• Who’d start a new job in lockdown?

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    It’s a curious old world, ain’t it? Have you noticed the number of people moving jobs of late? It’s a trend that has a lot of folk around the industry scratching their heads in bemusement. Why on earth would you take a leap of faith in a market like the one we’re not enjoying?

  • Dendermonde Prison PPP, Belgium

    Maya Chavvakula Social & Defence Europe

    The procurement journey for Dendermonde prison started in 2009 when the Belgian Ministry of Justice began the tender process for 4 correctional facilities, giving bidders the chance to bid on all projects as a package even though each was to be delivered under separate procurement agreements

  • Genneia, Argentina

    Carmen Arroyo Renewables Latin America

    Developers in Argentina have faced an inhospitable project finance market since 2018, but the country's leading wind developer Genneia has managed to finance no fewer than 9 wind projects in the past 2 years, using creative structures including the company's first ECA-backed corporate loan

  • Webinar: IJGlobal Canadian Power Market Discussion

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables North America

    IJGlobal this week hosted its first webinar, this one focused on the power market in Canada – with a primary focus on Alberta

  • IJGlobal Survey – Global Digital Infrastructure

    Angus Leslie Melville Telecoms Asia Pacific

    IJGlobal this week published a survey to gauge understanding and preparedness for Digital Infrastructure – a burgeoning sector that we anticipate will benefit massively from international stimulus packages to revitalise economies post Covid-19

  • Japan offshore wind: readying for auction

    Alexandra Dockreay Renewables Asia Pacific

    The publication of the final auction conditions for Japan's first General Sea Areas offshore wind site is anticipated in June, IJGlobal understands, after the public consultation on the draft conditions closed this month (May 2020). This is for a 20MW floating offshore wind promotion zone, but the market will see some precedents set for the upcoming larger bottom-fixed promotion zone auctions

  • Metro de Santiago, Chile

    Juliana Ennes Transport Latin America

    In a market in which you increasingly see short-term project financing, such as mini-perms no longer than seven years due to the uncertainty brought up by the novel coronavirus pandemic, Santiago Metro has managed to raise 30-year debt

  • esFaraday battery storage portfolio, USA

    Taryana Odayar Renewables North America

    In a sector where there is often more talk than action, Californian developer esVolta cinched a landmark financing earlier this year for what it claims is the first large-scale standalone battery storage portfolio to reach financial close

  • Home workers of the revolution

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    Comrades, we gather here today to pay our respects to a way of life that passed earlier this year having lived to a ripe old age… and evolved into the equivalent of a cantankerous old git who’s long overdue a planting

  • Another Covid-19 article – MENA edition

    James Hebert Renewables MENA

    Low oil prices offset by logistical challenges have been the mainstay of the energy and infra market in the Middle East & North Africa during the Covid-19 pandemic – nonetheless, two projects have reached financial close so far and some sponsors are confident of keeping their assets safe from infection

  • GSRP Portfolio I, US

    Shravan Bhat Renewables North America

    At the end of last year, Goldman Sachs Renewable Power, a division of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, closed a $500 private placement to refinance one of the largest commercial and industrial-scale solar portfolios ever amassed in the US

  • Viridor Waste-to-Energy, UK

    Sophie Mellor Renewables Europe

    After KKR submitted an all-cash £4.2 billion bid in the first round of the Viridor waste-to-energy auction, one of the most highly anticipated M&A processes in the UK, it was hastily wrapped up in less than two months

  • University of Iowa Utility System, US

    Elliot Hayes Social & Defence North America

    Since financial close of the University of Iowa’s Utility System, the US P3 market has seen an aggressive uptick in colleges seeking private partners upgrade and operate cleaner, more efficient systems. Investors, meanwhile, see these transactions as both straightforward and lucrative

  • Termocandelaria Power Limited, Colombia

    Carmen Arroyo Power Latin America

    In January 2020, Colombia's Termocandelaria Power Limited built on its success in the international bond market with a $186 million tap to finance the conversion of a 20-year old peaker into what it says will be the country’s most efficient gas-fired generation project

  • M&A in the Covid-19 epoch: APAC perspective

    David Doré Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    Covid-19's impact appeared first in listed markets. Investors in late January were slowly pricing in the disruptions. Today, however, a popular Asia Pacific infrastructure index shows not a prolonged bloodbath but glimmers of a V-shaped recovery. IJGlobal reports on the pandemic's influence on origination, structuring and execution in the region's private market

  • Falling off a cliff – infra style

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Europe

    As you look out there – virtually, of course, as you shouldn’t be going further than the end of your road unless it’s to load up with a couple of hundred-weight of bog roll – it’s a curiously vibrant market… for now. But dark clouds are massing...

  • Primary Energy Recycling Corporation, US

    Taryana Odayar Renewables North America

    Wind and solar are the obvious choices for sustainability-focused energy infrastructure investors, but for one fund manager, a portfolio of waste-heat-to-power plants supplying steel mills in the Midwest ticked all the boxes

  • Hydrogen: unlocking the green grid

    Sophie Mellor Power Europe

    Large-scale hydrogen production could rapidly accelerate the transition to carbon neutrality. No country has yet developed a regulatory framework for this emerging sector, despite growing investor interest.

  • Pamplona-Cúcuta Highway, Colombia

    Juliana Ennes Transport Latin America

    The $520 million Pamplona-Cúcuta highway, one of Colombia's stalled 4G projects, stuttered to financial close amid the Covid-19 pandemic



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