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Data Analysis: Chile's improving PPP pipeline

Chile's Ministry of Public Works (MOP) has slowly increased the number of PPPs awarded to the private sector over the last four-plus years, according to the IJGlobal database

The role of the US DoE in liquid markets

The US Department of Energy (DoE) this week announced a new initiative to facilitate renewables investment – the Clean Energy Impact Investment Center

Data Analysis: Vietnam’s sluggish power

International lenders have a strong appetite to finance power and energy in Vietnam but a paucity of projects means it is more famine than feast

US airport PPPs: A slow take-off

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has finally awarded a concession for the refurbishment of LaGuardia Airport's Central Terminal Building to a private sector consortium

North Carolina Interstate 77, US

The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) $648 million Interstate 77 toll lanes project is the first PPP for the department

A66 Benavente-Zamora PPP refinancing, Spain

Meridiam, Cintra and Acciona's refinancing of difficult 2013 bank debt for the A66 Benavente-Zamora is innovative and paves the way for project bonds for infrastructure in Spain

Data Analysis: The pace of financial close

Germany, Canada and Australia average the shortest periods between preferred bidder and financial close among countries with PPP programmes

Spanish and Dutch most efficient for PPP procurement

Spain and the Netherlands have been the fastest countries on average to bring projects from tender launch to financial close in the last five years, according to IJGlobal’s data

New debt and equity products for Uruguayan wind

Debt - and equity - capital markets will play a bigger role in Uruguayan renewables

Data Analysis: Financing in Australia's cooler renewables climate

The news this week that the Australian federal government has finally reached an agreement with the opposition Labor party over the renewable energy target (RET) should breathe some life into the country's dormant renewables market

Freeport LNG train three, Texas

Export liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in the US have gradually added new complexities to the financing structures

The splintering of European utilities

European utilities are concluding that renewables and conventional power are no longer suited to coexist peacefully within a single utility

Data Analysis: UK PV refinancing volumes increasing

UK photovoltaic (PV) debt refinancing volumes have increased in almost every quarter since Q4 2013, and reached $126 million in the first quarter of this year. Refinancings in Q1 2015 increased $36 million over Q4 2014

The impacts of Acwa Power’s low tariff bids

Saudi Arabia-based developer Acwa Power has again bid lowest in an open tender for a power project in the Middle East and Africa

The Aggregator, UK

The UK’s Private Finance 2 (PF2) procurement model has faced few tests. But the initial results are impressive – the March 2015 closings of three discrete batches of schools that, despite different concessionaires, rely on a single financing vehicle

Data Analysis: Nepal's tempting hydropower sector

Nepal’s hydropower sector is about to shift from moribund to growing