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17 August 2022
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Transport

Proximocast: 20 minutes with Hamish Mackenzie, DWS

Proximo interviews Hamish Mackenzie, a managing partner and head of infrastructure at DWS, about the future of the e-bus sector. Topics discussed include the...

12 August 2022
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Power, Renewables

Baseload breakthrough: Kenhardt’s South African solar and storage first

The successful close on the Kenhardt solar and storage portfolio marks a bright spot in an otherwise frustrating period in South African power. But battery technology...

03 August 2022
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Renewables

Renewables costs: The only way is up - or is it?

Renewables supply chain costs are going up. The cost of project debt is going up. The cost of hedging is going up. But costings for many projects were agreed long before...

18 July 2022
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Social infrastructure, Transport, Waste and water

What’s next for PPPs in infrastructure procurement?

Watch the webinar on-demand. The policy and financial backdrop to private investment in infrastructure is changing. Proximo and its expert guests will take a look at the...

18 July 2022
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Renewables

Proximocast: 20 minutes with Rainer Bucher, BCI

Proximo talks to Rainer Bucher, an executive director at BCI, about Chile's Small Means of Distributed Generation (PMGD) programme. Topics include the history of the PMGD...

15 July 2022
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Transport

Proximo Weekly: Fleet footings

The recent DFI-backed financing for Colombia’s Green Movil electric bus fleet project might yet create a path for commercial banks to participate in the country’s...

12 July 2022
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Renewables

Provence Grand Large: A matter of scale

A first for France and the first floating wind pilot-project globally to have been financed with limited recourse commercial bank debt, Provence Grand Large is a...

21 June 2022
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Power, Renewables, Social infrastructure, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Proximocast: 20 minutes with Claire Barclay, Pinsent Masons

Proximo interviews Claire Barclay, a partner at Pinsent Masons, about South African infrastructure development, including sectors such as rail, ports, water, and student...

10 June 2022

Proximo Weekly: Is Term SOFR the new dollar Libor?

The global project finance market looks set to replace one forward-looking dollar benchmark interest rate with another. Is Term SOFR effectively USD Libor with a new lick...

25 May 2022
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Transport

Purple Line: Light rail – heavy cost

Some completion risk lingers and cost overruns are high, but the Purple Line refinancing has achieved an investment-grade rating and will finally allow construction on...

19 May 2022
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Power

Buried treasure: Financing interconnectors

WATCH ON DEMAND. Original air date: 26/5/22. A look at evolving economic and financial structures for developing interconnection assets.

11 May 2022
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Oil & gas

Petrochemicals: Next year's model

Is increasing petrochemicals price volatility going to force re-evaluation of past petchems project finance models? It already is.

24 March 2022
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Renewables

South Africa's green gauge still upbeat

With banks lining up to finance Bid Window 5 projects, part of South Africa’s REIPPP programme, renewables has become the country’s leading project finance sector in an...

18 February 2022
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Other, Power, Renewables, Social infrastructure

Proximo Weekly: Greek project finance on the mend

Since the country's financial meltdown, project finance lending in Greece has slowly made a comeback in tandem with DFI support for a growing renewable energy and PPP...

09 February 2022
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Renewables

Matrix revolutions

Matrix Renewables pulled off a long list of market firsts with its recent PMGD solar portfolio financing in Chile. But more significantly, the structure appears to be...

09 February 2022
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Power

Funding new nuclear: What price risk transfer?

VIEW ON DEMAND: While the UK pushes on with new nuclear financing structures, doubts remain about how to deal with cost overruns and de-comissioning risk.

21 January 2022
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Renewables

Proximo Weekly: A change of Uzbek wind speed and direction?

Although not the first utility-scale wind project to be awarded in Uzbekistan, the Nukus wind project could prove to be the pathfinder for future wind tenders and...

07 January 2022
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Transport

Camino de la Fruta: The tenor of deals to come?

Chilean toll road bond financings are a staple. But towards the end of 2021 Sacyr closed the first mini-perm financing for a Chilean toll road – Camino de la Fruta. Is...

26 November 2021

COP26: Looking beyond the headlines

The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) took centre stage at COP26. Although initiatives like GFANZ will unlock further capital for green infrastructure,...

03 November 2021
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Renewables

Floating solar: The panel's still out on major deal flow

The recent Cirata project financing set some new bankability benchmarks for floating solar in Asia. More substantial deal flow from Asia's island nations may follow, but...