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05 March 2024
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Renewables, Transport

EV financing goes mainstream by going upstream

What a surge in battery manufacturing financings – and lithium prices – could mean for investment elsewhere in the electric vehicle industry.

28 February 2024

Latin America Deals of the Year 2023: Earning liquidity

Bank appetite responded eagerly to the best structured financings, for the best assets. While supply was patchy in 2023, market innovation continued apace.

26 February 2024

New Brazilian infra law calms fears of BNDES expansion

Brazil's new infrastructure law has been broadly welcomed by the project finance market. In addition to providing stimulus for a wider infrastructure investor base, the...

13 February 2024
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Manufacturing & equipment, Power, Transport

Key funding considerations in gigafactory projects

As the global shift towards sustainable energy accelerates, battery gigafactories are becoming increasingly crucial for the energy storage and electric vehicle project...

08 February 2024
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Power, Renewables

SunZia: A map to financing renewables on a new scale

At $11 billion of debt signed, the SunZia wind and transmission project has broken a raft of renewables project financing records. But given the transmission piece of...

24 January 2024
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Waste and water

Saudi water: Trouble in the pipes?

Saudi Arabia’s independent water project (IWP) pipeline continues to deliver. But project flow in other essential elements of the water network – transmission, storage...

23 January 2024
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Manufacturing & equipment, Renewables

H2 Green Steel Boden: Long on ambitions, low on emissions

H2GS was founded by Vargas in 2020 and launched in 2021. Three years later it has finalised funding for the world’s first green steel mega project. How? By being open to...

22 December 2023

Proximo's project finance trends of 2023

Proximo takes a look at some of the top project finance trends for 2023, such as the growth of European data centres, the emergence of green hydrogen as an asset class,...

09 November 2023
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Renewables

Green hydrogen: What stage is project bankability at?

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...

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...

28 September 2023
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Power

AQUIND: Reaching beyond the red tape

Since the launch of Ofgem’s cap and floor regime, HVDC interconnectors have begun to transform into a project finance asset class in the UK. Nevertheless, projects such...

25 August 2023
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Renewables

Putting a spanner to the CfD works

An unfolding cost crisis in the UK offshore wind sector is causing market concerns about the CfD regime that do not appear to be getting through to the UK government. The...

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...

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...

03 May 2023
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Power, Renewables

Wheeling out the volume

South Africa’s renewable energy wheeling sector is expanding at pace, with as much as 5GW of projects at various stages of development and the beginnings of a wheeling...

12 April 2023
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Power, Renewables

Lift off for nationalisation in Mexican electricity?

AMLO has long threatened to deepen state control of Mexico’s power sector. A move on Iberdrola’s generating portfolio looks like making good on those threats, even if it...

31 March 2023

Proximo Weekly: Lula’s interest rate fight will decide future role for BNDES

There are confusing signals about what the role of BNDES will be under the new Lula administration. Will the bank continue to stimulate more private sector funding for...

13 February 2023
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Renewables

Finerge: Portfolio financing with yogic flexibility

Project financings for merchant renewables assets remain highly complex for most lenders, principally because it is difficult to reconcile unpredictable revenues with a...

10 February 2023

Proximo Weekly: Adani and the weaknesses of Indian infrastructure finance

Listed equity and infrastructure assets often make strange bedfellows. The latest demonstration comes from the clutch of Indian infrastructure corporates headed by Gautam...

03 February 2023
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Power, Renewables

Proximo Weekly: A slow and difficult transition for PREPA

Puerto Rico has awarded the second phase of its power sector restructuring to Genera. So is the commonwealth now on a quick path to decarbonisation?