• Beatrice offshore wind, Scotland

    Olivia Gagan Renewables Europe

    Beatrice demonstrates ongoing appetite for UK offshore wind, despite the project being developed in the headwinds of changing regulatory regimes, a recession, and a utility sponsor which has changed its operating and investment models

  • Data Analysis: Solar and wind opportunities surge in MENA

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables MENA

    The value of active pipeline and procurement wind and solar energy deals in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region reached a new peak of $7.8 billion in 2016 and is trending upwards, according to IJGlobal data

  • Data Analysis: Mexico’s booming midstream sector

    Rosie Fitzmaurice Oil & Gas Latin America

    IJGlobal data shows that Mexico’s midstream sector has been one of the country’s most active sectors in terms of both procurement and closed financings in the last couple of years

  • Long Beach civic center, US

    Sakshi Sharma Social & Defence North America

    The $520 million Long Beach civic center PPP is the largest social infrastructure PPP to close in the US so far in 2016

  • COP21 starts to impact infrastructure funds

    Viola Caon Oil & Gas Europe

    Norway's central bank decision's to exclude 52 coal-linked companies from the Government Pension Fund Global (SPU) highlights an increasing attention among fund managers to ESG criteria in the way of COP21

  • EIB lending to the UK post-Brexit

    Alexandra Dockreay Europe

    “It would be very much more challenging for us to continue doing business as we are now in the case of a Brexit,” European Investment Bank vice-president Jonathan Taylor has told IJGlobal

  • European renewables refinancings rise steeply

    Olivia Gagan Renewables Europe

    Refinancings in the European renewables market has risen steeply year-on-year since 2012, IJGlobal data suggests

  • Dubai attracts lowest solar tariff, again

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables MENA

    A bid of less than $0.03 per kWh for the up-to 800MW Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum solar project in Dubai could see the Emirate producing the world’s cheapest solar electricity. Only 18 months after Dubai achieved the previous record, the GCC state is yet again setting a benchmark for global renewables

  • Philippines: Aquino’s PPP legacy is a bulging pipeline

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Power Asia Pacific

    Under outgoing president Benigno Aquino, the Philippines has tendered out more PPP projects than the previous three presidents combined. But while 25 PPP projects have been launched during his five-year term, only five deals have crossed the finishing line to financial close

  • The outlook for SunEdison's projects

    Rene Lavanchy Renewables North America

    SunEdison, the beleaguered US renewables developer, ended months of speculation on 21 April when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

  • Slovakia's new ministers and PPPs

    Alexandra Dockreay Transport Europe

    Slovakia’s elections in March 2016 unseated the former ministers for transport and health. At a recent PPP conference held in Bratislava, the health minister’s position on PPP remained uncertain, while the transport minister spoke of a commitment to bring private sector capital to infrastructure

  • Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail not yet on track

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Transport Asia Pacific

    A memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the long-touted high-speed railway line between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore looks set to be signed in June 2016. But Singapore may yet walk away if the richer city-state decides the project is not commercially viable

  • Data Analysis: Conventional power remains resilient in MENA

    Jordan Bintcliffe Power MENA

    The value of active power deals in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has broadly held steady despite fears that pipeline opportunities would dry up this year

  • Vortex pulls Middle Eastern investors into European renewables

    Jon Whiteaker Renewables Europe

    The recent investment by Vortex in a 644MW wind portfolio operated by EDP Renováveis (EDPR) shows the ambitions the EFG Hermes-managed platform has for the European renewables market

  • Passante di Mestre toll road, Italy

    Alexandra Dockreay Transport Europe

    For the Passante di Mestre, an operational real toll bypass around Venice, it has been a sluggish route to obtaining long-term project debt, but credit enhancement from the European Investment Bank has lifted the project's bond rating above that of Italian sovereign bonds

  • Data Analysis: PJM holds steady

    Rene Lavanchy Power North America

    Oil and gas prices continue to decline, dragging competitive power prices down with them and dislocating US equity and debt markets. But there is little sign of this in the PJM power market, where projects keep flowing and where financing terms remain steady, according to IJGlobal data

  • Autopistas de Antofagasta toll road refinancing, Chile

    Rosie Fitzmaurice Transport Latin America

    Chilean fund Inversiones Infraestructura Dos' refinancing of the Autopistas de Antofagasta toll road concessionaire demonstrates the high level of liquidity in the Chilean market, and a growing appetite among local institutional investors to provide direct loans to infrastructure projects

  • Facility D IWPP, Qatar

    Jordan Bintcliffe Power MENA

    A Mitsubishi-led consortium wrapped up financing of the 2,400MW facility D independent water and power producer (IWPP) earlier this week, arranging some $3 billion in financing with nine international and local banks

  • EXCLUSIVE European capital for AMP Capital's listed infra fund

    Alexandra Dockreay Europe

    With the “stars aligned” for fundraising, European investors have begun trading stock in AMP Capital’s roughly $2 billion Global Listed Infrastructure Fund (GLIF), according to GLIF portfolio manager Giuseppe Corona



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