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Data Analysis: Strong fundraising pace in 2017
Oil & Gas North AmericaThe final close of Global Infrastructure Partners III (GIP III) at $15.8 billion has pushed total funds raised globally in the first month of 2017 to some $23 billion
Who owns your electricity grid?
Power Asia PacificElectricity distribution assets are considered to be some of the most critical infrastructure in a country. Many developed markets have openly questioned the national security implications of foreign ownership of such infrastructure assets, particularly by Chinese investors
European equity leads US infrastructure investment
Transport North AmericaInternational investors including European, Australian and Canadian sponsors lead the equity investment in the majority of the deals that closed in 2016
KalSel coal-fired power, Indonesia
Power Asia PacificAfter five years, sponsors Adaro and Korea East-West Power have reached financial close this week on their 2x100MW $540 million KalSel coal-fired independent power producer (IPP) project
Bigger blades, lower costs
Renewables EuropeAs European offshore wind construction prices fall, wind turbine sizes are scaling up
Can MENA solar prices continue downward momentum?
Renewables MENASolar development is continuing apace in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with Saudi Arabia announcing plans for up to $50 billion of renewables projects by 2030. With bid pricing per kWh dropping substantially in recent years, can price reductions continue at this speed?
UK construction: skills shortages, industry fragmentation and Brexit
Power EuropeThe £130 billion ($160 billion) UK construction industry is facing a number of challenges. Not least among them are skills shortages and industry fragmentation
3i's acquisition of EISER Global Infrastructure Fund portfolio
Renewables EuropeIn December 2016 EISER agreed to sell the portfolio of the mature EISER Global Infrastructure Fund to a new 3i-managed fund vehicle, funded by existing LPs and new pension fund capital. Increasingly fund managers are finding solutions to allow LPs of closed-ended funds to stay invested, at a time when high liquidity means reinvestment risk is not welcomed
Data Analysis: Chile leads LatAm infra finance in 2016
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaChile was the most active infrastructure finance market in Latin America during 2016
Is the clean energy transformation irreversible?
Renewables North AmericaAn exploration of outgoing US President Barack Obama's assertion that the renewable energy transition is an irreversible trend
Data Analysis: North American PE in Latin America
Oil & Gas Latin AmericaA number of US and Canadian PE firms made it into IJGlobal’s infrastructure finance sponsors’ league table for Latin America in 2016
Iranian sanctions under a Trump Presidency
Asia PacificUS President-elect Donald Trump recently branded the deal lifting sanctions against Iran as “horrible” and has instead suggested doubling the sanctions already in place. With the President-elect’s inauguration next week, what power does he have to follow through on these remarks?
Data Analysis: India solar powers up
Renewables Asia PacificIn 2016 the total installed solar generating capacity in India nearly doubled and in 2017 capacity is set to double up again
Repercussions of DAPL denial
Oil & Gas North AmericaPresident-elect Trump’s friendly stance toward oil and gas production in the US DOE Secretary Rick Perry’s status as an ETP board member may not be enough to save the most controversial pipeline project in North America since Keystone XL
Data Analysis: Power deals spike amid MENA market decline
Oil & Gas MENAWhile 2016 saw a resurgence in the total value of power deals closed in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the wider infrastructure market endured a steep decline in activity during the year
France's evolving energy policy
Renewables EuropeThink of France’s energy sector and you’ll likely think of nuclear: but things are slowly changing