 municipalities

  • Cost of capital king Equitix sets sights on NA market

    Ott Tammik Renewables Europe

    Equitix has hired a senior adviser as part of its North American expansion

  • Ermewa – a reluctant but successful sale

    Arran Brown Transport Europe

    A consortium of a DWS-controlled funds and Canadian investor Caisse des dépôt du Québec (CDPQ) recently prevailed in the auction for Ermewa Holding

  • M&A bankers prep district energy biz sales

    Alfie Crooks Power North America

    M&A bankers are readying the sales of a number of district energy systems that are anticipated to hit the auction block in coming weeks

  • Vietnam DPPA: a great move forward, but how?

    Civi Yap Renewables Asia Pacific

    Renewable 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 the risk that the monopoly power system operator may be unable to offtake power by selling electricity to corporate offtakers, signalling the transition to a more open electricity market

  • APAC infra fundraising – death by FIFO?

    Anton Tankovski & Stefaniya Dyulgerova Renewables Asia Pacific

    In 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 are growing significantly

  • PF bankers assess Chilean corporate supply deals

    Carmen Arroyo Nieto Renewables Latin America

    As 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 mandates left in the long run that are not corporate-based

  • Hybrid portfolio financing, Rajasthan

    David Doré Renewables Asia Pacific

    Adani 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 facility with participation from 12 international banks to finance India's largest hybrid cluster development

  • Kom Ombo Solar PV, Egypt

    James Hebert Renewables MENA

    Egypt 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 a similar size from across the Red Sea

  • Netflix and bone-crushing tedium…

    Angus Leslie Melville Social & Defence Europe

    As 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 has anything to say

  • Biden's shot in the arm for US clean power

    Taryana Odayar Renewables North America

    President 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

  • Mutkalampi Wind Farm, Finland

    Anna Cole-Bailey Renewables Europe

    Earlier 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

  • New York Thruway Service Stations P3

    Ila Patel Transport North America

    Irish 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 Areas project is the second P3 project it has been involved in, the first being the Connecticut Highway Service Plazas P3 in which it acquired a 40% stake in 2019



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