• 4G Colombian road sets new financing standard

    Juliana Ennes Transport Latin America

    The financing of the road Ruta al Mar may represent a new financing paradigm with a combination of bonds and loans; first private international emission; use of local currency.

  • PCOAs and PRGs: Solar protection in Nigeria

    Jordan Bintcliffe Renewables Sub-Saharan Africa

    Solar developers in Nigeria are aiming to reach financial close on 14 PV projects totaling 1,125MW of capacity this year. But the ambitious programme still has a number of hurdles to clear

  • The new year – back for another swing

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Asia Pacific

    A couple of (hopefully) amusing anecdotes, a preview of our league tables which will be published in a couple of weeks' time and mulling the awards for which we shall hosting judging sessions over the course of this month

  • A final hurrah for 2017

    Angus Leslie Melville Transport

    And so the year draws to a close and here’s the final missive for 2017, delivered six months after returning to the IJ fold after a break of seven years – the first four at the infra title that doesn’t warrant mention and three highly-enjoyable ones in head hunting...

  • New rolling stock lessors continue to challenge ROSCOs

    Beatrice Mavroleon Transport Europe

    The UK’s recent West Midlands rolling stock deal marks another slice of the sector taken from the traditional rolling stock operating companies (ROSCOs Angel Trains, Porterbrook, and Eversholt) by challenger lessors

  • Waste PPP projects – trials and tribunals

    Angus Leslie Melville Social & Defence Europe

    The waste sector has ever been a tricky one for PPP and the latest English project to be tangled up in legal battles serves as a cautionary tale for the global infrastructure sector. Essex County Council and the SPV contracted to deliver and operate the MBT plant – Tovi Eco Park – in Basildon have gone to war...

  • Australia's corporate PPAs

    Alexandra Dockreay Renewables Asia Pacific

    With PPAs increasingly hard to come by from the utilities, the busy solar market is looking to corporate PPAs to take the booming number of planned projects across the financing line

  • Meeting future demand

    Nikola Yankulov & Sophia Radeva Oil & Gas Sub-Saharan Africa

    East African LNG export projects have a window of opportunity to cash in on future market demand

  • Bankers worried about low Mexican electricity prices

    Juliana Ennes Renewables Latin America

    Low prices on the third long-term power auction are at the same time seen as a measure of the success of the Mexican energy reform and as a cause for concern

  • Infrastructure funds – big news

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Asia Pacific

    In the same week that IJGlobal goes live with our infrastructure funds database – IJInvestor – it feels appropriate to turn the focus on an interesting trend in the equity space: the rise of technical advisers as investors.

  • French transport – foot off the pedal

    Angus Leslie Melville Transport Europe

    As the European infrastructure market – road and rail – wallows in the doldrums, it seems to be the same things keeping everyone busy, and that’s refinance opportunities. However, when it comes to greenfield, few markets are stagnating as much as France

  • Gulf tensions chill Lebanon’s development

    Jordan Bintcliffe Oil & Gas MENA

    DFI-backed projects in Lebanon appear to be on ice after Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri resigned earlier this month. The latest instability is likely to further hinder project financings in the country

  • Goldmans – making PF bankers grind their teeth

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Europe

    Talking to sources in the market this week, it was fascinating to hear that Goldman Sachs booked the biggest single profit event for the previous two years on HS1 – the high-speed rail line from London to the English end of the Channel Tunnel

  • Global equity funds dominate 2017 fundraising

    Viola Caon Oil & Gas Europe

    Among unlisted, closed-ended infrastructure funds reaching final close in 2017, strategies geared towards global equity investments have taken up a vast chunk of the total capital raised

  • Infra banks – a crutch Canada does not need

    Angus Leslie Melville Transport North America

    What a week it’s been for Canadian infrastructure. Ontario retains its title as the world’s most attractive infra market while the government steps in with a move it hopes will “crowd in” – rather than “crowd out” – project lending to drive future nationwide investments

  • Bursa hospital exposes lender limits in Turkey

    Beatrice Mavroleon Social & Defence Europe

    Turkish hospital deals are becoming increasingly dependent on DFI and Asian bank debt, as local and European lenders seem less than keen on extending their exposure to the market

  • Fort McMurray West transmission, Canada

    Rene Lavanchy Power North America

    In December 2014, Alberta Electric System Operator awarded the Fort McMurray West transmission line project to Alberta PowerLine, a consortium of Atco-controlled Canadian Utilities (80%) and electrical engineering contractor Quanta Services (20%)

  • US LNG glut

    Yavor Guerdjikov Oil & Gas North America

    Investing in US LNG export projects looks increasingly risky, as a flooded market forces sponsors to accept more flexible and shorter-term sales contracts. This is quite a change of direction for a market more or less still in its infancy.

  • Making bubbles while the sun shines

    Angus Leslie Melville Renewables Asia Pacific

    It always pays to keep a weather eye out for the next financial bubble, after all, we’ve seen enough of them in recent times to warrant wariness. Right now there’s a splendid one brewing in the international renewable energy space that should have you all bracing for impact



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