ECAs and offshore wind: From backstop to bonus
With costs down and technology improving, some argue ECA support for European offshore wind is actually distorting debt pricing in a market that could be commercially...
With costs down and technology improving, some argue ECA support for European offshore wind is actually distorting debt pricing in a market that could be commercially...
Associates of Sullivan & Worcester LLP warn about the underlying complexity of drawing up an insurance policy and the importance of securing lenders’ interests.
Japanese life companies and smaller banks could become a key element in Japan’s effort to maintain its presence in overseas markets.
Is the fund-backed debt package for Continental’s Buriticá gold mine project symptomatic of a growing alternative to traditional project lenders in the mid-level mining...
The end of the year really shouldn't have the significance it does. In the US, the calendar year coincides with the tax year, meaning that there are some powerful...
Some US merchant power plants have lurched from one crisis to another since they were built and financed a decade and a half ago. Despite the twin threat of low gas...
Credit enhancement on the Elazig hospital PPP financing shows how bonds could help emerging markets projects take off.
Estonian and Chinese technology – and Chinese financing – will be crucial to a financing in a niche fossil fuel sector.
Dutch-listed fertiliser producer OCI has completed a tender for $147 million of the bonds issued by its Iowa Fertilizer project. The tender, for a series of bonds that...
The COP22 United Nations Climate Change conference in Marrakech last week saw Saudi Arabian developer ACWA sign agreements for three photovoltaic power projects in...
The bank financing for a Texas water pipeline recovers from the loss of its original developer. By Tom Nelthorpe.
A first-of-its-kind issue tests out several environmental finance concepts, but more development will be required before bonds become useful to the forestry sector.
A Lebanese developer, the UK’s CDC and the World Bank put together a frontier market independent power project template.
When the famous Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson opined, “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant,” he encapsulated the need...
US-based infrastructure fund scoops up assets from departing US utility.
Hancock Prospecting made its reputation in iron ore – and closing a huge ECA-backed project financing. Can it help get a British potash project off the ground?
Australia’s New South Wales pronounces itself happy with an all-local bid for its prize electricity transmission asset.
Debt structures for nuclear power plants could evolve beyond government-to-government funding.
Bringing together data centre and wind farm development, and a merchant wind financing first in Texas.
The new renewables programme is highly structured, and has to erase lenders’ memory of Argentina’s past economic struggles.