• Road to hell paved with burning coal…

    Angus Leslie Melville Power Asia Pacific

    Looking at the 2017 IJ League Tables, one thing leaps off the page – the number of coal-fired power plants that made it to financial close. That’s a surprising stat to pick out at first glance, and leaves you thinking that surely – in this increasingly sustainable world – involvement in such deals must be fairly challenging for lenders...

  • How to fix US infra

    Jon Whiteaker North America

    A leaked policy document has underwhelmed, so what should the Trump administration be doing to stimulate investment in infrastructure?

  • Aussie renewables rules

    Iliyan Videnov Renewables Asia Pacific

    Australia’s Minister for Energy and the Environment Josh Frydenberg this week insisted that Australia will hit its 2020 target of 33,500GWh of renewable energy, but that 6,000MW of new renewable capacity must be built by the end of 2019

  • KL-SG HSR – James Bond’s preferred project

    Angus Leslie Melville Transport Asia Pacific

    Not many projects require all participants to sign the Official Secrets Act, but the Kuala Lumpur to Singapore High Speed Rail is anything but a run-of-the mill deal and every single adviser on it has signed on the dotted line… possibly in blood

  • Shadow cast over US solar

    Juliana Ennes Renewables North America

    The 30% tariff on imported solar panels imposed by Trump's government should have a larger impact on rooftop solar and distributed solar energy generation.

  • Listed infrastructure funds adapt to a changing environment

    Nazia Begum Renewables Europe

    Increasing interest rates, limited assets and competitive market conditions are steering UK listed infrastructure funds towards new markets in search of better returns

  • Vietnam: solar outlook 2018

    Mia Tahara-Stubbs Renewables Asia Pacific

    Vietnam has eluded solar developers for several years. Deals appear set to finally get done in 2018, if not on international developers’ desired terms

  • Show me the (infra) money…

    Angus Leslie Melville Oil & Gas Europe

    January is traditionally a time for reflection, but moreso it’s a time to plan for the year ahead and ensure you’re in position to make the most of the market… which is not so easy these days given, as one old chum puts it nicely: “It’s hard to eke out an existence when there’s a dearth of opportunity”

  • 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



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