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Abashiri biomass power plants, Japan
Renewables Asia PacificJapan Petroleum Exploration-led consortium achieved financial close on 2 biomass power plants worth roughly $110 million – a testament that biomass is on a steady rise as an alternative for conventional power generation as countries around the globe accelerate energy transition
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Nepal's hydropower market
Renewables Asia PacificNepal’s hydropower potential is tremendous, yet profoundly underdeveloped. Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's government has pumped up the portion of run-of-river projects to 45% of the allocated quota for a 15GW target. This development signals the government's preference for more environmentally friendly assets
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Provence Grand Large floating wind, France
Renewables EuropeProvence Grand Large floating wind pilot – which is led by a consortium of EDF Renewables and Enbridge Eolien France – quietly reached financial close at the end of last year, marking the first floating wind farm to have benefited from limited-recourse debt financing from commercial banks
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Infra Dig – Maxine Ghavi on BESS and microgrids
Renewables EuropeBattery energy storage systems and microgrids have shot up the agenda as they made the comfortable transition from Core + to a distinctly Core infrastructure investment
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ESG – another person’s poison
Renewables North AmericaWhen ESG first reared its head, most folk furrowed brows and disappeared down the rabbit hole of debate which featured repeat analogies where meat and poison feature repeatedly
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Infra Dig – Simon Morrish on Xlinks
Renewables EuropeThe IJGlobal Infra Dig podcast this week turns its focus on one of the most exciting projects on the planet – Xlinks – a landmark renewable energy development in Morocco with a 3,800km HVDC sub-sea cable to the UK
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Unlocking private capital for energy transition
Renewables EuropeJason Zhengrong Lu, head of the Global Infrastructure Facility, takes a look at the challenge being faced by the market to unlock private capital to deliver energy transition
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Infra Dig – Fiona Reilly – Nuclear & Transmission
Renewables EuropeThe Infra Dig podcast series returns to the European energy space with this week’s guest – Fiona Reilly – taking her place at the fireside to discuss all things nuclear and energy transmission
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BlackRock's solar power portfolio refinance, Taiwan
Renewables Asia PacificUS investment manager BlackRock Real Assets last month closed its first green financing in Asia Pacific – a $328 million loan to refinance a 186MW solar power portfolio in Taiwan
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Uzbekistan renewables – Opening for commercial lenders
Renewables Asia PacificAs DFIs and ECAs continue to lay the groundwork for Uzbekistan’s budding project-finance market in renewables, commercial banks are gaining a seat at the table. IJGlobal examines transactions heading towards commercial and financial closure and offers insights into what may happen next
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Greencoat Capital Acquisition, UK
Renewables EuropeSchroders’ acquisition of a 75% stake in Greencoat Capital for £358 million is indicative not only of large asset managers’ readiness to make multi-million investments into the renewables sector, but also of the growing appetite for established platforms with proven expertise
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Friday The 13th – Dawn of the Debt
Renewables EuropeWelcome to the Friday Editorial, dear friends. Pull up a seat. Make yourself comfortable as I have a chilling tale to tell you… one that’ll curdle your blood, turn your hair grey(er) and have you wailing in terror as you face your doooooom
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Infra Dig Podcast – Gridserve’s Toddington Harper
Renewables EuropeThe future of electric vehicle charging has never looked brighter than it does right now as the market throws its weight behind this burgeoning sector, and UK-based Gridserve is right at the front of the pack
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IJGlobal Awards – Standard Chartered Video
Renewables MENAHaving performed impressively in the MENA IJGlobal Awards 2021 – picking up trophies for 5 major transactions to have closed in the last calendar year – Standard Chartered takes time to run through its performance over the judging period and looks to the future
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Don’t Panic – infra slumps happen
Renewables EuropeHaving spent the last couple of weeks riffing off the funds report, it seems only fair now to gnaw knuckles and take a closer look at our first quarter greenfield report for infrastructure financing… which has a very different tale to tell
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The great infra feeding frenzy
Renewables EuropeIf you view the world in a certain way – say, looking at the global infra / energy sector as a gargantuan feeding trough filled with swill (assets), and the funds as a rotund set of piggies – well, it’d be entirely fair to say that the former’s overflowing and the latter have their snouts well and truly inserted
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Bernhard acquisition, US
Renewables North AmericaIn December 2021, DIF Capital Partners announced the completion of its acquisition of Bernhard - the largest privately-owned Energy-as-a-Service solutions company in the country
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Capital availability drives US project finance
Renewables North AmericaThe project finance market has been especially dynamic since the start of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. Here Will Marder of Wilmington Trust takes a look at how it has evolved in that time
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InstaVolt acquisition, UK
Renewables EuropeZouk’s sale last month of UK-based electric vehicle charging company InstaVolt logged a market first in the sector with a pure-play, mega infrastructure fund acquiring 100% of the asset as increasing maturity opens the door to consolidation