Making savings: Mali’s first IPP

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Power

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Middle East & Africa

Max Thompson

Managing Editor

Mali’s debut independent power project financing, for a greenfield heavy fuel oil-fired power plant, features a blend of Islamic and DFI debt with tight pricing given the risk. The financing includes a debt service reserve account replenishment facility priced at nearly half the cost of the senior debt.

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