Analysis Archive
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Infra Dig – Gilligan’s infrastructure
Renewables EuropeThe latest episode of the IJGlobal podcast service – Infra Dig – sees a major European infrastructure fund take the stage for a fireside chat on all matters energy efficiency. Mark Gilligan, head of...
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Infrastructure – normalising the abnormal
Beyond Infra EuropeIt’s been going on so long, you’d think it’s positively workaday… but constant envelope pushing by infra funds is creating a world where Core investments have cocks snooked at them, while “frontier”...
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Infra Dig – APAC infrastructure finance
Renewables Asia PacificThe Infra Dig focus turns once again to Asia Pacific as IJGlobal builds momentum for hosting our regional conference later this year. This latest episode features an interview with Singapore-based...
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KKR shells out on Core++
Beyond Infra Asia Pacific“The infrastructure space doesn’t exist any more.” That’s the view of one industry source when faced with news that the KKR infrastructure team has acquired 720 Australian poultry sheds. But what does...
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Pole position: Poland’s offshore wind surge
Renewables EuropePoland’s offshore wind industry has taken another decisive step forward with the financial close of the €6.3 billion senior debt package for the 1.44GW offshore wind duo of Baltyk II and Baltyk III...
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Xlinks – murder of a magnificent folly
Renewables EuropeWhen it comes to infrastructure, the more vanilla the flavour, the sweeter it tastes. That’s an industry mantra and when “exciting” projects are touted around the market, reach for your jacket. But...
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The roads of Paraná, Brazil
Transport Latin AmericaIn 2019, the government of Paraná state in Brazil began floating the idea of privatising its major state highways and by February 2021, a plan had been formulated to auction off the roads as 6 blocks...
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Novacap Digital Infrastructure I, US
Telecoms North AmericaNorth American buyout firm Novacap raised $1 billion for its first dedicated fund targeting digital infrastructure at the start of 2025, joining the ranks of private equity managers aiming to...
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From energy transition to energy stagnation
Renewables EuropeHere we are, sweltering on Summer Solstice and – judging by phones not being picked up – the market’s having the season equivalent of a “snow day”. So let's take a look at how energy transition is...
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Infranity’s investment in Energy Solutions Group, Benelux
Renewables EuropeInfranity last month entered the Benelux renewables sector by investing €125 million in the region's largest renewables IPP, Energy Solutions Group, in an effort to not only help drive the company's...
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Gridlock stalls Vietnam’s green boom
Renewables Asia PacificVietnam’s renewable energy ambitions have hit a hurdle, with state utility Vietnam Electricity planning to retroactively slash feed-in tariffs for several operational wind farms and solar parks
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Friday The 13th – Attack of the Infra Zombie Ponzi
Renewables EuropeThey’re out there. Prowling the streets of London, New York, Singapore… everywhere. A mindless predator with insatiable appetite, and it ain’t too choosy what it devours. This week's Friday Missive...
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Going nuclear in the UK… slowly and over budget
Power EuropeThe UK’s proving to be the gift that keeps on giving this week – the one that ends with Friday 13 June – as it dishes up 2 contenders for an editorial of Friday The 13th proportions… but we’re only at...
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IJGlobal Podcast – US midstream and the AI boom
Oil & Gas North AmericaRichard Lum, one of the founders of Victory Hill Capital Partners, talks to IJGlobal senior editor Ila Patel about how renewable energy alone cannot enable the transition globally within the context...
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Casablanca's renewable desal plant
Renewables MENAAs part of a country-wide initiative, Morocco's Office National de l'Électricité et de l'Eau Potable inked an agreement with the Al Baidaa Desalination consortium for the flagship Casablanca...
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Trams in the UK… tramendous
Transport EuropeMemory’s a curse in infrastructure. Instead of celebrating announcements of planned investments into something as core as UK transport, it brings in to sharp refine monumental failures from the last...
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Carbon – from ridiculous to silicate
Power EuropeYou just can’t credit it… one week after writing the Infrastructure Stink List, the bar’s been lowered with news of carbon removal schemes that are positively Stone Age. Today's editorial focuses on...
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Infra Dig – offshore wind in Asia
Renewables Asia PacificOffshore wind – a sector that has faced more than its fair share of headwinds across Asia – is the top of conversation for this latest Infra Dig podcast, with 2 guests giving a round-robin assessment...
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HyNet’s Liverpool Bay CCS – capital flows
Oil & Gas EuropeCarbon capture and storage is moving into a new phase of large-scale deployment, backed by growing investor interest in a now well-established technology. That shift became clearer in April 2025, when...