Analysis Archive
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Moray West offshore wind farm, Scotland
Renewables EuropeThe Moray West wind farm off the coast of Scotland reached financial close earlier this year. The FC was slightly later than originally planned because, as a source put it, “there was no urgent need...
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Infra Dig – On.Energy’s Alan Cooper
Renewables North AmericaIn a world where energy storage is playing an increasingly essential role to counteract renewable energy-related intermittency issues, attention is firmly focused on this sector… and that goes for the...
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CIB: $3bn and counting in clean energy investments
Renewables North AmericaThe Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) has ramped up investing in recent times with $3 billion deployed in clean energy projects – out of a near $10 billion total – and having doubled its cumulative...
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Materials funds: investing in the transition
Renewables EuropeThe appearance this quarter of 2 funds dedicated to materials associated with the energy transition demonstrates a new phase of the maturation of the transition, but also an awareness of obstacles...
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Analysis: Chile starts storage onrush
Renewables Latin AmericaDuring Chile’s annual Cuenta Publica presidential speech held in Congress on June 1, Gabriel Boric announced that the government was working on a bill to tender 5.4GW of large-scale energy storage...
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Infra Dig – floating Gazelle Wind Power
Renewables EuropeJon Salazar – founder and chief executive of Gazelle Wind Power – joins the Infra Dig podcast to run listeners through his fascinating company that is driving innovation in the floating offshore wind...
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Renewables – windswept and interesting
Renewables EuropeLet’s start on the right foot with today’s editorial… we’re not calling the offshore wind market, suggesting the party’s over – far from it
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Palisade's unique twist to RE portfolio refinancing
Renewables Asia PacificPalisade's recent $869m portfolio refinancing facility is a telltale of a growing Australian trend of consolidating operational assets into a single platform. IJGlobal shares more insights from the...
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Oil giants embrace CO2 sequestration while US Government boosts support
Power North AmericaBig businesses have begun to move on carbon capture while the US government spurs advancements in the emerging sector through its Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s (BIL) tax credits, loans and grants.
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Infra Dig – recruiting Dan McCarthy
Renewables North AmericaThere are key stages in everyone’s career, chief among them being when you change jobs. These landmarks, as often as not, involve a specialist head hunter… and in the infra/energy space, that’s likely...
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Bogotá-Girardot toll road, Colombia
Transport Latin AmericaThe Bogotá-Girardot toll road PPP project reached FC in early May 2023, finalising a protracted process started in 2015 – when the concession was first announced
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Drax the latest in IRA-backed foreign investment surge
Renewables North AmericaThe US power sector is experiencing a remarkable influx of foreign investments, with companies from across the globe pouring billions of dollars into clean energy projects bolstered by the Inflation...
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The 3 Cs of PPPs
Power EuropeMost of those reading this piece will have come across me on a project finance deal
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US offshore wind industry – outlook
Renewables North AmericaAccording to the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, the offshore wind energy project pipeline in the US has currently reached a total of 40GW of capacity, writes...
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Yeu-Noirmoutier and Le Treport offshore wind farms, France
Renewables EuropeThe Îles d'Yeu and Noirmoutier and Le Treport offshore wind farms in France have hit several speed bumps over their decade long development phase to reach financial close last month backed by a...
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Analysis: Solar tariff threat re-emerges in US
Renewables North AmericaPresident Biden's suspension of tariffs on solar panels from four Southeast Asian nations was repealed by the US Senate, threatening solar projects while American solar panel manufacturing gets up and...
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Let battle lines be drawn… some more
Renewables EuropeHaving penned a few words for our marketing team to plug our splendid data offering, 2 thoughts occurred… renewable energy comes second to oil and gas in Q1… and why am I doing their jobs for them
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Infra Dig – African digital infra
Telecoms Sub-Saharan AfricaThe IJGlobal podcast – Infra Dig – makes a late start to 2023 with its first episode, this one focused on the digital infrastructure opportunity in Africa
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Analysis: Financing a renewable future
North AmericaThe move towards a greener US power industry through investments in new clean energy technologies is being aided by government policy and dollars, but risks remain for all participants with a number...