Analysis Archive

  • Friday The 13th – Attack of the Infra Zombie Ponzi

    They’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...

  • Going nuclear in the UK… slowly and over budget

    The 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...

  • IJGlobal Podcast – US midstream and the AI boom

    Richard 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...

  • Casablanca's renewable desal plant

    As 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...

  • Trams in the UK… tramendous

    Memory’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...

  • Carbon – from ridiculous to silicate

    You 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...

  • Infra Dig – offshore wind in Asia

    Offshore 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...

  • HyNet’s Liverpool Bay CCS – capital flows

    Carbon 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...

  • The infrastructure stink list

    When you’re wondering what not to do – as opposed to, what to do – look around and spot the infrastructure investor/lender who says: “Hold my beer, I’m off to do EV charging, CCS and fibre.” You might...

  • Chile's Los Rios-Los Lagos hospital PPPs

    The Los Rios-Los Lagos hospitals package reached financial close in February 2025, taking 5 years from announcement to final signing and overcoming significant hurdles to get construction underway.

  • Aberdeen – Core Convictions

    Freshly re-renamed Aberdeen closed its third core infrastructure fund at €585 million in early February. IJGlobal sat down with Dominic Helmsley and Maciej Tarasiuk, heads of core infrastructure and...

  • Infra Dig – The Foresight Saga

    The Infra Dig podcast returns to its infrastructure fund interview format for this latest episode, interviewing 2 key players from UK-based clean energy investor Foresight Group...

  • Breaking wind offshore

    Offshore wind has long thrived in that dangerous territory between the devil and the deep blue sea. But these days it feels an awful lot more perilous than back in the market pioneering times… which...

  • The M&A bilateral bonanza

    When you’re rooting through the undergrowth for an editorial – chatting with folk around the industry – people are quick to caution against leaping to conclusions. And perhaps that's exactly what's...

  • SUSI’s sale of Lyngsåsa wind farm, Sweden

    SUSI Partners, via SUSI Renewable Energy Fund II, sold the Lyngsåsa onshore wind farm in Alvesta to Equinor in March – a deal that illustrates how SUSI applies its energy transition expertise by...

  • Dusting off while bracing for impact…

    It’s that time of year… that time when Team IJGlobal takes a deep breath, mops a collective brow and reflects on one heck of a busy year-to-date – while bracing for the next onslaught… which is never...