Analysis Archive
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Yunlin offshore wind, Taiwan
Renewables Asia PacificThe participation of the Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs' Deputy Minister at a press conference tomorrow (2 July 2019) about the 640MW Yunlin offshore wind farm signals how strategic the...
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Canada – victim of its own success
Transport North AmericaIt’s rarely wise to hold up a market as a bellwether as it all but guarantees a dramatic reversal of fortunes, but when it comes to social infrastructure and transport, Canada – in parts – is a...
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Fund analysis: Digital Colony Partners
Telecoms North AmericaOn 5 June Florida-based Digital Colony Management signed off final close on its maiden fund Digital Colony Partners at $4.05 billion, slightly above the hard cap
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Monster hunting – energy storage in Asia
Renewables Asia PacificMajor battery storage projects in Asia may still seem mythical to some, but many have taken on the quest
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Who’s afraid of the CLO?
Oil & Gas Asia PacificNot all financial instruments with three-letter acronyms are scary. CLOs for infrastructure debt are not only making a comeback but now being promoted as a solution to climate change
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Libor transition – buckle up for a rough ride
Oil & Gas EuropeThe infrastructure industry is bracing for a storm of monumental proportions as the market readies itself for the transition away from established inter-bank lending rates that underpin many billions...
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Dunkirk offshore wind: a tender subject
Renewables EuropeEuropean offshore wind developers have been talking of little else other than the tender for the Dunkirk project in recent months. Their curiosity was finally satisfied on 14 June 2019 when it emerged...
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Coal-fired power in Europe
Power EuropeMizuho Financial Group last month became the latest major Japanese bank to revise its policy framework to impose restriction on its lending to coal-fired power projects
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Boké bauxite project phase 1, Guinea
Mining Sub-Saharan AfricaThe $1.4 billion first phase of the bauxite project in the Boké Region, Guinea is already one of the biggest mining developments in Sub-Saharan Africa and yet has the scope to grow even larger in size...
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The great infra fund bean feast
Renewables EuropeIn a world ruled by data – its capture, storage and the limitless capacity for manipulation – one of the mainstays of an infra hack’s life is to anticipate market shifts based on hard facts and a...
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Kiamal Solar, Australia
Renewables Asia PacificSponsor Total Eren’s first solar farm in Australia has an unique feature – some five corporate power purchase agreements
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The public takeover of Alpiq, Switzerland
Renewables EuropeAs Switzerland phases out coal-fired and nuclear generation capacity, the country’s dependence on hydropower increases
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Ottawa’s ESAP P3, Canada
Renewables North AmericaOttawa’s project to modernise, maintain and operate the district energy system that heats 80 buildings and cools 67 buildings – including parliament buildings – in Canada’s capital region reached...
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Vías Chile bonds, Chile
Transport Latin AmericaVías Chile closed on 29 May the refinancing of a loan with the issuance of a bond in the Chilean stock exchange, the Bolsa de Santiago - sparking a future trend in the Chilean capital markets
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Sitra refinery expansion, Bahrain
Oil & Gas MENABahrain Petroleum Company's Sitra refinery expansion drew together five international ECAs over seven tranches that yet could have been much bigger if not for the late – but great – role played by...
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Taking US midstream & LNG to the next level
Oil & Gas North AmericaPresident Trump's executive orders to streamline federal permitting processes comes at a time when the US looks to develop its midstream infrastructure and position itself as a leading LNG exporter
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Freedom Gas – breaking new territory
Oil & Gas North AmericaIt’s an ill wind that blows a fresh nugget of jargon across our computer screens, and once again we have our cousins across The Pond to thank for it as they re-brand natural gas to “Freedom Gas”
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Ravenhall Prison PPP refinancing, Australia
Social & Defence Asia PacificThe US private placement refinancing of Ravenhall Prison PPP in Victoria has achieved a record tenor, going out to the end of the project's concession term in 2042
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Talasol Solar Farm, Spain
Renewables EuropeEllomay has financed this 300MW solar farm with only a partial power hedge, showing how Spain is leading the way in innovative renewable energy deals