• Infra banks – a crutch Canada does not need

    Angus Leslie Melville Transport North America

    What a week it’s been for Canadian infrastructure. Ontario retains its title as the world’s most attractive infra market while the government steps in with a move it hopes will “crowd in” – rather than “crowd out” – project lending to drive future nationwide investments

  • Bursa hospital exposes lender limits in Turkey

    Beatrice Mavroleon Social & Defence Europe

    Turkish hospital deals are becoming increasingly dependent on DFI and Asian bank debt, as local and European lenders seem less than keen on extending their exposure to the market

  • Fort McMurray West transmission, Canada

    Rene Lavanchy Power North America

    In December 2014, Alberta Electric System Operator awarded the Fort McMurray West transmission line project to Alberta PowerLine, a consortium of Atco-controlled Canadian Utilities (80%) and electrical engineering contractor Quanta Services (20%)

  • US LNG glut

    Yavor Guerdjikov Oil & Gas North America

    Investing in US LNG export projects looks increasingly risky, as a flooded market forces sponsors to accept more flexible and shorter-term sales contracts. This is quite a change of direction for a market more or less still in its infancy.

  • Making bubbles while the sun shines

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Asia Pacific

    It always pays to keep a weather eye out for the next financial bubble, after all, we’ve seen enough of them in recent times to warrant wariness. Right now there’s a splendid one brewing in the international renewable energy space that should have you all bracing for impact

  • Egypt closes solar FIT 2 at half the price

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables MENA

    Egypt can finally celebrate substantial success in its attempts to procure 2,000MW of solar capacity under its FIT scheme, with the second round seeing 30 projects reach financial close last week

  • Australia’s National Energy Guarantee

    Jon Whiteaker Renewables Asia Pacific

    Earlier this month the Australian government proposed an energy policy change, the so-called National Energy Guarantee, which peaked interest around the globe

  • Abertis – high prices, deep pockets

    Angus Leslie Melville Transport Asia Pacific

    It’s the biggest infrastructure deal in the market, the one everyone’s talking about – two giants of the European infra community slugging it out to acquire Spanish toll road operator Abertis… but it’s a deal that has more than a few wondering what the hell’s going on

  • Fund analysis: AMP Capital IDF III

    Viola Caon Renewables Europe

    AMP Capital signed off on the final close for its third infrastructure debt fund at the $2.5 billion hard cap on 10 August, having started fundraising in Q1 2016

  • The great American infra debt squeeze

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables North America

    In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man may indeed be king… but in the land of the free, it’s balance sheet that a monarch doth make. With limited greenfield activity, the US is gainfully employed doing what so many markets have been doing for a good long while – not an awful lot, and turning a buck where they can

  • The Russia bear awakens

    Alexandra Dockreay Oil & Gas Europe

    With the Russian economy on the mend, investment commitments have been pouring into the country this year from the Middle East and Asia, particularly in the energy sector

  • Growth in Brazilian wind

    Nikola Yankulov & Sophia Radeva Renewables Latin America

    Wind power still makes up a slim slice of the total power generated in Brazil, despite excellent resource in the country and decent investment levels in recent years. But interest in an upcoming power generation auction is high, and potential for international investment significant

  • Yieldcos: going, going, gone?

    Rene Lavanchy Power North America

    On 16 October, Brookfield Asset Management subsidiaries closed on the long-awaited deal to up their parent company’s stake in the developed market-focused yieldco Terraform Power to 51%

  • Peaking interest

    Alexandra Dockreay Power Europe

    The UK “peakers” industry has shot to attention for fund managers this year, with sales of two companies owning flexible peaking power plants underway. A regulatory change to embedded benefit payments enacted this June has effected these companies’ revenue streams, meanwhile potential buyers will be taking a view on the existential threat to the sector from emergent battery storage technology

  • US infrastructure – living the dream/nightmare

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables North America

    Writing on Friday the 13th, waiting to board the most cost-effective flight money can buy between New York and London, this hack’s infra career is flashing before his eyes

  • Norway's PPP contract off the beaten track

    Beatrice Mavroleon Transport Europe

    Norway’s upcoming road PPP programme is kicking off with the Rv3/Rv25 Ommangsvollen – Grundset/Basthjørnet project, for which three bidding consortia were shortlisted in June 2017

  • Even educated fund managers do it…

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    DIF do it, EISER do it, even educated Arcus do it. Let’s do it. Let’s flip a fund. That almost trips off the tongue, and it’s a darn site easier to sing than to achieve. It would appear that when it comes to infrastructure equity funds, Aristotle’s aphorism that “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts” rarely stands true

  • Offshore wind - big business

    Jon Whiteaker Renewables Europe

    Though 2017 has so far been a quiet year for offshore wind financings, the horizon is littered with turbines out at sea.

  • Philippines: Build! Build! Build!

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Asia Pacific

    President Rodrigo Duterte has signalled his resolve to lift the Philippines economic growth rate by building infrastructure at the fastest pace possible. So who will fund what the administration has dubbed the “Build! Build! Build” programme?



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