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13 February 2024
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Manufacturing & equipment

Northvolt: The battery benchmark

Northvolt’s latest big-ticket ECA-backed financing sets a benchmark for European battery gigafactory deals. But can Europe’s green industrial policy keep up with the pace...

17 January 2024

GIP’s rise and the decline of industrial sponsors

How did GIP go from start-up in 2006 to a $12.5 billion price tag 17 years later?

30 October 2023

Impact finance – the secret to scale is in the blend (part two)

Impact investment and blended finance – both key strategies in attracting private sector funding into energy transition, particularly in developing markets. So how to...

24 August 2023

Impact finance – the secret to scale is in the blend (part one)

Impact investment and blended finance – both key strategies in attracting private sector funding into energy transition, particularly in developing markets. So how to...

06 July 2023
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Renewables

Proximo Weekly: Inside the tax credit transfer window

The US government has released guidelines for how it will treat transferable tax credits. Will the new rules expand the tax equity market, or turn it upside down?

24 May 2023
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Oil & gas

Port Arthur LNG: Old school but it works

The deal may not have the cross-collateralisation bells and whistles of other recent US LNG financings, but Port Arthur LNG is a robust project financing and a bellwether...

28 April 2023
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Power, Renewables, Social infrastructure, Transport

Make the most of IIJA and IRA funding for infrastructure development

Two recent blockbuster bills promise to hugely increase the funding available to US infrastructure developers. Paying careful attention to structuring and to development...

13 December 2022
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Telecoms and Communications

Is the UK facing fibre overbuild?

Up to two altnet project finance proposals per week are landing on bankers' desks in the UK. Is the UK fibre market overcrowded and about to undergo a wave of...

29 July 2022

Proximo Weekly: A wake up call for MDBs

The G20-mandated independent review of multilateral development banks’ (MDB) capital adequacy frameworks is out and has some key recommendations that could significantly...

12 May 2022
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Renewables

Proximo Weekly: Fortescue goes green with hydrogen high yields

Fortescue Metals Group has closed on $1.5 billion in high-yield bonds, with part of the proceeds earmarked for solar and hydrogen projects. It looks like Fortescue's next...

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.

12 April 2022
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Social infrastructure, Transport

Proximo Weekly: How are commercial banks filling the blended finance bankability gap?

Commercial banks are increasingly looking at blended finance to push marginally bankable deals over the fence — but hurdles of transparency, a limited pipeline of deals...

18 March 2022
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Oil & gas

Proximo Weekly: Europe, not the US, needs to unlock US LNG exports

The US is well placed to meet the European need to wean itself off Russian gas. But Europe needs to decide whether 2022 is the year it commits to long-term contracts with...

11 March 2022
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Renewables

Proximo Weekly: Green hydrogen just got more pricing friendly

The impact of the war in Ukraine on gas prices may cut years off of the gestation originally predicted for the development of a global green hydrogen market – and with...

04 February 2022
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Power, Renewables

Proximo Weekly: The LPO returns for Monolith

The US Department for Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) is back in signing mode again and has approved a conditional loan guarantee for Monolith – its first since 2016.

28 January 2022

Proximo Weekly: What cost capital in 2022?

With a considerable number of headwinds expected to push up the cost of US project debt in 2022, last year was probably the year to refinance.

26 January 2022
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Power

A balancing act: Merchant risk and the energy transition

Gordon Stewart and Tom Jamieson, London-based partners at Bracewell, discuss the evolving market for providing balancing services to electricity grids with merchant...

03 December 2021
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Power

Proximo Weekly: Kicking the coal habit

'Phasing down' of fossil fuels, rather than out, was arguably the biggest failure of COP26. Measures like the ADB-led Energy Transition Mechanism are looking at...

27 August 2021
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Power, Renewables

Proximo Weekly: Hydrogen blues

The timing could not have been worse for the UK government. Just over a week after the publication of new academic research on blue hydrogen that undermines previous...

26 August 2021
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Oil & gas, Power, Renewables

Can carbon capture be more than a cover for business as usual?

Carbon capture still needs to shake off the perception that it is unproven, expensive and has suspect ESG credentials if it is to be bankable. Its proponents claim that...