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Oil majors – shuffling along the Road to Damascus
Oil & Gas North AmericaIn a volte-face that’s enough to make a North Korean dictator blush, the oil majors are continuing to trip over their feet in a bid to reinvent themselves as good guys, having spent the last century-plus playing the black-hat cowboy
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US upstream intention
Oil & Gas North AmericaRebounding oil prices saw a surge in upstream oil & gas investments in the US last year, but that enthusiasm may be more muted in 2018
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Boston automated fare P3, US
Transport North AmericaA new automated fare collection system for Boston, but Charlie is still stuck on the subway
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The most important US infra project (that may never happen)
Transport North AmericaA project that has to be built, a funding gap of billions of dollars, and a President reluctant to plug it
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How to fix US infra
North AmericaA leaked policy document has underwhelmed, so what should the Trump administration be doing to stimulate investment in infrastructure?
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Shadow cast over US solar
Renewables North AmericaThe 30% tariff on imported solar panels imposed by Trump's government should have a larger impact on rooftop solar and distributed solar energy generation.
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The new year – back for another swing
Renewables North AmericaA couple of (hopefully) amusing anecdotes, a preview of our league tables which will be published in a couple of weeks' time and mulling the awards for which we shall hosting judging sessions over the course of this month
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Infrastructure funds – big news
Renewables North AmericaIn the same week that IJGlobal goes live with our infrastructure funds database – IJInvestor – it feels appropriate to turn the focus on an interesting trend in the equity space: the rise of technical advisers as investors.
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US LNG glut
Oil & Gas North AmericaInvesting in US LNG export projects looks increasingly risky, as a flooded market forces sponsors to accept more flexible and shorter-term sales contracts. This is quite a change of direction for a market more or less still in its infancy.
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Abertis – high prices, deep pockets
Transport North AmericaIt’s the biggest infrastructure deal in the market, the one everyone’s talking about – two giants of the European infra community slugging it out to acquire Spanish toll road operator Abertis… but it’s a deal that has more than a few wondering what the hell’s going on
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The great American infra debt squeeze
Renewables North AmericaIn the land of the blind, the one-eyed man may indeed be king… but in the land of the free, it’s balance sheet that a monarch doth make. With limited greenfield activity, the US is gainfully employed doing what so many markets have been doing for a good long while – not an awful lot, and turning a buck where they can
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Yieldcos: going, going, gone?
Power North AmericaOn 16 October, Brookfield Asset Management subsidiaries closed on the long-awaited deal to up their parent company’s stake in the developed market-focused yieldco Terraform Power to 51%
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US infrastructure – living the dream/nightmare
Renewables North AmericaWriting on Friday the 13th, waiting to board the most cost-effective flight money can buy between New York and London, this hack’s infra career is flashing before his eyes
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David v Goliath: What’s next for LNG?
Oil & Gas North AmericaIs there room for both large and small, modular LNG growth in the US and Canada?
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Corruption and infrastructure
Transport North AmericaCan we draw any parallels between the perceived corruption levels in a country and its ability to procure infrastructure projects?
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Hickory Run power plant – US
Power North AmericaIn a first for the US power sector, Asian investors have sidestepped brokers and gone directly to lead arrangers
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New players on the North American fundraising field
North AmericaThe North American fundraising market has been making the headlines over the past 18 months thanks to its mega-funds, but a renewed hope in the region’s future project pipeline has seen a number of ‘new’ market entrants looking to tap investors’ growing infrastructure bucket
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Ohio State University utility lease, US
Renewables North AmericaThe Ohio State University (OSU) has become the first US university to complete a leased-based privatisation of on-campus energy asset
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BlackRock Global Renewable Power II fund: The largest of its kind
Renewables North AmericaBlackRock Real Assets recently raised the largest global renewables fund in the world by reaching final close on its Global Renewable Power II at $1.65 billion, confirming that the asset class has reached maturity among institutional investors