Biomass
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Orizon has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Edge Comercialização for the supply of biomethane in Brazil.
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Biocarbon producer Aymium has closed a $50 million financing with Fortress Investment Group and Kilonova Capital.
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Biocarbon producer Aymium has closed a $210 million financing from Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners and ECP ForeStar for its Williams production facility at a former California coal plant.
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Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) has signed an agreement with NorthStar Clean Energy to convert a former coal-fired power plant to a bioenergy with carbon capture and storage facility.
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Verde Resources and western Australia-headquartered Green Carbon Industries (GCI) have terminated their memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop US-based biomass facilities, PFR has learned.
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Reformed Energy is to receive a strategic investment from Riot Platforms to fully commercialise its waste-to-energy technology.
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A consortium of insurance companies has agreed to acquire a 76.5MW biomass-fuelled power plant sited in Berlin, New Hampshire, PFR has learned.
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US-based utility and renewable energy developer Allete is contemplating the sale of its business, and has enlisted JP Morgan Chase for the potential sale process.
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Ares Management has acquired organic waste management and biogas company Burnham RNG (Burnham) from Edge Natural Resources.
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Bioenergy developer Brasil BioFuels (BBF) has issued debentures to finance power plants in Northern Brazil.
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EDF and environmental services company Refocosta are partnering on the development of a biomass power plant in Colombia.
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Geo Biogás & Tech (formerly GEO Energética) and Grupo Crivellaro have secured financing for a biogas project the pair is partnering on in Brazil.
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Brazil’s National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL) has approved the results of the A-4 New Energy auction held in May.
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Raízen has signed a power purchase agreement with fast food chain owner Zamp to supply restaurants across Brazil with renewable energy.
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Brazilian energy company Raízen has formed a partnership to produce renewable hydrogen from ethanol.
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Brazilian development bank BNDES has provided a R$145 million ($27.7 million) loan to fund the expansion of a small biomass plant in Minas Gerais.
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has mobilized a $50 million financing package for a Brazilian ethanol and biomass plant.
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France’s Veolia has partnered with petrochemical company Braskem on a biomass project that has started construction in the Alagoas state of Brazil.
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Brazilian energy company Raízen has inked a power purchase agreement with one of the country’s biggest fashion retailers, Marisa.
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Nevada utility NV Energy has issued a new request for proposals for the procurement of solar, hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, biomass and biogas facilities.
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Montreal-based Boralex has agreed to sell a 34.5 MW biomass plant in Québec, signaling the company’s exit from the biomass generation sector.
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Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources has launched three procurement processes for renewables, gas-fired and transmission projects in the country, which were announced in September.
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Brazilian power regulator Aneel and electricity commercialization chamber CCEE have completed an October capacity auction and are working on two new procurement processes.
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Connecticut-based asset manager Atlas Holdings has agreed to acquire the remaining stake in a 1,110 MW fleet of mostly fossil fuel-fired peaking plants that it doesn't already own through a joint venture with a commodities trader.
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Rockland Capital has launched a competitive auction process for a biomass facility in Georgia.
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Brazil’s power regulator Aneel has approved a capacity auction that will take place later this month, in an effort to optimize hydro resources as the country faces its worst drought in over 90 years.
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Brazil has completed its third power auction for 2021, which favored solar and wind generation projects.
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The Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy has outlined the terms of a capacity auction to be held for both renewable and thermal power projects in the country.
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Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Non Renewable Natural Resources has updated its power generation plans to include an additional 1.44 GW of renewable electricity by 2031.
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Ecuador's Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources is preparing to procure 500 MW of renewable generation in the country, up from its previously announced target of 200 MW.
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Brazilian power regulator Aneel has awarded power purchase agreements to renewable energy projects totaling 984.71 MW in two separate auctions held on July 8.
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A recently launched biomass joint venture between Ember Infrastructure Partners and ReEnergy Biomass Operations has agreed to buy passive interests in a biomass facility in Georgia.
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A private equity-backed Californian developer has sealed financing for a portfolio of biomass generation facilities in the US and Canada.
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M&A bankers are readying the sales of a number of district energy systems that are anticipated to hit the auction block in the coming weeks.
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New York-based private equity firm Ember Infrastructure has agreed to form a joint venture with biomass plant owner and operator ReEnergy Biomass Operations to seek out acquisition opportunities in North America.
