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The Quinbrook Interview
Renewables North AmericaQuinbrook Infrastructure Partners has been voted the IJGlobal investor of the year for North America, recognising the role it played on transactions in 2020, particularly its delivery of direct and measurable ESG. Co-founder and managing partner David Scaysbrook spoke to IJGlobal about the previous year and the direction the investor is headed in 2021 and beyond
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IRS pushes out safe harbor deadline for US renewables
Renewables North AmericaDevelopers aiming to qualify their renewable energy projects for federal tax credits will have an extra year to do so, after the Internal Revenue Service granted a deadline extension on 29 June to account for pandemic-related construction delays
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Editor’s Choice North America – Prince George’s County Schools
Social & Defence North AmericaOver the last 10 years, while transport projects have continued to be procured in dribs and drabs, social infrastructure deals have begun to emerge slowly as the next hotspots for investment. They include universities, courthouses, student accommodation and waste
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IJGlobal Awards 2020 – sign up to attend
Oil & Gas North AmericaIn the absence of our famed IJGlobal awards nights – normally hosted in London, New York, Singapore and Dubai – we are bringing you all the thrills and spills of the night… virtually
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The Global Digital Infrastructure Survey 2021
Telecoms North AmericaIJGlobal is delighted to join forces with international law firm Allen & Overy and our DI intelligence partner M&E Global to launch the second Global Digital Infrastructure Survey, sounding out international market sentiment for a booming sector
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IJGlobal ESG Awards – The Judging Panel
Renewables North AmericaWe are delighted to announce the judging panel for the inaugural IJGlobal ESG Awards that were launched last week
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PJM term loan Bs trade down but are "hard to trip"
Power North AmericaSeveral term loan B deals trading in PJM Interconnection have taken a dip after clearing prices from the highly anticipated BRA for delivery year 2022/2023 were announced. But deal watchers say that this is unlikely to have a significant impact on revenues in the long run
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Tough life awaits PJM peakers as long-awaited auction disappoints
Renewables North AmericaAfter two years of delay due to uncertainty over the Minimum Offer Price Rule, PJM Interconnection has finally concluded its Base Residual Auction for delivery year 2022 / 2023, although results from the highly-anticipated auction have fallen short of market participants' expectations
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The value of risk... explicit pricing of risks can help
Renewables North AmericaExplicit pricing of physical risks can help promote investments in the infrastructure sector. David Espinoza, senior principal at Geosyntec Consulting, Washington, DC, delves into his alternative for discounted cash flow modelling
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M&A bankers prep district energy biz sales
Power North AmericaM&A bankers are readying the sales of a number of district energy systems that are anticipated to hit the auction block in coming weeks
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Biden's shot in the arm for US clean power
Renewables North AmericaPresident Joe Biden has announced an ambitious $2 trillion infrastructure plan that includes a wide-reaching set of initiatives aimed at supercharging the country's clean power and renewables industry
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New York Thruway Service Stations P3
Transport North AmericaIrish company Applegreen has been active in the US market since 2014, slowly expanding its foothold in the forecourt retail space through organic and acquisition-driven growth. The New York Service Areas project is the second P3 project it has been involved in, the first being the Connecticut Highway Service Plazas P3 in which it acquired a 40% stake in 2019
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The next generation of data for infrastructure investors – Special Report
Renewables North AmericaTo the usual “How was Covid for you?” the team at EDHECinfra knows not to smile too much. “When we launched the commercial activities of EDHECinfra in 2019,” recalls director and founder Frederic Blanc-Brude, “one of us said something like ‘what we need now is a good crisis!’”
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US infrastructure – yee-haw… maybe
Renewables North AmericaNational infrastructure plans are usually met with an immediate call to arms from the private sector… but when it comes to the US, the market is a lot less swift to start a-hollerin’ and a-whoopin’. And for good reason. Cruel experience has taught the infrastructure community to treat federal infra announcements with a degree of caution… and the bigger the announcement, the greater that caution...
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Georgia Power sustainability bond, US
Power North AmericaGeorgia Power brought another new ESG labeled security to the US utility sector in February when it issued its first sustainability bond – which is similar to a green bond but with an expanded list of eligible projects that include social initiatives
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California State University, Fresno utility P3
Social & Defence North AmericaThe US higher education sector is in the midst of a prolonged crisis which predates Covid-19 with many institutions under a great deal of financial distress. While we may not see a significant increase in greenfield energy projects involving entirely new campuses or energy systems, there will be some... like the Central Utility Plant Replacement P3 project at CSU Fresno
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Lighthouse Renewable, US
Renewables North AmericaWhile yield companies have sometimes been known to bring in third-party equity providers to co-own renewable energy assets, when Clearway Energy Group recently offloaded a 1.6GW portfolio of wind,solar and solar-plus storage assets to its yieldco Clearway Energy, the third-party investor opted for an unusual capital structure, swapping out common equity for less risky preferred equity instead
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Renewables in crosshairs as SPACs take aim
Renewables North AmericaSpecial purpose acquisition companies have proliferated at a blistering pace over the past year, and market participants are virtually certain that at least one renewable energy developer will go public this way by the end of 2021
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Prince George’s Schools P3, Maryland
Social & Defence North AmericaPrince George’s County in Maryland became the first district in the US to finance the construction of five new middle schools and one K-8 school through a P3, despite concerns that the project could encounter similar problems to a transport deal that was embroiled in legal turmoil in the state last year