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  • Europe rides the high offshore winds

    Lyudmila Zlateva Renewables Europe

    The European offshore wind sector continues to grow apace. A couple of major projects have reached financial close over the summer, others are reaching commercial operation, and new capacity auctions...

  • How to tie a noose…

    Angus Leslie Melville Telecoms Europe

    You know it’s grim on the street when you idly google “how to tie a noose” while on the phone to an old chum (surprisingly easy, it turns out) as he drones on that – even though there’s actually quite...

  • Japan solar: sunset on greenfield

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Renewables Asia Pacific

    Generous feed-in-tariffs drove the growth of Japan’s solar market. But with the government cooling on solar, industry players expect new greenfield developments to dry up

  • Santa Vitoria do Palmar financing, Brazil

    Juliana Ennes Renewables Latin America

    IDB Invest recently closed a total credit guarantee to help finance Atlantic Renewable Energy's 207MW Santa Vitoria do Palmar wind complex in Rio Grande do Sul, in a peculiar transaction that saw the...

  • M25 road refinancing, UK

    Beatrice Mavroleon Transport Europe

    London’s orbital M25 motorway refinancing was the largest infrastructure refi seen in the UK since the Intercity Express deal of 2015

  • Panama weighs up the alternatives

    Lyudmila Zlateva & Sophia Radeva Latin America

    Early last week the governments of the US and Panama signed a memorandum of understanding to promote energy and infrastructure investments in the Central American country. A particular focus of the...

  • Los Angeles Automated People Mover, US

    Angus Leslie Melville Transport North America

    As a mass-transit solution, California’s $2.5 billion Los Angeles Automated People Mover breaks new ground for financing in the US, delivering a 2.25 mile elevated electric train system, connecting...

  • Mexico readies for power auction amid uncertainty

    Juliana Ennes Renewables Latin America

    Mexico's fourth round of power auctions will happen before the new government takes power, but AMLO's administration has already started to release policy changes

  • Belgian offshore wind: betting on zero

    Elliot Hayes Renewables Europe

    Late last month (July 2018), following approval from the European commission, planned Belgian offshore wind farm Seastar and Mermaid merged. This union was prompted by Eneco joining Otary and...

  • Bangladeshi infra: cosmic ambitions

    Sophia Radeva Asia Pacific

    Bangladesh is making headway on some of its Vision 2121 targets, but the country has been slow to bridge its yawning infrastructure investment gap

  • India solar: targets and reality

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Renewables Asia Pacific

    One of the world’s fastest growing renewables markets has ambitious goals and a government upbeat on meeting them. But is New Delhi too optimistic?

  • The UK’s broadband bonanza

    Lyudmila Zlateva & Stefaniya Dyulgerova Telecoms Europe

    The UK's broadband roll-out has so far attracted significant private capital, and a growing number of investment opportunities are appearing on the horizon

  • REIPPP revived

    Jon Whiteaker Renewables Sub-Saharan Africa

    After a delay of more than two years, all 27 of the projects procured under the fourth round of South Africa’s renewable energy IPP programme have now reached financial close – or at least it appears...

  • A65 Autoroute de Gascogne toll road refinancing, France

    Beatrice Mavroleon Transport Europe

    Although concerns over traffic volumes on France’s A65 Autoroute de Gascogne toll road seem to have lessened since it became operational in the wake of the financial crisis, a recent refinancing...

  • From higher education to social infra

    Ila Patel Social & Defence North America

    The P3 market in the US is now no longer limited to just the transport sector. It is not even about individual states anymore either. Over the last few years, the focus has shifted to universities...

  • Namibia's solar solution

    Sophia Radeva Renewables Sub-Saharan Africa

    Namibia has undertaken a series of reforms in an attempt to reduce its dependency on electricity imports and attract IPPs into the country's power sector – and it is starting to see results via solar...

  • Unstoppable rise of the mega fund

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas North America

    As we stare down the barrels of the summer lull having published IJGlobal’s league tables and the IJInvestor funds report for H1 2018, this infra hack is currently horsing up the M6 to Edinburgh to...

  • The NEG: Certainty in Australia at last?

    Alexandra Dockreay Renewables Asia Pacific

    The Australian renewables industry has been craving regulatory certainty. A solution could finally be close, with an energy council session scheduled for 10 August (2018) to vote on the final design...

  • LatAm healthcare PPPs – just what the doctor ordered

    Sophia Radeva Social & Defence Latin America

    Latin America’s healthcare demand has been steadily increasing, outpacing supply, and has created a thirst for more infrastructure across the region



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