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Perspective
19 November 2018

Sakaka: Cash in sand

In:
Renewables
Region:
Middle East & Africa
Managing Editor
Saudi Arabia has reached financial close on its first solar utility-scale project – the 300MW Sakaka solar PV plant. The soft miniperm financing is being put forward as a template for pure commercial bank project funding under the Vision 2030 programme. But at the moment just one bank is underwriting the whole deal.

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