Egypt and Morocco: How to sustain infrastructure investment
North Africa’s two leading markets have taken very different approaches to encouraging energy and infrastructure investment. Which path looks more sustainable?
North Africa’s two leading markets have taken very different approaches to encouraging energy and infrastructure investment. Which path looks more sustainable?
Construction revolving credit facilities are now the favoured way for larger developers to build out their portfolios at scale. Can, and should, smaller developers be...
Was NEOM Green Hydrogen really the template for a credible and bankable green hydrogen project market? Or was it the product of a relatively unique set of very...
Proximo Intelligence in collaboration with ING hosted a live webinar on Sustainable Finance for Digital Infrastructure on 15th November 2023. View the key takeaways and...
The opening of Brightline's second passenger line has lifted the forward outlook for high-speed rail (HSR) line development in the US - but not by much. US HSR...
Offtake is key to bankability – and when it comes to hydrogen projects, offtake contracts can be a major challenge. Leo Klie, Consultant and Columbia Climate School...
How pursuit of proportional amortization method (PAM) accounting may trigger a power or renewables developer’s exploration of their own options. By Brett Weal, Principal,...
Private credit - the hot new trend in corporate and leveraged lending - might have applications in project and infrastructure finance. But it’s part of a much longer...
ECA-backed lenders and sponsors to the Yunlin offshore wind farm in Taiwan need to stump up €1.7 billion of new debt and equity to prevent the collapse of the scheme as...
Proximo’s project finance research report garners the latest market sentiment via a quantitative survey of sponsors, lenders, and advisers active in the space, and...
From very large and complex greenfield financings, to refinancings that tapped new markets, these were the highlights of 2022
The project finance team at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP provide insight on the current state of the US offshore wind energy industry, highlighting several projects...
Are multilateral development banks (MDBs) and export credit agencies (ECAs) pulling in the same direction when it comes to energy transition? The PR says they are – the...
Two recent blockbuster bills promise to hugely increase the funding available to US infrastructure developers. Paying careful attention to structuring and to development...
Barcelona FC is tapping the US private placement market for all of the debt required for its €1.5bn stadium project. Could the scale of the issue set a new precedent for...
Large-scale UK tidal is still a long way from providing a persuasive cost of power argument, and even further from bankability. But small-scale tidal stream is at least...
Enel’s recent $1.4 billion sale of its Chilean transmission assets is symptomatic of the country’s lopsided National Electric System (NES). With vertical integration...
UK grid constraints and delays to new grid connections are forcing sponsors to look at maximising existing grid connections via BESS and renewables project co-location....
The biggest trends across the project finance market in 2022 have been outlined by Proximo’s editorial team, with each one expected to spill over into 2023 and beyond.
Hopes are high that COP27 will be more action than words on phasing out coal-fired power. The ADB and CIF are both actively promoting coal-fired power early retirement...
Tax equity investments in US renewables are so thoroughly derisked they are often less risky than construction loans. So why is Basel III proposing an increase in risk weighting to 400% and will it happen?