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  • League tables & funds – a game of one half

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan Africa

    It’s been a busy time for IJ with our half-yearly league tables for global infrastructure and project finance and the H1 2018 funds and investor report – the finishing touches to which have been put...

  • Meza la Paz wind farm, Mexico

    Juliana Ennes Renewables Latin America

    The Mesa la Paz wind project may have started a new way of financing energy projects in the country, with bonds covering both construction period and a long-term PPA.

  • 1MDB: the reckoning

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Oil & Gas Asia Pacific

    The 1Malaysia Development scandal that swept the opposition into power is turning into a reckoning for $22 billion worth of China-backed infrastructure projects

  • Estonia runs before the wind

    Lyudmila Zlateva Renewables Europe

    Estonia will need to make a big push in the renewables space to stay on track to achieve its renewable energy targets for 2030. And this is likely to involve massive deployment of wind energy

  • Does Ijmuiden lock signal more woes for BAM?

    Beatrice Mavroleon Transport Europe

    This month saw European construction giants BAM and VolkerWessels announce a second cost overrun due to continuing problems with the Ijmuiden lock project in the Netherlands. This time, the overrun...

  • Canadian PPP efficiency

    Yavor Guerdjikov Transport North America

    Canadian provinces are undertaking colossal pipelines of PPPs but have a formidable record of bringing them to financial close

  • The Mexican infra revolution

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Latin America

    Few things throw a cat among the pigeons more effectively for a national infrastructure programme than a change in political leadership – and that’s precisely what’s happened in Mexico

  • Acquisition of Cory Riverside Energy, UK

    Alexandra Dockreay Renewables Europe

    When a consortium led by London-based infrastructure fund manager Dalmore Capital emerged as preferred bidder in the sale of UK energy-from-waste company Cory Riverside Energy, there was some surprise...

  • Borssele III/IV offshore wind, Netherlands

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    Blauwwind II reached financial close on Dutch offshore wind farms Borssele III/IV at the end of June, concluding the two-year procurement on the $1.7 billion greenfield deal that stands out for...

  • Indonesia talks the PPP talk

    Sophia Radeva Power Asia Pacific

    Indonesia's National Development Planning Agency recently announced that it has committed $3.4 billion in state funds for infrastructure investment in 2019

  • World Cup 2018 – the infra pitch

    Angus Leslie Melville Latin America

    When it comes to an international showdown, I have to admit that infrastructure’s a lot closer to my heart than football (forgive me, I’m Scottish). However, in the spirit day as the World Cup 2018...

  • Belt & Road: China's Malacca dilemma

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Transport Asia Pacific

    Once the key pillar of China’s Belt & Road initiative, the Malaysian opposition’s election victory in May has raised questions about Beijing’s strategy going forward

  • A rocky road ahead for Argentina's PPPs

    Nikola Yankulov & Sophia Radeva Latin America

    The recent award of six toll roads in Argentina should have been a moment of triumph for President Mauricio Macri's government, which has made increased infrastructure investment a priority. But the...

  • France bites bullet – softly – on subsidies

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    France has bitten the bullet on subsidies for the first two rounds of its offshore wind programme, slashing them from an eye-watering €200 per MW over 20 years to a – let’s be honest – still pretty...

  • Ituango hydro: hopes for sunrise over flooded lands

    Juliana Ennes Renewables Latin America

    The almost literally collapsing Ituango hydropower project in Colombia may open the way to a faster development of renewables in the country

  • New York sees a green future

    Yavor Guerdjikov Renewables North America

    The state of New York in March announced both that it was awarding 26 large-scale renewables projects worth $1.4 billion, and that it had requested to be excluded from the federal offshore oil and gas...

  • Norway – Alt for Norge

    Angus Leslie Melville Transport Europe

    In a European infrastructure market that has been dominated in recent times by refinancing and acquisitions, it seems counter-intuitive to focus on greenfield PPP developments, but hopes springs...

  • A30 toll road refinancing, Canada

    Jon Whiteaker Transport North America

    The refinancing of a project which was intended to divert traffic away from Montreal Island has steered a whole load of Canadian paper across the southern border and into the hands of US investors – a...

  • DFI lending in Rwanda

    Nikola Yankulov Power Sub-Saharan Africa

    Since President Paul Kagame launched his country's Vision 2020 development plan in 2000, substantial progress has been made on improving Rwanda's infrastructure



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