• Santa Vitoria do Palmar financing, Brazil

    Juliana Ennes Renewables Latin America

    IDB Invest recently closed a total credit guarantee to help finance Atlantic Renewable Energy's 207MW Santa Vitoria do Palmar wind complex in Rio Grande do Sul, in a peculiar transaction that saw the private sector arm of the IDB Group provide a guarantee greater than the total value of the infrastructure debentures issued to fund the project

  • M25 road refinancing, UK

    Beatrice Mavroleon Transport Europe

    London’s orbital M25 motorway refinancing was the largest infrastructure refi seen in the UK since the Intercity Express deal of 2015

  • Panama weighs up the alternatives

    Lyudmila Zlateva & Sophia Radeva Latin America

    Early last week the governments of the US and Panama signed a memorandum of understanding to promote energy and infrastructure investments in the Central American country. A particular focus of the agreement is an attempt to catalyse private sector investments into upstream energy production, power generation, transmission and distribution, and energy use projects

  • Los Angeles Automated People Mover, US

    Angus Leslie Melville Transport North America

    As a mass-transit solution, California’s $2.5 billion Los Angeles Automated People Mover breaks new ground for financing in the US, delivering a 2.25 mile elevated electric train system, connecting parking facilities to the international airport

  • Mexico readies for power auction amid uncertainty

    Juliana Ennes Renewables Latin America

    Mexico's fourth round of power auctions will happen before the new government takes power, but AMLO's administration has already started to release policy changes

  • Belgian offshore wind: betting on zero

    Elliot Hayes Renewables Europe

    Late last month (July 2018), following approval from the European commission, planned Belgian offshore wind farm Seastar and Mermaid merged. This union was prompted by Eneco joining Otary and Electrabel in the consortia for each project. The combined Seamade wind farm will have a total generating capacity of 487MW

  • Bangladeshi infra: cosmic ambitions

    Sophia Radeva Asia Pacific

    Bangladesh is making headway on some of its Vision 2121 targets, but the country has been slow to bridge its yawning infrastructure investment gap

  • India solar: targets and reality

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Renewables Asia Pacific

    One of the world’s fastest growing renewables markets has ambitious goals and a government upbeat on meeting them. But is New Delhi too optimistic?

  • The UK’s broadband bonanza

    Lyudmila Zlateva & Stefaniya Dyulgerova Telecoms Europe

    The UK's broadband roll-out has so far attracted significant private capital, and a growing number of investment opportunities are appearing on the horizon

  • REIPPP revived

    Jon Whiteaker Renewables Sub-Saharan Africa

    After a delay of more than two years, all 27 of the projects procured under the fourth round of South Africa’s renewable energy IPP programme have now reached financial close – or at least it appears they have. At the very least, the programme has finally regained some momentum

  • A65 Autoroute de Gascogne toll road refinancing, France

    Beatrice Mavroleon Transport Europe

    Although concerns over traffic volumes on France’s A65 Autoroute de Gascogne toll road seem to have lessened since it became operational in the wake of the financial crisis, a recent refinancing reveals that the road's sponsors still couldn't be too ambitious when it came to debt tenor and pricing

  • From higher education to social infra

    Ila Patel Social & Defence North America

    The P3 market in the US is now no longer limited to just the transport sector. It is not even about individual states anymore either. Over the last few years, the focus has shifted to universities procuring student housing projects and setting in motion the potential for other types of social infrastructure projects

  • Namibia's solar solution

    Sophia Radeva Renewables Sub-Saharan Africa

    Namibia has undertaken a series of reforms in an attempt to reduce its dependency on electricity imports and attract IPPs into the country's power sector – and it is starting to see results via solar PV tenders

  • Unstoppable rise of the mega fund

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas North America

    As we stare down the barrels of the summer lull having published IJGlobal’s league tables and the IJInvestor funds report for H1 2018, this infra hack is currently horsing up the M6 to Edinburgh to celebrate a rather significant birthday in the motherland

  • The NEG: Certainty in Australia at last?

    Alexandra Dockreay Renewables Asia Pacific

    The Australian renewables industry has been craving regulatory certainty. A solution could finally be close, with an energy council session scheduled for 10 August (2018) to vote on the final design of the Federal Government’s new policy – the National Energy Guarantee (NEG). But market participants have concerns over onerous complexity, pervasive long-term policy uncertainty and its restrained r

  • LatAm healthcare PPPs – just what the doctor ordered

    Sophia Radeva Social & Defence Latin America

    Latin America’s healthcare demand has been steadily increasing, outpacing supply, and has created a thirst for more infrastructure across the region

  • League tables & funds – a game of one half

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan Africa

    It’s been a busy time for IJ with our half-yearly league tables for global infrastructure and project finance and the H1 2018 funds and investor report – the finishing touches to which have been put on today

  • Meza la Paz wind farm, Mexico

    Juliana Ennes Renewables Latin America

    The Mesa la Paz wind project may have started a new way of financing energy projects in the country, with bonds covering both construction period and a long-term PPA.

  • 1MDB: the reckoning

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    The 1Malaysia Development scandal that swept the opposition into power is turning into a reckoning for $22 billion worth of China-backed infrastructure projects



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