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Clearway Energy Group has wrapped financing for a pair of solar-plus-storage projects in Hawaii.
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Greenbacker Renewable Energy has acquired a repowered wind project located in California.
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A Texas-based fund manager is auctioning off a portfolio of gas-fired peaking power plants located in Illinois.
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Greengate Power Corp has started construction and secured a corporate offtaker for what it says will be the largest solar project in Canada.
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South Carolina's largest electric utility, Santee Cooper, has signed solar power purchase agreements totaling 425 MW with a quartet of developers.
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A club of six banks led by student loan servicer Nelnet has provided tax equity financing for a portfolio of community solar projects in the Northeastern US.
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Canadian Solar subsidiary Recurrent Energy has secured a utility offtaker for a solar-plus-storage project located in California.
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Pennsylvania-based PPL Corp has announced its pick for a president to lead Rhode Island-based utility Narragansett Electric Co, which it is seeking to acquire from the UK's National Grid.
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Leeward Renewable Energy has inked a power purchase agreement for a 145 MW wind project in Colorado.
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The privatization of state-owned Eletrobras was confirmed on June 21 after a final vote took place in the Brazilian congress.
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Malaysian independent power producer Yinson Renewables and Chile-based Verano Capital have agreed to jointly develop an 800 MW pipeline of solar projects in Chile, Colombia and Peru.
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German renewables developer Solarnet has begun the permitting process for a 9 MW solar project in Chile's La Araucania region.
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Further details have emerged on the only economic offer that Ecuador has received to develop a 14.8 MW (DC) solar-plus-storage project on the country's Galapagos Islands.
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Petrobras has revealed the identity of the sole bidder for leasing rights to its LNG terminal in the Brazilian state of Bahia.
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The Carlyle Group has completed its acquisition of the Patriot and Liberty combined-cycle gas-fired projects in Pennsylvania from its co-investor EIG Global Energy Partners.
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UK-based renewable energy technical advisory firm Natural Power is continuing to expand its North American business with a series of new hires, including a principal engineer focused on energy storage.
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Independent power producer Colbún has agreed to supply renewable power to construction company Mariathon-Tecknogreen in Chile.
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A 14-member team has left Beecher Carlson's global energy group to join insurance brokerage firm CAC Specialty, which has been building out its Natural Resources division over the last few months.
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Chilean renewables power company Inversiones Latin America Power, a subsidiary of Latin America Power (LAP), has issued bonds to refinance a pair of wind farms in Chile totaling 239.2 MW.
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The Brazilian senate has approved the privatization of Eletrobras with amendments, setting up a high-stakes final vote to take place in the lower house on June 21.
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Bill Gallagher, the former head of project finance at CoBank, is preparing to start in a new role at US Bank.
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CleanCapital and distributed battery storage company Stem have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a financing partnership through which they will fund mid-market energy storage projects.
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PacifiCorp has shortlisted an Innergex Renewable Energy wind farm in Wyoming for a long-term power purchase agreement, as part of its 2020 all-source Request for Proposals (RFP).
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Independent power producer Sonnedix and Cox Energy América, the Latin America subsidiary of Cox Energy, have begun construction on a 160 MW (DC) solar park in the Chilean region of Valparaiso.
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Norwegian state-owned Statkraft has begun the permitting process for a 671 MW (DC) solar park in the Chilean region of Antofagasta.
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CenterPoint Energy has asked for approval from the Indiana Utilities Regulatory Commission (IURC) to construct two combined-cycle gas-fired projects to replace retiring coal-fired units in the state.
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Energy Impact Partners (EIP) has hired an operating partner from an Alphabet-backed infrastructure firm.
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Michael Skelly, the founder and former chairman of transmission developer Clean Line Energy Partners, has launched a new venture.
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In early 2021, Actis-owned Atlas Renewable Energy clinched two unique debt financings for a pair of solar projects in Brazil supported by dollarized power purchase agreements, marking a shift in how Brazilian assets could be financed in the future in a market that has been dominated by local currency contracts.
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Greenbacker Capital Management-backed Dichotomy Power, an owner and operator of hydro projects in the Northeastern US, has agreed to buy a hydro portfolio in Maine.
