• Mind the MLFs – a warning for Australian renewables

    Alexandra Dockreay Renewables Asia Pacific

    With surprisingly material reductions for Marginal Loss Factors emerging in the AEMO draft figures this month, the owners of Australian wind and solar assets may start to consider policy ideas such as renewable energy zones and revising the risk sharing arrangements with offtakers

  • Peruvian broadband: Get connected

    Lyudmila Zlateva, Katerina Ilieva & Juliana Ennes Telecoms Latin America

    Telecoms projects are on the rise across Latin America, including Peru, where ProInversión in January awarded six broadband network PPP projects for a total investment of $358 million

  • DEWA solar IV, United Arab Emirates

    James Hebert Renewables MENA

    A concentrated solar power project originally planned to be 200MW grew – in the space of just two-and-a-half years – into what will be the world’s largest solar thermal IPP, thanks to an ambitious sponsor, a very long PPA, and Chinese debt

  • Renewables march towards merchant

    Jon Whiteaker Renewables Europe

    Given the slow growth of the corporate PPA market, some argue banks will have to start accepting merchant risk in order to finance the next generation of European renewables

  • Funding US wells, not walls

    Aleksandar Arsov Oil & Gas North America

    The first couple of months of 2019 saw substantial deals for the oil and gas industry in North America

  • Institutional investors – doing it for themselves

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    There’s a growing trend in the infrastructure community for institutional investors to “go it alone”, eschewing the services of fund managers as they deploy big tickets across the global market

  • New South Wales’ Regional Rail PPP, Australia

    Alexandra Dockreay Transport Asia Pacific

    The Momentum Trains consortium achieved financial close on 15 February for the Regional Rail PPP in New South Wales, with a group of international banks providing debt with a novel amortisation schedule, while the NSW government has given itself the option to terminate or extend the O&M concession at year 15

  • Sunraysia solar, Australia

    David Doré Renewables Asia Pacific

    Some five months after financial close, project participants gathered for a ground-breaking ceremony this week at the 255MW Sunraysia solar farm near Balranald in New South Wales, Australia

  • Wales & Borders rolling stock, UK

    Eliza Punshi Transport Europe

    Arriva's 15-year Wales and Borders franchise came to in October last year

  • Veja Mate Offshore Wind Farm, Germany

    Elliot Hayes Renewables Europe

    Earlier this month the first in a series of much anticipated German offshore wind acquisitions reached financial close. Sales of equity stakes in three other projects are expected to close this year following the sale of 80% of Veja Mate

  • Tłı̨chǫ All-Season Road P3, Canada

    Ila Patel Transport North America

    The Tłı̨chǫ All-Season Road P3 project reached financial close in February. Despite being procured as a P3 with the typical DBFOM model, there are no banks involved, the private developers are providing a small percentage of the equity and a large chunk of the financing is being provided by the government

  • Infra fundraising – oops we did it again

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Europe

    It’s unseemly to crow about one’s victories in the heavily-contested area of data gathering on fundraising by unlisted, global infrastructure funds… but sadly, it’s also irresistible. Over the course of 2018, IJInvestor logged final close on $104 billion raised by funds – closed- and open-ended, with equity and debt strategies – putting us a country mile ahead of our rivals

  • You queue and wait - Kuwait PPP

    Miroslav Hadzhiyski Renewables MENA

    Kuwait has once again restructured its PPP agency to kick-start stalled projects. Despite numerous delays and setbacks, its infrastructure ambitions remain extensive

  • Ørsted's sale of 50% stake in Deepwater Wind

    Arran Brown Renewables North America

    Earlier this month Ørsted and Eversource agreed to collaborate on US Atlantic Coast offshore wind projects in a deal worth about $225 million for the second time

  • AMLO's new Mexican infra reality

    Juliana Ennes Oil & Gas Latin America

    The cancellation of major projects and a lack of clarity on government plans are making international investors nervous about Mexico though the country's infrastructure need is still significant

  • Bulgaria's contentious energy mix

    Lyudmila Zlateva & Daniela Todorova Renewables Europe

    Huge uncertainty surrounds planned new nuclear power units and existing coal-fired plants in Bulgaria, which should create opportunities for other types of generation. However, renewable energy development and generation has slowed in the country in recent years

  • Long Son petrochemicals plant, Vietnam

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    Thailand’s Siam Cement has been on a patient 10-year long mission to build a petrochemicals plant in Vietnam

  • Investment in India gathers momentum

    Iliyan Videnov Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    IJInvestor data shows that international funds and institutional investors are already active in the market. There are 36 active funds focusing solely on India with a target of investing over $90 billion of capital

  • Nachtigal hydropower, Cameroon

    James Hebert Power Sub-Saharan Africa

    What was originally planned as a captive power project for a Rio Tinto smelter will become the largest hydropower IPP in Africa once constructed



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