• Waterloo LRT, Canada

    Sakshi Sharma Transport North America

    The C$621.2 million ($571.5 million) Waterloo light rail transit PPP in Canada is the latest transit deal to close using a mixture of short-term bank debt and long-term bond financing, after the C$2 billion Ottawa light rail deal, which closed last year

  • Market readies for Thames Tideway Tunnel’s IP structure

    Alexandra Dockreay Water Europe

    Bidding is underway for construction contracts, and now the much-awaited tender is imminent to finance London’s new Thames Tideway Tunnel

  • Gemini wind, the Netherlands

    Elizabeth Kemble Renewables Europe

    The Gemini offshore wind farm in the Netherlands is the largest offshore wind project financing ever, and featured export credit agencies, commercial banks and a Danish pension fund

  • Is Asia ready for project bond enhancement?

    Thomas Blott Asia Pacific

    Europe has honed a project bond credit enhancement. Asia is poised to follow

  • Roy Hill, Australia

    Thomas Blott Mining Asia Pacific

    The financing for the Roy Hill iron ore project in Australia is the largest deal to close so far this year, and was a rare non-recourse deal in a sector which has been dominated traditionally by corporate deals.

  • Gas prices key to Energy Future restructuring

    Tom Nelthorpe Power North America

    Energy Future Intermediate Holding Company has launched a tender for its first and second lien debt, despite some opposition from junior lenders to the bankrupt power company's affiliates

  • N17/N18 Gort-Tuam, Ireland

    Alexandra Dockreay Transport Europe

    The N17/N18 Gort-Tuam financing for Ireland marks the re-emergence of international confidence, after the impact of the sovereign debt crisis

  • Sarulla geothermal, Indonesia

    Thomas Blott Renewables Asia Pacific

    Sarulla is a breakthrough for renewables development in Indonesia, and shows that the country may at last be living up to its geothermal potential

  • US PPPs: Bridging the policy gaps

    Sakshi Sharma Transport North America

    While Kentucky’s PPP enabling legislation might still be a few miles from execution, overall an increasing number of US states have recognized and accepted the model in recent years. But can there be a nationwide standardisation of the model?

  • Abengoa Transmisión Sur refinancing, Peru

    Rosie Fitzmaurice Power Latin America

    The Abengoa Transmisión Sur (ATS) refinancing of its Peruvian transmission lines through the international capital markets successfully tested a model that the industry hopes will become the new paradigm for financing infrastructure projects across Latin America

  • Where next for South Africa's power market?

    Jon Whiteaker Renewables Sub-Saharan Africa

    While the Department of Energy (DoE) ploughs ahead with plans for new baseload power plants, the South African government still has many questions to answer regarding its pathfinder renewables programme

  • In the shadow of Colombia's 4G

    Rosie Fitzmaurice Transport Latin America

    Investors are keenly monitoring the development of Bogotá’s proposed first metro line. But Colombia’s fledgling 4G roads programme overshadows progress everywhere else

  • Mersey Gateway Bridge PPP, UK

    Alexandra Dockreay Transport Europe

    The UK government's Infrastructure Guarantee Programme found its first major breakthrough for vital infrastructure on the £600 million ($998 million) Mersey Gateway Bridge PPP, which is a project of many firsts for the UK

  • Power struggles: Europe and Russia’s rising tensions

    Olivia Gagan Oil & Gas Europe

    The crisis in Ukraine has dominated headlines in recent weeks, and the European energy sector in particular is growing increasingly vulnerable to the rising political tensions

  • Lake Turkana wind, Kenya

    Jon Whiteaker Renewables Sub-Saharan Africa

    The Lake Turkana wind project in Kenya is a perfect example of how difficult it can be to utilise plentiful renewable energy resource in countries with limited national infrastructure

  • A11 motorway PPP, Belgium

    Alexandra Dockreay Transport Europe

    The A11 motorway PPP in Belgium is the third project to close with the European Investment Bank’s project bond credit enhancement (PBCE) product, which is in its pilot stage

  • Turkey’s STAR Rafineri

    Olivia Gagan and Muhabbat Mahmudova Oil & Gas Europe

    Set to bring a raft of export credit agencies, international and local banks into the Turkish energy market - some for the first time - the STAR Rafineri crude oil refinery project is significant for the country and its project finance market

  • Reventazón hydro power plant, Costa Rica

    Rosie Fitzmaurice Power Latin America

    Costa Rica’s state-owned utility Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) reached financial close on the 305.5MW Reventazón hydro power plant at the end of January 2014. The project, which will be Central America’s largest hydro power plant upon completion, is a crucial step towards meeting growing power supply demand, in a country heavily reliant upon hydro generation.

  • Portugal’s privatisations drive ahead

    Alexandra Dockreay Europe

    Several years after EU bailouts forced a number of Europe’s struggling economies to launch privatisation programmes, Portugal stands out as an exception in running broadly to schedule



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