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Climate chaos
What is the future for renewables investment after the US pulls out of the Paris Climate Accord?
Interview: MUFG’s Colin Chen
Asia PacificThe world’s leading project finance bank has also dominated the Asia Pacific project finance league tables for several years. Colin Chen, who runs MUFG’s structured finance in Asia Oceania excluding Japan, explains the Japanese bank’s strategy going forward
The revival of bond insurance
Social & Defence EuropeWith a number of deals concluded over recent months featuring wrapped bonds, and more expected in the future, bond insurance seems to be enjoying a resurgence, a decade after the industry was all but completely destroyed by the financial crisis
Data analysis: The looming US gas giant
Power North AmericaLatching onto the economics provided by cheap natural gas in the US, gas-fired power plants are coming to market in droves
Marubeni and Jinko’s Sweihan solar, United Arab Emirates
Renewables MENAThe world’s largest solar project with 1,177MW of capacity reached financial close in May 2017. Sweihan offers the world’s lowest headline tariff for solar electricity and may mean Abu Dhabi can delay its next solar procurement
UK pension funds dip into water utilities
Water EuropeWhile infrastructure funds are the most prevalent shareholders of 25 regulated water utilities in England and Wales, the recent sale of Affinity Water is due to feature UK local authority pension funds co-investing alongside fund HICL
Interview: PLN’s Ahsin Sidqi
Renewables Asia PacificSponsors, bankers and lawyers have been pondering the implications of Indonesia’s new regulations on procuring power plants. PLN’s head of IPP procurement Ahsin Sidqi explains the new policy to IJGlobal
Puerto Rico's renewed PPP goals
Transport North AmericaDebt-ridden Caribbean island and US territory, Puerto Rico, has announced plans to resurrect its PPP programme with an ambitious pipeline of fresh projects across multiple sectors
Project procurement and delivery
Asia PacificThe UK, Canada and Australia are three of the most established private finance markets for infrastructure in the world. Lauded for easily accessible and transparent procurement and delivery mechanisms they are often a blueprint for emerging PPP markets
Borkum West Phase 2 offshore wind, Germany
Renewables EuropeThe 203MW, Borkum West Phase 2 €800 million ($870.4 million) offshore wind project off the coast of Germany is one of the last renewables projects to enjoy fixed feed-in tariff subsidy support from the German government
Chile’s conservative pipeline
Renewables Latin AmericaWhile other Latin American nations promise massive infrastructure programmes, Chile is taking a more conservative stance as it prepares for a change in government
Acwa Power’s project-backed bond, Saudi Arabia
Power MENASaudi Arabian developer Acwa Power’s recently closed project-backed bond issuance unlocks some $814 million in capital for the firm in what is its first investment-grade offering secured against operational assets
Pakistan’s power potential
Oil & Gas Asia PacificPakistan, a country where over 140 million people don’t have access to power, is investing heavily in its energy sector. And Asian investors are taking advantage
Japan's pension funds interest in infrastructure
Asia PacificOn 11 April 2017, The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) of Japan issued a call for asset managers of alternative assets, including infrastructure, private equity and real estate, to invest via fund of funds products that are set up as separate managed accounts for GPIF
California's infrastructure ambition
Transport North AmericaThe Californian State Legislature passed a historic bill in April to raise California gas taxes by $0.12 in an attempt to raise as much as $52 billion towards repairing the state's infrastructure over the next decade
PPP, transport and the need for diversity
Transport EuropeThe UK government has promised a new pipeline of PF2 projects by the spring. Naturally these things are often delayed. While the infrastructure market waits the hope is that the list of projects will include more than just transport