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Maldives journey to renewables – scope and challenges
Renewables Asia PacificDFIs are growing their support towards an upcoming pipeline of rooftop, floating and ground-mounted solar projects in a bid to increase the attractiveness of the upcoming Maldivian renewables sector for global investors. We take a closer look at the growing attractiveness towards the new sector, its challenges and opportunities
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Abydos and Amunet Solar & Wind, Egypt
Renewables MENAAMEA Power has achieved a near-simultaneous financial close on 1GW of wind and solar in Egypt’s gusty Ras Ghareb and sunny Kom Ombo
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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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New year – new fear
Renewables EuropeAs we toil our way towards the end of the first week of 2023 – happy new year btw – the customary sense of enthusiasm/anticipation seems to be a trifle lacking. Is it just me, or does it feel a little bit… you know… nervous out there?
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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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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
Renewables 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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VinFast's e-mobility portfolio, Vietnam
Renewables Asia PacificVietnamese automotive manufacturer VinFast recently made headlines after receiving a $135 million climate financing package to manufacture the country's first fully electric public transport bus fleet and national electric vehicle charging network. IJGlobal shares insights about the deal and the emerging subsector
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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
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Infra Dig – Astarte on Greece, renewables and ESG
Renewables EuropeTeresa Farmaki – co-founder of Astarte Capital Management – pulls up a chair for a fireside chat in the latest episode of the IJGlobal podcast series… Infra Dig
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Greencoat UKW, Hornsea I stake acquisition
Renewables EuropeGlobal Infrastructure Partners has, through multiple deals over the past year, fully divested its 50% stake in the 1.2GW UK-based Hornsea I Offshore Wind Farm
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Infra Dig – African energy… in transition
Renewables Sub-Saharan AfricaGabriel Onagoruwa chair of the project development and finance practice at Nigeria-headquartered law firm Olaniwun Ajayi stars in this week's Infra Dig podcast