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New Fortress Energy (NFE) is structuring a sale-leaseback deal for a combined-heat-and-power plant in Jamaica.
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Argentinian developer Genneia has appointed Carlos Palazón as its chief financial officer, replacing Bernardo Andrews, who was promoted to CEO in March.
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A Canadian independent power producer has wrapped a roughly $15.7 million refinancing for a portfolio of operational run-of-river hydro projects.
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Regulatory approval has been granted for a solar build-transfer deal in Indiana between an AES Corp subsidiary and Invenergy.
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Enel Green Power has signed a virtual power purchase agreement with a dairy company for a portion of the output of a wind farm it is building in Texas.
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SolaREIT, a solar real estate investment fund launched in late 2020, has hired two senior executives who have previously worked at AES Corp and D.E. Shaw-backed Eagle Solar Group.
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Chile’s National Energy Commission (NEC) has delayed the country's power auction for a month, postponing the process for a second time this year.
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AES Brasil Energia, AES Corp’s local subsidiary in Brazil, has closed the sale of its distributed generation solar platform to EDP Energias do Brasil.
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EnfraGen, a joint venture between Glenfarne Group and Partners Group, has secured a debt package from a club of banks for a portfolio of PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) solar projects in Chile.
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Macquarie Infrastructure Corp has agreed to sell a portfolio of energy production and distribution businesses in Hawaii to Argo Infrastructure Partners.
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NextEra Energy Partners (NEP) has priced a $500 million covertible bond offering which will partly fund the acquisition of a 391 MW wind portfolio in California and New Hampshire.
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An open solicitation process is underway to allocate transmission capacity for the 732-mile high-voltage TransWest Express Transmission Project.
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Enel X has secured nearly 3 GW of committed capacity under PJM Interconnection's Base Residual Auction for delivery year 2022/2023.
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Leyline Renewable Capital has provided a construction financing package to Washington, DC-based SaveSolar, which finances and develops community solar projects that serve affordable housing communities.
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IDB Invest has published a manual to help private sector debt issuers in Latin America and the Caribbean structure ESG bonds.
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Brazil’s new gas market regulations have come into effect, the latest step in the country’s push to make the sector more competitive.
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A Geronimo Energy representative has told the Stutsman County Commission in North Dakota that Xcel Energy has agreed to purchase wind energy from Geronimo’s 200 MW Courtenay wind farm.
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Sen. Charles E. Schumer threw his political weight behind NRG Energy’s $506 million plan to convert its coal-fired Dunkirk facility to natural gas, arguing Tuesday that it would be better for the environment and give a big boost to the economy in Chautauqua County, N.Y.
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NRG Energy has closed the acquisition of the 560 MW Gregory cogeneration plant in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Compass Energies, a Colorado-based renewable company, plans to build its second wind farm in Montana.
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—Jose Ramón Gómez, Inter-American Development Bank senior regional energy specialist in Washington, D.C., on the bank’s desire to fill non-recourse financing holes in developing countries.
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—Kirk Edelman, president and ceo of Siemens Financial Services in Iselin, N.J., on growing the entity’s power and energy finance business.
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—Chris Smith, managing director of Energy Management Inc. in New York, speaking about the project finance market as affiliate American Renewables hunts for funding for a Florida biomass plant.
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Five banks joined a $580 million credit supporting Northland Power’s 265 MW combined-cycle plant in North Battleford, Saskatchewan.
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U.S. Power Generating Co. filed its Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition for 2.9 GW subsidiary Boston Generating that included a $1.1 billion stalking horse bid from Constellation Energy.
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— David Jones, president and ceo of boutique investment bank CastleOak Securities in New York, which is the joint bookrunning manager on San Diego Gas & Electric’s $350 million bond issue.
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First Solar sought financing to back its 550 MW Desert Sunlight project in Desert Center, Calif.
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—Swami Venkataraman, an analyst in the utilities, infrastructure and ratings group at Standard & Poor’s in San Francisco on the effects of the downgrade on the power industry.
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—Andrew Redinger, managing director and group head of the utility and alternative energy group at KeyBanc Capital Markets in Cleveland, on real estate investment trusts looking to make investments in generation assets.
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Axio Power of San Juan Capistrano, Calif., entered into an exclusive contract with an undisclosed strategic buyer.
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