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Editor’s Choice MENA – Umm al Quwain IWP
Water MENAIJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville taps MEA reporter James Hebert’s wisdom to choose the inaugural winner of the Editor’s Choice Award for the MENA region…
Editor’s Choice Europe – Wavemaster Horizon
Transport EuropeEditorial director Angus Leslie Melville singles out a peach of a deal – Wavemaster Horizon – for the inaugural winner of the IJGlobal Editor’s Choice Award for Europe
Area 1 LNG, Mozambique
Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan AfricaRecent events in Mozambique have occluded what was otherwise the most defining event in the African infrastructure project financing world of 2020 – the debt financing of the $22.6 billion Area 1 Mozambique LNG project in the Rovuma Basin
IJGlobal Awards 2020 – sign up to attend
Oil & Gas Asia PacificIn the absence of our famed IJGlobal awards nights – normally hosted in London, New York, Singapore and Dubai – we are bringing you all the thrills and spills of the night… virtually
Lightsource bp solar portfolio financing – Australia
Renewables Asia PacificInvestors in solar development in Australia seem to have 2 very different views of the sector. There are those actively looking to flee the market while others are rapidly expanding local portfolios
The Global Digital Infrastructure Survey 2021
Telecoms Asia PacificIJGlobal is delighted to join forces with international law firm Allen & Overy and our DI intelligence partner M&E Global to launch the second Global Digital Infrastructure Survey, sounding out international market sentiment for a booming sector
IJGlobal ESG Awards – The Judging Panel
Renewables Asia PacificWe are delighted to announce the judging panel for the inaugural IJGlobal ESG Awards that were launched last week
PJM term loan Bs trade down but are "hard to trip"
Power North AmericaSeveral term loan B deals trading in PJM Interconnection have taken a dip after clearing prices from the highly anticipated BRA for delivery year 2022/2023 were announced. But deal watchers say that this is unlikely to have a significant impact on revenues in the long run
Lotus wind portfolio financing, Vietnam
Renewables Asia PacificAs investors in Vietnam scramble to include their power projects in the country's now-delayed PDP8, the $252 million Lotus portfolio financing of wind farms on the north-central coast recently achieved financial close
Tough life awaits PJM peakers as long-awaited auction disappoints
Renewables North AmericaAfter two years of delay due to uncertainty over the Minimum Offer Price Rule, PJM Interconnection has finally concluded its Base Residual Auction for delivery year 2022 / 2023, although results from the highly-anticipated auction have fallen short of market participants' expectations
Aquila adds third LSE energy efficiency fund to mix as market heats up
Renewables EuropeAquila has introduced a third major energy efficiency fund to the London Stock Exchange, raising £100 million from its IPO
The value of risk... explicit pricing of risks can help
Renewables North AmericaExplicit pricing of physical risks can help promote investments in the infrastructure sector. David Espinoza, senior principal at Geosyntec Consulting, Washington, DC, delves into his alternative for discounted cash flow modelling
Cairo Monorail PPP, Egypt
Transport MENACairo Monorail Transit Project – a mass transit solution that is to be the longest monorail system in the world – quietly reached financial close late last year amid the coronavirus pandemic
Banks and investors begin to walk the ESG talk
Renewables EuropeESG considerations are starting to carry real financial weight, as is visible from the flurry of recent ESG-linked financings in the infrastructure market
The HIPpest project on the street
Renewables EuropeA curious renewable energy / transmission project has dinged the European radar at IJGlobal… but while it’s always nice to write about a new deal being rolled out, this one has an uncomfortably similar scent to a project of a few years back
Curtis Island LNG stake sale, Australia
Oil & Gas Asia PacificThe rapid rise of renewables over the last decade has led to an increasing number of countries shunning fossil fuels, but if Shell’s recent sale of minority stake in its Curtis Island LNG plant is anything to go by, there is still a healthy appetite for natural gas among investors