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Velindre Cancer Centre PPP, Wales
Social & Defence EuropeWales’s beleaguered Velindre Cancer Centre project reached financial close at the end of March 2024 following a string of delays throughout the project’s lifetime
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Infra Dig – Edward Wilkinson, GScan
Power EuropeIJGlobal’s podcast service has always sought to lift the lid on advanced technology in service of the infrastructure and energy sector… and this one fulfils that requirement perfectly. Edward Wilkinson, strategic corporate development lead at GScan, talks about a technology that sees to the heart of things
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British Sustainable Infrastructure II, UK
Renewables EuropeAs local authorities across the UK increasingly declare climate and nature emergencies, Gresham House’s second British Sustainable Infrastructure strategy aims to invest in the technologies and services necessary to build a future economy resilient to these crises
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Infra Dig – Hamish Lea-Wilson, Igneo IP
Renewables EuropeThe role of long-term investors in infrastructure and energy forms a central tenet of this latest episode of the IJGlobal podcast – Infra Dig – in a far-ranging interview that spans Europe. Hamish Lea-Wilson, a partner at Igneo Infrastructure Partners, speaks openly
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Acquisition of Equans Urban Energy, UK
Social & Defence EuropeA consortium of Swiss Life Asset Managers and Schroders Greencoat took over Equans Urban Energy in the UK in December for an enterprise value of £260 million, becoming the owner of the country's largest portfolio of heating and cooling concessions
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University of Sussex West Slope PPP, England
Social & Defence EuropeThe University of Sussex celebrated financial close late last year on a £210.5 million PPP-style transaction to upgrade and increase its accommodation services to transform the student experience
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Quinbrook Renewables Impact Fund, UK
Renewables EuropeQuinbrook’s Renewables Impact Fund is aiming to address the need for investment in renewable energy infrastructure in the UK, to facilitate the scale-up and deployment of the generation capacity required to reach net zero targets
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Acquisition of Statera, UK
Renewables EuropeEQT’s acquisition of Statera Energy was exactly the type of deal the fund manager had been pursuing for years, Benjamin Bygott-Webb, managing director at EQT, tells IJGlobal
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London CIV’s new CIO
Renewables EuropeThe pension pool for London’s Local Government Pension Schemes, London Collective Investment Vehicle, is beginning the year under the leadership of a new CIO
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Energy transition – time to get the finger out
Renewables EuropeConversations with the industry this week leave this infra hack considerably more concerned at the end than the start… worrying about hitting Net Zero targets, the pace of delivery of renewables projects and – pretty much – energy transition in general. But most of all, the need to get the finger out
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IJGlobal Regional Report – Europe, FY 2023
Oil & Gas EuropeInfrastructure finance across Europe dipped by 6.2% over the course of the 2023 calendar year, marking a slight drop against performance achieved in full-year 2022, according to the IJGlobal database
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Bluefield Revive, Italy
Renewables EuropeBluefield's Revive strategy looks away from the allure of new-build renewables megaprojects and instead addresses a question crucial to the energy transition – how to revitalise aging and fragmented assets and generate long-term sustainable impact
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Broken (investor) relations…
Renewables EuropeReaching out to the market this week, you’re left with a curious sense that it’s divided into 2 schools of thought when it comes to fund managers drumming up cash. Today’s editorial is prompted by an evening out with a handful of infra types in mid-December when one immediately recognisable IR person expressed relief that LPs were starting to loosen the purse strings
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DWS's Stagecoach acquisition, UK
Transport EuropeEmbracing what has been deemed “the golden age of electric busses”, DWS acquired Stagecoach in 2022, usurping a bid from National Express
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GIP – oh to be in the Nifty Fifty…
Renewables EuropeWord reaches IJGlobal that of the 400-strong GIP team in the reverse takeover of BlackRock, a group of 50 big hitters has emerged as the real winner, earning themselves a nickname – the “Nifty Fifty”
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Flogging a dead horse
Renewables EuropeOnce you’ve started flogging a dead horse, when do you stop? There’s no obvious time to hang up the whip. And that’s very much the case with the consolidation of infra funds… as well as the desire to write about it
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IJGlobal Regional Report – Europe, Q3 2023
Oil & Gas EuropeThe third quarter of 2023 showed strong performance for Europe across the broader “infrastructure finance” category when held against the corresponding period in 2022, providing marginal cheer in an otherwise fairly depressed market
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A fool and their money are soon parted
Social & Defence EuropeThe English language is rich in proverbs and this one (the headline) happens to be one of the many imparted to me by my grandmother – a rather splendid woman who had a strong influence on me from the earliest age
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London Array stake acquisition, UK
Renewables EuropeGreencoat UK Wind, together with other Schroders Greencoat-managed funds, sealed in August the acquisition of a 25% stake in the 630MW London Array offshore wind farm from Ørsted for £717 million