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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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IJGlobal Annual Report 2023
Renewables EuropeIJGlobal 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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EQT’s ferries platform, Nordics
Transport EuropeEQT’s recently launched platform ‘Nordic Ferry Infrastructure’ (NFI) added an asset last month as EQT completed the acquisition of Helsingborg-headquartered ForSea Ferries from Igneo Infrastructure Partners
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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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Mynydd Isa Campus PPP, Wales
Social & Defence EuropeThe first social infrastructure project in Wales reached financial close late in 2022, establishing a blueprint for a pipeline of deals to follow while also lending confidence to the procurement of PPPs across other sectors
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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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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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The Irideos journey, Italy
Telecoms EuropeAsterion Industrial Partners added Italian cloud and data centre company, Irideos, to its portfolio earlier this year, effectively creating Italy’s largest alternative wholesale access and B2B connectivity platform
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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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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