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Zenobē battery portfolio, Scotland
Renewables EuropeLondon-headquartered EV and battery storage developer Zenobē reached financial close on a 400MW battery portfolio in Scotland, boasting several firsts: including a higher than market average gearing on the transaction
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Africa's data centre growth opportunity
Telecoms Sub-Saharan AfricaMoritz Breickmann – investment director at African Infrastructure Investment Managers – investigates the opportunity for data centre growth across the African continent
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IJGlobal Annual Report 2023
Renewables Asia PacificIJGlobal is today publishing its annual report that will be printed and made available to guests at the London awards night on Thursday 9 March
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The End is Nigh for infra funds
Renewables EuropeIt’s long been darkly muttered in infra nooks and crannies. Heck, it’s been mentioned in one or two Friday Editorials. In truth, I’m sick of saying The End Is Nigh for infrastructure funds… well, kind of… for some of them
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It’s not “going to be fine” – you fool
Transport EuropeWhen the bell sounds, you better know for sure whether you’re inside the ring or outside of it for the fight of the century – a grudge match of monumental proportions that will first be staged in the UK
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CityFiber's £4.9bn debt facility, UK
Telecoms EuropeCityFibre, a relative newcomer to the FTTH sector and currently positioned as the country’s largest open access fibre only operator, has had an impressive run over the past decade. But its rapid expansion streak appears to have hit an inadvertent snag when confronted with UK’s fragmented digital infrastructure strategy
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Infra funds – hoarding and splurging
Renewables EuropeInfrastructure funds struggling to raise cash… which sounds odd given the records broken in 2022 for fundraising. But we live in a new reality and the suspicion is that hoarding is afoot and that the splurge will come in Q3
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DC Advisory sails through 2022, predicts choppy but navigable waters ahead
Renewables EuropeDC Advisory has won the Global Financial Adviser of the Year in IJGlobal’s Investor Awards 2022, coinciding with its tenth anniversary last March
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IJGlobal ESG Awards 2022: Interview with EDRAM
Renewables EuropeIn the wake of EDRAM winning ESG Infrastructure Asset Manager of The Year (Debt) at the recent IJGlobal ESG Awards, Jean Francis Dusch, global head of infrastructure and structured finance at the asset manager, discusses the firm’s differentiated approach to ESG investing, and how that’s demonstrated in key transactions
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IJGlobal ESG Awards 2022: CIBC and Hydrostor
Renewables North AmericaOff the back of CIBC’s recent ESG Adviser of The Year award for the Americas, Robert Todd, managing director in the bank’s energy, infrastructure and transition business, and Curtis VanWalleghem, co-founder and CEO of Hyrdostor, discuss the evolving area of energy storage
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DBS Bank – Is ESG finance headed towards the mainstream?
Renewables Asia PacificHaving won two awards in IJGlobal’s APAC category – ESG Financial Adviser of the Year, and ESG Excellence – DBS is quietly elated
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Global Infrastructure Partners: Seizing the ESG opportunity
Renewables EuropeFormed from a marriage between Credit Suisse and GE in 2006, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has long had a results-focused and data driven approach to EHS and ESG matters, by virtue of the team’s industrial GE heritage, explains Lucy Chadwick, Partner and Head of ESG
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Re-engineering infra finance for energy transition
Renewables EuropeOnly through in-house specialist expertise, structuring skills and agility will banks be able to meet the huge need for funding new types of sustainable infrastructure, writes Hervé Le Corre, global head of infrastructure finance at Societe Generale
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Infra Dig – John Flint... the UKIB interview
Renewables EuropeThe UK Infrastructure Bank was born from Brexit – the great British answer to the loss of the European Investment Bank that made it pretty clear that departure from the EU came at a cost. Here we look at its replacement...
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Infra Dig – The PPA Masterclass
Renewables EuropeIn the second of the Infra Dig masterclass series, the focus turns on payment mechanisms for renewable energy projects and drills down into what underpins the vast majority of projects' financing packages...
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LAC’s digital patchwork
Telecoms Latin AmericaDigital infrastructure is one of the key pillars for growth across the LAC region with significant impact anticipated for the coming decade. Dorina Yessios, New York partner with Allen & Overy, speaks to IJGlobal...
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Infra Dig – Lars Carlstrom, the Gigafactory man
Renewables EuropeGigafactories are flavour of the day for this latest Infra Dig podcast as Lars Carlstrom – founder and chief executive of Italvolt and Statevolt – pulls up a chair for a fireside chat on his favourite subject
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GI Hub reveals Asia's resilience during high inflation
Oil & Gas Asia PacificAsia’s infrastructure markets can leverage increasingly mature sustainable instruments and the availability of multilaterals to stay resilient amid rapid inflation and rising interest rates. IJGlobal shares insights with Henri Blas, chief content officer of Global Infrastructure Hub, about global trends of private investment in infrastructure in relation to Asia
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Infra Dig – taking renewables Mainstream
Renewables EuropePaul Corrigan – chief financial officer for Mainstream Renewable Power – joins Infra Dig for a free-flowing discussion on the global developer of wind and solar infrastructure and the wider market