The project market in Greece was essentially frozen following the onset of the country’s infamous government debt crisis in 2009. But with modest economic growth...
The 589MW Changfang Xidao offshore wind project financing features the highest level of locally sourced debt for any such project in Asia Pacific to date. But signing up...
Institutional financings for holding company issuers are the new normal in German offshore wind, following CPPIB’s Talanx-led financing for its Hohe See and Albatros...
Demand from local lenders, institutions and DFIS for up-to-date project finance knowledge is still strong. But access to real-world case studies from successful - and...
Low commodities prices and political upheaval mask some promising opportunities in infrastructure and energy finance in Latin America. And sponsors still have access to a...
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...
Despite progress on Polish offshore wind legislation, there are still questions around local content requirements, local liquidity and local currency-denominated PPAs...
Despite an occasionally patchy record, satellite operators benefit from strong support from ECAs, high-yield investors and some banks, and data is driving ever-greater...
The heavily ECA-backed financing for Gazprom's Amur gas processing project has set new tenor and volume benchmarks for both the sponsor and Russian oil and gas – even...
Cost or cost benefit? Green or greenwash? What does the increasing focus on ESG compliance bring to the infrastructure market and is an impractical take on ESG in danger...
Ireland-based Kenmare Resources returned to the debt markets in December to refinance the remaining debt backing its Moma titanium mine in Mozambique. The deal has a new...
The reserves-based loan is moving outside its heartlands in the North Sea and US, and outside its commercial bank niche. But while oil price falls led to minimal distress...
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...
Anglo American last week went public with its intention to lodge a takeover bid for Sirius Minerals’ struggling Woodsmith polyhalite mining project in the UK. For Sirius,...
The M&A market for North Sea oil assets has been running in hyperdrive. Norway still has room for upside, but with many rushing for the exit in the UK, is it set to...
Market participants warn that the Mexican government’s recent changes to CEL regulation in the electricity sector may backfire – and could lead to significantly higher...
In a year of immense change for energy, infrastructure and project finance, Proximo Transmission's regulars pick the trends that mattered in 2019 - and the trends that...
Indonesia’s state-owned power utility PLN has yet to close a single power project financing in 2019 amid a year of economic slowdown and elections. However, Teguh...
Could emerging markets benefit from the presence of a bond market with an expansive definition of infrastructure and a willingness to look at a wide universe of issuers?...
With Chilean power going green by 2040, and growing demand from domestic corporate energy buyers for renewables offtake, coal-fired power operators are having to look at...
Nigeria LNG's Train 7 hybrid debt raising is the first multi-sourced corporate financing for a project in the LNG sector. So how much of a progression is it beyond NLNG's other hybrid deal (the NLNG-Plus financing in 2003) and is it a feasible template for other established gas developers in emerging markets?
European solar is predicted to balloon again in the next two years. But with the move to merchant, a relatively seminal corporate PPA market, development of solar-plus-storage and some very different benefits in different country jurisdictions, there is still very little that is vanilla about financing the sector.
As surely as bust follows boom, project work-outs follow a loosening of deal structures. And lenders need to learn to keep forecasts realistic. Proximo hosts AlixPartners' Frank Pometti and Berkeley Research Group's Michael Whalen.
Some of the traditional sources of demand for LNG are faltering. Where are the industry's new opportunities and are they bankable? Joining Proximo are Ian Cogswell, Richard Pratt and Sailesh Patel.
A virtual event for the Canadian infrastructure ecosystem that connects regional government, developers and the finance community and paves new paths for this crucial infra market.
A virtual event for the Canadian energy community