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Rizziconi Energia CCGT
Power EuropeAfter the fireworks of the early part of the decade and subsequent lull, the liberalised Italian power market is finally starting to bear fruit.
Rabigh refining and petrochemical project
Oil & Gas MENAPETRORabigh's US$5.8 billion financing is the largest project financing ever to take place in Saudi Arabia and gave a substantial shot in the arm to the country's efforts to become the next big thing on the project finance scene
Puerta de Hierro hospital in Madrid: Spain’s flagship PFI hospital
Social & Defence EuropeThe Puerta de Hierro hospital near Madrid closed on 24 February 2006 as Spain's first-ever PFI hospital deal. As the first such project to close - and be awarded - in the whole of Spain, the hospital in Majadahonda serves not only as a template for the se
Thailand's Ratchaburi IPP - a power project of its time
Power Asia PacificAlmost nine years after the financial crisis ripped through the southeast Asian 'tigers', Thailand has bounced back to a situation of relative economic stability - reflected in healthy economic growth rates of 6 per cent, total FDI of some US$7.5bn in 200
Golden Ears Bridge PPP, Canada
Transport North AmericaGreater Vancouver's Can$1.04bn Golden Ears Bridge DBFO has turned out to be the single most remarkable P3 schemes to have closed in Canada. It serves as a beacon on a provincial and national level as well as standing alone as a groundbreaker in the North
The first wave of French prison PPPs
Social & Defence EuropeFrance's groundbreaking PPP prison construction programme got off to a flying at the end of February with the swift close of the first wave of projects, soon to be followed by the second and third such deals. It closed swiftly and with two French banks ac
ASAlliances Biofuels Ethanol portfolio
Renewables North AmericaEthanol has long been seen as the country cousin of conventional fuels such as petroleum and diesel, but things are changing fast.