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Bindoo - project finance the Airtricity way
Renewables EuropeJune saw Airtricity wrap up financing for yet another Irish wind farm - Bindoo. Nothing much to write home about there. But as the mild panic that precedes any financial close gave way to an eerie calm, it became clear that a subtle shift had taken place.
Scotland's South Lanarkshire schools PFI
Social & Defence EuropeThe UK's largest schools PFI for Scotland's South Lanarkshire council closed on 29 June 2006 with a record-breaking education bond issue worth up to £352.2 million (US$650m)
Bristol Building Schools for the Future
Social & Defence EuropeThe close of Bristol Building Schools for the Future (BSF) project creates the UK's first Local Education Partnership (LEP) - a new breed of strategic partnership tying consortia to local councils for multi-deal programmes
Ras Abu Fontas B2
Power MENARas Abu Fontas B2 (RAFB2) - an upgrade of an existing IWPP in the Gulf state of Qatar - closed last week, with US$485.5 million in financing from six MLAs and some of the most aggressive pricing on any deal in the region.
Nottinghamshire's pathfinder waste PFI
Renewables EuropeVeolia Environmental Services and Nottinghamshire County Council have closed the groundbreaking £140m waste management PFI project - writes Angus Leslie Melville
Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal
Power Asia PacificThe refinancing of Queensland's Dalrymple Bay coal terminal - which accounts for 6 per cent of the world's coal trade - comes at the confluence of the two major trends in Australian project financing.
Birmingham Acute and Adult Psychiatric Hospitals PFI
Social & Defence EuropeThe project to build a new 1,213 bed hospital and mental health centre to serve the UK's second largest city reached close this week becoming the tightest-margined healthcare deal to close this year.
University of Sheffield accommodation project
Social & Defence EuropeA Bovis Lend Lease and HSBC Infrastructure Funds consortium went to the debt capital markets to fund a project to consolidate and renew a large part of the University of Sheffield's Student Accommodation portfolio under a PFI-like structure
SHARQ Petrochemicals at Jubail
Oil & Gas MENAThe key driver in the expansion of the SHARQ petrochemicals facility was an agreement with Saudi Aramco whereby the monopoly hydrocarbons firm would provide an increased ethane feedstock for an upgraded complex at Jubail.
Northern Ireland's Alpha water PPP
Oil & Gas EuropeAfter a fitful start, Northern Irish PPP has finally started to boom. For years the region's unstable political environment and the mixed results of devolution obstructed development (IJ Opinion 24 March.) But with a rash of PPPs on the drawing board and