Nachtigal set the financing template for hydro in Cameroon in late 2018. Now a very ambitious project more than four times the size of Nachtigal is underway, but is it too much too soon in terms of of bankability?

The $1.5 billion Al Dur 2 independent water and power project (IWPP) financing achieved a record length tenor for an uncovered local bank tranche, an indirect benefit of ECA support. But according to sources close to the deal, Saudi Exim’s direct loan debut proved a ‘nightmare’ to structure.

From the sidelines of TXF Global Berlin, Rocio Uriarte, deputy director for strategy at CESCE, talks about the Spanish ECA's growing pipeline of projects in Latin America, the limits of regulations and breaking away from traditional ECA financing.

African power generation is still dominated by a mix of hydro and coal, but renewables are finding good purchase in almost every country and at increasingly affordable scale and cost. Finding the right mix in a testing climate change environment though presents many challenges. Jonathan Bell assesses the landscape.

JBIC has claimed Sumitomo Corporation’s ECA-backed loan to finance the $2.8 billion Van Phong 1 coal-fired power project in Vietnam is its last loan for a ‘dirty’ power scheme using supercritical technology. But is this legacy deal the last such coal power project in the Japanese ECA's pipeline?