Analysis Archive
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M&A in the Covid-19 epoch: APAC perspective
Oil & Gas Asia PacificCovid-19's impact appeared first in listed markets. Investors in late January were slowly pricing in the disruptions. Today, however, a popular Asia Pacific infrastructure index shows not a prolonged...
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Falling off a cliff – infra style
Oil & Gas EuropeAs you look out there – virtually, of course, as you shouldn’t be going further than the end of your road unless it’s to load up with a couple of hundred-weight of bog roll – it’s a curiously vibrant...
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Primary Energy Recycling Corporation, US
Renewables North AmericaWind and solar are the obvious choices for sustainability-focused energy infrastructure investors, but for one fund manager, a portfolio of waste-heat-to-power plants supplying steel mills in the...
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Hydrogen: unlocking the green grid
Power EuropeLarge-scale hydrogen production could rapidly accelerate the transition to carbon neutrality. No country has yet developed a regulatory framework for this emerging sector, despite growing investor...
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Pamplona-Cúcuta Highway, Colombia
Transport Latin AmericaThe $520 million Pamplona-Cúcuta highway, one of Colombia's stalled 4G projects, stuttered to financial close amid the Covid-19 pandemic
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Infra technology – donkeys led by geeks
Telecoms North AmericaIf the coronavirus lockdown has taught us anything, it is that we’re more reliant now on technology than we ever have been to fulfil our functions… and you better believe this reliance is going to...
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49.99% acquisition of Altice Portugal FTTH
Telecoms EuropeYesterday, Altice and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners concluded the latter’s acquisition of a 49.99% stake in Altice’s Portuguese fibre network
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More smoke than fire in standalone batteries
Renewables North AmericaA coterie of developers, project finance lenders and equity investors have been jockeying for position on the front line of a widely-tipped tidal wave of standalone battery storage deals for years...
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Nobody does air-quotes any more
Renewables EuropeThere’s been a very quiet revolution over the last month that hardly anyone has noticed… because we’re all working from home. This seismic shift has been in the attitude to WFH, if you’ll excuse what...
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Covid-19: Coping strategies for APAC
Oil & Gas Asia PacificDuring the first half of April (2020) IJGlobal has been asking 10 project finance lenders and advisers across Asia Pacific financial hubs Sydney and Singapore, Beijing and Hong Kong about the impacts...
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Covid-19 – The resilience of energy funds
Renewables EuropeWhile the airport and road sectors have been hit pretty heavily by the outbreak of Covid-19, the energy space is proving resilient
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Central Penn Gas Pipeline, Pennyslvania
Oil & Gas North AmericaOne the last remaining publicly-listed renewable energy yield companies in the US, NextEra Energy Partners, made a major fossil fuel investment last year when it acquired a stake in the 185-mile...
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The great infra coverage up
Transport EuropeA significant date in the project finance calendar – 31 March – slid past this week with little remark, but as we cringe our way through the financial Armageddon that is coronavirus, it’s unlikely...
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ANI's president on the 5G road programme
Transport Latin AmericaStalled Fourth Generation (4G) road PPPs in Colombia will not delay the government launching the revamped 5G programme but the Covid-19 pandemic will, Manuel Felipe Gutiérrez, president of the...
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Gulf Pluak Daeng CCGT, Thailand
Power Asia PacificChina’s first confirmed Covid-19 case has been traced back to 17 November 2019. A day later and thousands of kilometres away, Gulf and Mitsui & Co had reached financial close on the $1.66 billion Gulf...
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Ibri II solar PV, Oman
Renewables MENAOman’s first utility-scale, grid connected renewable energy project reached financial close just as the world entered economic turmoil caused by the Covid-19 pandemic