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I Squared Capital has launched a $405 million term loan B package as part of the financing of its $961 million acquisition of publicly-listed independent power producer Atlantic Power Corp.
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Georgia Renewable Power has refinanced two recently operational biomass projects in the Peach State.
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Windmill Capital Management, a firm based in Menlo Park, California, is raising a debt fund to finance commercial and industrial-scale clean energy projects.
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Makarand “Mak” Nagle, former senior director of origination and commercial strategy at sPower, has started in a new position at another renewable energy developer.
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Lumber producer Sierra Pacific Industries has signed a deal to sell 17 MW from a cogeneration facility at its Mt. Vernon Mill in Skagit County, Wash., to Puget Sound Energy.
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Two companies have signed 20-year power purchase agreements with wholesale power market administrator Cammesa for projects awarded during the third round of the Argentinian renewable procurement program, RenovAr.
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Korea Electric Power Corp. has priced a $500 million five-year corporate green bond to finance the development of renewable energy and clean transportation.
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Brazil has issued contracts totaling 293.8 MW following an auction for the supply power to the only state that is not interconnected to the country's national grid, Roraima.
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Scout Clean Energy, the developer owned by Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, closed construction debt and tax equity financing for its 300 MW Ranchero wind farm in Crockett County, Texas, on Jan. 17.
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Power Finance & Risk is now accepting pitches for Deal of the Year as part of its 16th Annual Deals and Firms of the Year Awards, recognizing excellence in power asset M&A and project finance across the Americas.
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Argentine construction company Genergíabio has signed financing with a syndicate of banks for an 18 MW biomass project in the province of Corrientes.
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Argentina has launched the third round of the RenovAr renewable energy auction program.
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German developer BayWa r.e. has revealed it expects to sell 450 MW of renewable generation assets in the U.S. and Europe by the end of 2018.
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Sean Casten, co-founder and former ceo of Recycled Energy Development, won the race to represent Illinois’s 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives in the midterm elections on Nov. 6.
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Having completed its move from GE Energy Financial Services to a new home at Starwood Property Trust, Denise Persau’s project finance team is looking forward to having a broader mandate, potentially investing up and down the capital structure and in non-energy infrastructure.
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Atlantic Power Corp. is acquiring two contracted biomass plants in South Carolina, marking its second growth investment after a three-year long business restructuring.
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Biomass power company Covanta Energy refinanced its senior secured facilities in a $1.3 billion deal announced Aug 21.
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Energy Capital Partners' waste-to-energy portfolio company Wheelabrator Technologies has sought approval to float 49% of its shares on either the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq.
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The U.S. Department of Energy has asked lenders to submit applications for federal loan guarantees under an up-to-$2 billion program to support projects sponsored by Native American and Alaska Native communities.
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An idle 18 MW biomass plant in California is set to be auctioned off by its owners following a dispute with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District over the cancellation of its power purchase agreement.
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PFR is pleased to announce the winners of its 15th Annual Deals and Firms of the Year Awards, with added emphasis this year on the leading investment banks in power across the Americas.
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Georgia Renewable Power has selected a turbine supplier and an operations and maintenance contractor for a trio of biomass projects it financed with credit fund debt at the end of last year.
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There are a few days remaining to cast your votes for the best project sponsors, banks, law firms, institutional and tax equity investors and deals in PFR's 15th Annual Deals and Firms of the Year Awards.
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A managing director at Macquarie Capital has moved from London to New York to take up the position of head of clean energy in North America.
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Bonds increased as a proportion of North American project finance deals in 2017 versus loans, as MUFG remained top in both categories, according to data from Dealogic.
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A proposal to link Canadian hydro projects to the U.S. grid has been selected in a request for proposals in New England as T-Mobile emerges as a second non-utility offtaker for a Kansas wind project and Duke Energy strives to meet a poultry waste generation target, all in this week’s PPA Pulse.
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Duke Energy Progress has renewed a power purchase agreement with a 50 MW biomass facility in North Carolina that will help the utility company meet the state's portfolio standard for generation from pig and poultry waste.
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A Basalt Infrastructure Partners fund has acquired a stake in a generation portfolio owned by DCO Energy. In a separate deal, the two entities have wrapped the joint purchase of a Michigan biomass facility.
