• Fundraising in the time of Covid-19

    Viola Caon Oil & Gas Europe

    The novel Coronavirus is posing some challenges to the managers in raising mode. But the market is strong and resilient enough to face them

  • Friday 13th – nightmares abound

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    When Friday The Thirteenth rolls around and the mind turns to the darker aspects of work in search of an editorial, it usually takes longer for a theme to emerge from the maelstrom of global infra/energy news

  • Dammam West ISTP, Saudi Arabia

    James Hebert Water MENA

    Saudi Arabia is near to closing on the first in a long pipeline of independent sewage treatment plants (ISTPs) - the $230 million Dammam West project

  • Disappointing bids hamper generation auctions

    Shravan Bhat, Taryana Odayar Renewables North America

    Despite the wall of capital chasing North American power and renewable energy assets, a number of sale processes for individual projects and portfolios have recently stalled or been scrapped, suggesting that investors with cash to deploy are remaining disciplined

  • Why aren’t you in a blue funk?

    Angus Leslie Melville Power Europe

    A question that more people need to be asking themselves these days is: “Why then hell aren’t you in a blue funk?”

  • EXCLUSIVE New kid on the block

    Juliana Ennes Latin America

    The US International Development Finance Corporation is open for business, and the new development bank is keen to convey that it is not just a rebranded OPIC. With new tools at its disposal, it is eyeing opportunities in emerging markets, such as Latin America

  • EXCLUSIVE CFXD offshore wind, Taiwan

    David Doré Renewables Asia Pacific

    Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners' CFXD offshore wind project in Taiwan Strait closed late last month on a roughly $3.94 billion financing package, as two new financial investors and an Asian export credit agency made their entrance to the market

  • New England Power, US

    Taryana Odayar Power North America

    Having plucked two aging Massachusetts peakers out of GenOn Energy’s bankruptcy proceedings in 2018, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners repackaged them last year into a 1.6GW portfolio called New England Power that proved highly palatable to project finance lenders

  • Hurontario Light Rail, Ontario

    Elliot Hayes Transport North America

    Late last year the long awaited C$2.1 billion Hurontario Light Rail Transit (LRT) development, that will cut the commute from Mississauga to Brampton by 10 minutes, reached financial close

  • Pipeline cyberattack highlights risk to energy infra

    Richard Metcalf Oil & Gas North America

    A hacking attack recently shut down an entire US gas pipeline asset for two days, underscoring concerns raised by experts and advocacy groups about the growing threat of cyberattacks in energy and other infrastructure sectors

  • Fingering the Force Majeure trigger

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Asia Pacific

    A lot of people write off Coronavirus – Covid-19 if you really must – as a storm in a teacup, a ramped-up flu virus that’s no more worrisome than a passing bout of the snuffles… however, the infra/energy community begs to differ

  • A wash out for UK water

    Arran Brown Water Europe

    The UK water regulator Ofwat left several British water companies in floods of tears in December 2019 by proposing some of the strictest requirements since privatisation in 1989, setting the stage for the most significant disagreement between regulator and water companies since that time

  • IRS guidance "big win" for carbon capture tax equity

    Taryana Odayar Power North America

    After two years of waiting, tax equity investors finally have much-needed guidance from the Internal Revenue Service on the framework for investments in carbon capture and storage projects

  • East Rockingham Resource Recovery Facility, Australia

    Alexandra Dockreay Renewables Asia Pacific

    The East Rockingham Resource Recovery Facility is the second large-scale energy-from-waste facility to reach financial close in Australia. It differs from its predecessor in its new waste supply structure, under which councils will not be financially penalised for reducing waste volumes

  • Miami-Dade Courthouse, Florida

    Elliot Hayes Social & Defence North America

    After years of delays, Plenary Justice Miami has reached financial close on the Miami-Dade County civil and probate courthouse that will replace an existing courthouse so old that it once held a trial for Chicago mobster Al Capone

  • IPIF: Democratising unlisted infra for Australia's SMSFs

    Alexandra Dockreay Power Asia Pacific

    As Melbourne-based fund-of-funds manager IPIF is in a A$250 million round of fundraising for its IPIF Core platform, the manager is considering future possibilities for direct investing. Meanwhile IPIF's new research quantifies the potential for outperformance for SMSFs that access exposure to the unlisted infrastructure asset class, as large industry superannuation schemes have

  • I Squared consolidates in Peru

    Carmen Arroyo Power Latin America

    A year after private equity firm I Squared Capital completed the acquisition of a large renewable energy portfolio in Latin America, the fund tied up the final loose ends by refreshing the debt in place at the holdco level and on its newly consolidated Peruvian assets

  • Valentine’s Bonus – bankers are blue

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    Word from the banking community has it that if you’re holding out for a heart-warming letter from your boss in the coming weeks – one that leaves you in little doubt how much you’re loved – well… you’re in for a nasty surprise

  • Vinča waste-to-energy PPP, Serbia

    Eliza Punshi Renewables Europe

    A consortium of Suez, Itochu and Marguerite closed late last year on a landmark waste-to-energy PPP project to transform waste management in Serbia’s capital city



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