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Mundra UMPP - India's US$4bn international clarion call
Power Asia PacificTata Power's 4,000MW coal-fired Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) in Gujarat, India, reached financial close late last month and brought the booming Indian power sector to the focus of the international project finance community
Infrastructure Australia and the Australian PPP market
Social & Defence Asia PacificDeal flow in the Australian PPP market continues with a growing pipeline of social infrastructure and transport deals, while the introduction of Infrastructure Australia has established a nationwide body that will co-ordinate infrastructure developme
Investing in Indian infra - too much of a good thing?
Oil & Gas Asia PacificLast week, India's first Ultra Mega Power Plant (UMPP) reached US$4 billion financial close. It promises to be the first of a series - and is an indication of the seriousness with which the country is tackling its infrastructure deficit. That is being mat
Havsnäs Wind: Renewable PF blows into Scandinavia
Renewables EuropeProject financing for the Havsnäs wind farm in Sweden closed on 27 March, demonstrating that infrastructure funds are able to assess and assume variable pricing for wind energy in market-based regimes that do not offer long-term contracts
Qatar: Ras Abu Fontas Desalination Plant
Water MENAQatar has closed the project financing of its latest desalination plant, in line with the Gulf state's pledge to invest more than US$140 billion in infrastructure before 2015
The credit crunch refi – Suez Gulf and Port Said East
Power MENAOn 25 March, Calyon, BNP Paribas and SMBC reached financial close on the US$637 million refinancing of Tanjong's Suez Gulf and Port Said East gas-fired IPPs in Egypt