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Las Vegas-based utility NV Energy is explicity inviting bidders to propose generation-plus-storage projects for the first time in its latest request for proposals, under which it is seeking up-to-330 MW of renewables in its home state.
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Wind generation dominated the Brazilian A-6 power auction in December, with 49 projects totaling some 1.39 GW garnering power purchase agreements that come into force in 2023. A week earlier, solar projects won most of the contracts in the A-4 auction for projects due to be online in 2021. Small hydro, biomass and gas-fired projects also secured contracts.
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Power Finance & Risk is accepting pitches for Deal of 2017 as part of its 15th Annual Deals and Firms of the Year Awards, recognizing excellence in power asset M&A and project finance across the Americas.
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Argentina has awarded contracts to 1.4 GW of renewable projects in the second round of its RenovAr program, with wind generation emerging as the biggest winner, just as Moody’s Investors Service revises the credit scores of a handful of power and distribution companies upward.
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Exelon Corp. increased the size of a term loan B offering it priced last week to finance a portfolio of renewable assets in the U.S.
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As competition for power purchase agreements for U.S. renewables projects pushes pricing ever lower, it may be a surprise to learn that you can get a contract priced at $199.72/MWh if you have the right kind of project in the right location.
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Exelon Corp. launched a $750 million term loan B backing an almost 1.8 GW U.S. renewables portfolio on Nov. 3, offering investors a rare "new money" deal during a period dominated by repricings and refinancings.
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Morgan Stanley is arranging a $750 million term loan B backing a 1,791 MW portfolio of wind, solar and biomass assets owned by Exelon Corp.
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Korea Electric Power Corp. has hired three bookrunners to run an investor roadshow ahead of a potential dollar-denominated green bond issuance as it looks to build a renewables portfolio in the U.S. through acquisitions.
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A Californian biomass developer is narrowing down a field of potential buyers of a majority stake in a portfolio of development-stage assets in its home state.
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A South Korean entity is in talks to acquire two contracted, development-stage biomass facilities in the southeastern U.S., a person familiar with the investor's strategy tells PFR.
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Eversource's 1.2 GW New Hampshire generation portfolio is set to be sold in two portions following an auction process that was launched at the beginning of the year.
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Rabobank's Gregory Hutton discusses the bank's project finance strategy in the rapidly evolving U.S. renewables sector, touching on non-utility offtakers, community solar and biomass, in the second part of this exclusive interview with PFR's Fotios Tsaoruhis
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Gregory Hutton, managing director and head of project finance for the Americas in Rabobank’s New York office, discusses the renewables landscape, project finance pricing and deal flow and the impact of the Suniva trade case in the first part of an exclusive interview with PFR reporter Fotios Tsarouhis.
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Policymakers in Europe are considering tinkering with regulatory capital rules to allow banks to hold less capital against “green” assets, such as renewable project finance loans.
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Project sponsors have submitted more than 200 proposals in response to requests for proposals being run by a New York utility company and state agency.
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Sponsors have registered more than 2,700 projects totaling 77 GW to participate in Brazil's latest power auction, with a large bias toward renewables.
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A municipal utility in Florida is acquiring a 100 MW biomass project from a group of investors including private equity firms Starwood Energy Group Global and Tavistock Group.
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Northern States Power Co., a subsidiary of Xcel Energy, is acquiring a biomass plant with which it has a power purchase agreement with a view to retiring it.
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Argentina has kick-started its latest tender for renewable project contracts with a tax incentive for renewables companies
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DCO Energy is increasing its interest in Exelon’s 46 MW Albany Green Energy biomass project in Albany, Ga.
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A private equity firm is selling a waste-to-energy business, PFR has learned.
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Eversource’s auction of its 1.2 GW generation portfolio has moved into a second round.
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A former director at New York investment banking boutique firm Carl Marks Advisors has joined Marathon Capital.
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A merchant bank and a boutique investment bank, each led by an experienced financier, have joined forces to form a new advisory firm focusing on natural resources, energy, power and utility infrastructure.
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Bankers are already competing for prospective mandates from companies looking to bid for contracts available this year under Alberta's 5 GW renewables program. The first round, which will award 400 MW of contracts, opened for expressions of interest on Friday.
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Five Massachusetts electric distribution companies have issued a request for proposals for renewable projects in the state, with a view to signing 15- to 20-year contracts for over 1 GW of generation and associated renewable energy certificates.
