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Cirata floating solar, Indonesia

Civi Yap 03 Sep 2021 Renewables Asia Pacific

Indonesia's first floating solar power project earlier this month achieved financial close – amid the market's long wait for state-owned utility company PLN to release its electricity supply business plan for the next decade. IJGlobal speaks with Cirata's sponsors including the Indonesian majority owner and Masdar

Cardones-Polpaico transmission refi, Chile

Carmen Arroyo Nieto 31 Aug 2021 Power Latin America

In a deal that took almost a year to close, Interchile, a subsidiary of Colombia's Interconexion Electrica, raised $1.2 billion of bonds to refinance a sprawling transmission portfolio interconnecting the entire northern half of Chile

Case Study: Cardones-Polpaico, Chile

Carmen Arroyo 26 Aug 2021 Power Latin America

In a deal that took almost a year to close, Interchile, a subsidiary of Colombia's Interconexion Electrica (ISA), raised about $1.2 billion of bonds to refinance a sprawling transmission portfolio interconnecting the entire northern half of Chile.

The saviour of Southern Water?

Arran Brown 25 Aug 2021 Water Europe

Earlier this month Macquarie made a return to ownership of one of the UK’s worst performing water companies – Southern Water. If it can turn it around, the rewards it will reap are not confined to the financial

Tilt Renewables takeover, Australia/NZ

Maya Chavvakula 23 Aug 2021 Renewables Asia Pacific

While the calendar year is a long way from over and it is never wise to call a market leader in August, the takeover of Tilt Renewables has all the hallmarks of logging the accolade for being one of the largest M&A deal in the alternative energy sector for 2021

DigitalBridge – the digital infra pioneer

Angus Leslie Melville 23 Aug 2021 Telecoms North America

DigitalBridge Chief Executive Officer, Marc Ganzi speaks to IJGlobal about the potential for global digital infrastructure investment and the pioneering role his firm plays in this space

Defining the digital revolution

Angus Leslie Melville 23 Aug 2021 Telecoms Europe

Sara Pickersgill – co-head of Allen & Overy’s global infrastructure group – and her colleagues speak to IJGlobal about digital infra and the rapidly-evolving landscape

Infrafintech – problems, solutions & securitisation

David Doré 23 Aug 2021 Telecoms Asia Pacific

Fintech has disrupted nearly all aspects of financial services. However, the impact of fintech on infrastructure – or infrafintech – has been one of the weakest links, finds IJGlobal APAC editor David Doré. It’s time for that torpid state to change…

Telsiai Wind Farm, Lithuania

Anna Cole-Bailey 20 Aug 2021 Renewables Europe

E Energija and GE Energy Financial Services have refinanced the 68.9MW Telšiai onshore wind farm which is on track to become Lithuania’s largest wind park – unsubsidised – when it comes online at the start of 2022

Playing chicken with US renewable tax credits

Taryana Odayar 20 Aug 2021 Renewables North America

Now that the Biden administration's $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill has passed muster in the Senate, market participants are turning their attention to a larger $3.5 trillion reconciliation package that the Progressive Caucus is attempting to tie it to. The reconciliation package contains a slew of tax credit incentives for renewable energy projects. So what lies ahead in Washington,DC?

And the winner is… the Mexican Army!

Angus Leslie Melville 20 Aug 2021 Transport Latin America

Few things warm the heart of an infra hack more than projects being won… but when it comes to airports in Mexico, that’s more likely to elicit wails of anguish. The latest development on the ground (not so much in the air) is a farce of monumental proportions – on a similar scale, indeed, to the scrapping the under-construction airport in 2018