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06 January 2021
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Power, Renewables

Hydrogen: A matter of scale

Green hydrogen projects are on the increase – but they are also in the earliest stages of development and consequently banks are still treating the sector with caution....

02 December 2020

Libor going - but still many questions to answer

Despite the IBA looking at extending the date for the total demise of US$-Libor to 30 June 2023, Libor is finally on course for retirement, with a coterie of risk-free...

02 November 2020
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Renewables

Ocean's six?

With syndication closed on Fecamp in September, the sequel to Saint Nazaire last year, will project financings for France's remaining four feed-in tariff-based offshore...

06 October 2020

Chasing DFI infrastructure cash

Given the vast Covid-19 relief packages they are putting together, are DFIs really in a position to play a bigger role than usual in planned infrastructure stimulus...

02 October 2020
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Renewables

Huemul: A tale of two deals

Unlike its earlier sister deal which was fully commercially banked, the Huemul renewable financing in Chile has significant DFI backing. Was that backing a necessity in...

22 September 2020
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Transport

A49: A question of roads support

The recent A49 road PPP concession financing is the third of Germany's new generation availability-based road schemes to close. All three have been heavily backed by the...

25 August 2020
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Oil & gas

Mozambique LNG: Taking LNG liquidity to a new level

The Mozambique LNG project financing has broken multiple records for scale, and at a surprising tenor given the volume of debt involved. But there is more to the deal...

10 August 2020
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Social infrastructure

Do US universities need further education in P3?

The budgetary pressures that have pushed US public universities into using P3 concessions have not abated. Private sector capital is still plentiful. But is well-priced...

22 July 2020

New regs for a new economic environment?

Infrastructure plans are popping up everywhere as key elements of economic stimulus. But with government budgets battered by Covid-19 fallout and borrowing at historic...

11 May 2020
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Oil & gas

Oil and gas: How bad can it get?

Although the price decks used by banks for reserves based lending guard against drops in the oil price, they cannot possibly account for the freefall of recent weeks. So...

25 March 2020
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Renewables

Akita: A first of many on the Japanese offshore wind horizon?

A pathfinder deal for Japanese offshore wind, the recent Akita project financing did not benefit from Japanese regulation to cut red tape for offshore wind and managed to...

18 February 2020
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Social infrastructure, Waste and water

RII: A workable replacement for PFI?

The Regulated Infrastructure Investment (RII) model is being proposed as a viable replacement for the defunct PFI model in the UK. But go beneath the surface and there...

24 January 2020
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Power, Renewables

Tying lenders in knots

The aspirations of the EU Green Deal and the bloc's adoption of CRD IV are contradictions that leave lenders and borrowers confused - and more significantly a potential...

27 November 2019
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Transport

Will Brebemi's refinancing put it on the road to profitability?

How do you refinance a toll road that has been making losses since it opened in 2014? Brebemi appears to have done so – but the debt is not cheap and the solutions to the...

19 November 2019
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Renewables

Developing a more sophisticated take on offshore wind yields

Orsted's share price took a battering recently when it announced downward revision of predicted returns from its offshore wind portfolio due to wake and blockage effects....