SunZia: A map to financing renewables on a new scale

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Power, Renewables

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Americas

Thomas Hopkins

Deputy Editor

At $11 billion of debt signed, the SunZia wind and transmission project has broken a raft of renewables project financing records. But given the transmission piece of the project took 17 years to develop, future deals of this scale and type could be accelerated by a simpler route to regulatory approval and financial close.

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