• Renewables portfolios grow in the Caribbean

    Carmen Arroyo Nieto Renewables North America

    Developers and investors are beginning to build portfolios of renewables in the Caribbean and Central America, a region that is slowly diversifying its energy mix despite lacking investment-grade ratings

  • Spotsylvania Solar Energy Center, Virginia

    Taryana Odayar Renewables North America

    With its Spotsylvania Solar Energy Center in Virginia, developer sPower offered the project finance market something it hadn’t seen before – a solar project in PJM Interconnection with multiple household names as offtakers, the largest of its kind east of the Rocky Mountains. But while the market responded positively to the project, the road to the finish line was far from smooth

  • Western Downs Green Power Hub – Queensland, Australia

    Maya Chavvakula Renewables Asia Pacific

    Neoen's Western Downs Green Power Hub – one of Australia’s largest solar projects to date – reached financial close late last year, keeping to a tight schedule in spite of coronavirus restrictions to deliver its first project in Queensland

  • IJInvestor Awards 2020 – The Metlife Interview

    Ott Tammik Renewables North America

    While MetLife Investment Management (MIM) has been in the project finance market for 20 years, the story of its massive scale-up began in 2009. From that time, the investor has grown its infrastructure debt portfolio from $2bn AUM to $30bn today

  • Bracing for a new-year slap

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    It’s that jaw-clenchingly awful time again. The start of a new calendar year when inboxes fill with far-from-inspiring editorials from across the sectors “boldly” looking into the year ahead in a desperate attempt to sell thought-leadership credentials through the medium of regurgitation

  • Hydrogen and its ever inventive technologies

    Sophie Mellor Renewables Europe

    Hydrogen has been all the rage for more than two decades, yet little-to-no private, large-scale investment had been made into the sector until more recent times. IJGlobal reporter Sophie Mellor delves into technology developments keeping pace with the revolution…

  • Solar Power Top Trumps

    Elliot Hayes Renewables Asia Pacific

    IJGlobal reporter Elliot Hayes turns the Top Trumps focus on solar panels, identifying some of the market leading units and mapping out directions favoured by the manufacturers…

  • BBVA – extending sustainable finance beyond just dark green

    Ott Tammik Oil & Gas Europe

    BBVA, a pioneer of sustainable finance, has bolstered its track record with the launch of sustainability advisory services this year. The banking sector will be a crucial enabler for facilitating sustainability-linked goals, BBVA’s heads of ESG and structured & project finance advisory tell IJGlobal.

  • IJInvestor Awards 2020 – The Moody’s Interview

    Ila Patel Renewables Sub-Saharan Africa

    Moody’s Investors Service won the IJInvestor Award for Best Ratings Agency. Here key players talk to IJGlobal Americas editor Ila Patel about key deals and ESG

  • IJInvestor Awards 2020 – The Digital Colony Interview

    Angus Leslie Melville Telecoms Asia Pacific

    IJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville talks to Colony Capital chief executive Marc Ganzi about a stellar year of performance that was crowned by repeated success

  • Energy Efficiency – have your cake and eat it

    Arran Brown Renewables Europe

    IJGlobal funds reporter Arran Brown delves into the opportunity and challenges ahead for energy efficiency as it builds momentum as an asset class

  • IJInvestor Awards 2020 – Outstanding Individual Steven Sonnenstein, Digital Colony

    Angus Leslie Melville Telecoms North America

    Voted Outstanding Individual in the IJInvestor Awards 2020, IJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville speaks to Steven Sonnenstein about his career and digital infrastructure…

  • The global ESG scrabble

    David Doré Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    The challenge of ESG and how the market is delivering change - IJGlobal Asia Pacific senior reporter Dave Doré delves into approaches being taken and how the process yields value...

  • IJInvestor Awards 2020 – Rising Star Jemima Atkins, AllianzGI

    Sophie Mellor Power Europe

    AllianzGI assistant vice-president Jemima Atkins is a Rising Star according to the IJInvestor Awards judging committee. IJGlobal reporter Sophie Mellor finds out just how fast she ascends…

  • The ESG policy tsunami making landfall in 2021

    Ott Tammik Renewables Europe

    If sustainable investing reached a high-water mark in 2020, then the level of investor enthusiasm shows no sign of receding in 2021. But a new force is looming on the horizon: EU regulators and the incoming sustainable finance package, writes IJGlobal Funds Editor Ott Tammik

  • Indonesia’s infrastructure: the road to post-Covid recovery

    Civi Yap Transport Asia Pacific

    Indonesia's first wave of coronavirus outbreak crashed into the archipelago in April 2020. Some eight months later, IJGlobal's Civi Yap explores how the world's fourth-most populous country may recover through infrastructure development

  • The IJGlobal ESG Report

    Ott Tammik Renewables Europe

    IJGlobal has today published an in-depth report on the tectonic shifts in the ESG space this year, particularly within the global infrastructure and energy markets

  • Java 9 & 10 coal-fired, Indonesia

    Civi Yap Power Asia Pacific

    Controversy has long swirled around Java 9 & 10 – Indonesia’s coal-fired power plant complex in Banten. The $3.4 billion project in November 2020 achieved financial close, while facing vociferous international and local opposition. The project also paves the way for a fresh equity structure in major power projects in Indonesia

  • The Saudi megaprojects – in need of water and power

    James Hebert Renewables MENA

    Saudi Arabia’s efforts to enforce the sweeping reforms of its economic, social, and cultural spheres is symbolised by its pursuit of singular large megaprojects – the objectives of which go to the heart of the House of Saud’s Vision 2030 initiative



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