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Argentina is planning a round of energy auctions this year, the country's energy minister said days after the World Bank approved a $480 million guarantee to promote private investment in the country’s renewable sector.
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JP Morgan has distributed a teaser for Eversource’s 1.2 GW New Hampshire generation portfolio as it prepares to run a two-stage auction for the assets.
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Following a competitive nomination process and careful deliberation, PFR can now reveal the finalists for its 14th Annual Deal of the Year Awards.
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A redevelopment company has agreed to acquire an offline biomass project in Stacyville, Maine, from Niagara Worldwide, bringing four years of negotiations to an end.
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The most frequently asked questions regarding nominations for our Deal of the Year Awards.
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Power Finance & Risk is now accepting submissions for its Deal of the Year 2016 Awards, recognizing excellence in power asset M&A and project finance across the Americas.
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Ormat Technologies is looking to acquire geothermal and storage projects in the U.S. and further afield.
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Convergen Energy, a subsidiary of the Libra Group, has purchased a biomass project in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula from the Traxys Power Group and is looking to either buy or partner with other similar projects.
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The future of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Power Plan and tax credits for renewable generation are all up in the air following Donald Trump's presidential win in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
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A biomass project in Copenhagen that aims to entice tourists to stroll amid a forest of hanging tree trunks won an international architecture award this month.
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Duke Energy Carolinas has issued a request for proposals for 400 MW from renewable projects.
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Atlantic Power is considering selling a biomass project in Georgia to John Hancock Life Insurance.
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Northland Power has launched a strategic review which could lead to the sale of the company. The Toronto-based independent power producer has hired CIBC and JP Morgan as financial advisers.
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PwC recently carried out a survey of U.S.-headquartered companies regarding their approach to procuring energy, and George Favaloro, an m.d. at the accountancy, tax and advisory firm, was on hand at the REFF Wall Street conference in New York to share the results.
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Great Plains Energy, the holding company for utilities Kansas City Power & Light and KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations, has agreed to acquire Westar Energy in an $8.6 billion deal which is expected to close in the spring of 2017.
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Power Finance & Risk announced the winners of its 13th Annual Deals and Firms of the Year Awards at the PFR Awards Dinner at the Metropolitan Club in New York on Wednesday, April 18. Read the full list of winners here.
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Former NRG Energy ceo David Crane has landed a new role at a private equity firm with a focus on environmentally sustainable investments.
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Covanta Energy is seeking authorization from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend its lease of a waste-to-energy facility in Union County, N.J. into the second half of the twenty-first century.
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Power Finance & Risk’s Deals & Firms of the Year Awards poll has been extended until April 16, giving you an additional week to tell us which banks, sponsors and law firms best navigated the markets in 2015.
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Power Finance & Risk’s Deals & Firms of the Year Awards are back, recognizing excellence in power finance and asset M&A across the Americas.
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Covanta is marketing a 162 MW portfolio of seven wood waste biomass facilities in California and Maine in what it hopes will be a “quick and clean transaction,” says a person familiar with the deal.
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A subsidiary of a fund managed by London-based Icon Infrastructure will indirectly obtain a 468 MW portfolio of installed, mixed generation assets as part of its acquisition of Capstone Infrastructure, a Toronto-based open-ended trust.
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Private equity firm Riverstone Holdings is selling a 30 MW waste tire and biomass-fired facility in Connecticut to a local tire dealership, Empire Tire of Edgewater II.
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Corporations in a range of industries continue to supplant utilities as offtakers for renewable projects in the U.S., as they seek to bolster their green credentials.
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A subsidiary of Greenleaf Power has sold a biomass project in Scotia, Calif., to a forestry company.
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CohnReznick Capital Markets Securities has made three hires to its renewable energy team in New York.
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The range of non-utility large-scale renewables offtakers continues to diversify, with the U.S. Department of Navy recently joining the fray by signing a 25-year power purchase agreement for a 210 MW solar project in Arizona.
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Brian O’Connor and Paul Colatrella, managing directors at Ares Management, talk exclusively to PFR's Nischinta Amarnath about strategies within the company’s direct lending group, their approach to borrowers, the Panda deals, the burgeoning market for mezzanine debt, and more.
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Georgia Renewable Power is planning an issuance of $225 million in senior secured bonds to finance the development of two biomass facilities in North Carolina and Georgia.
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Westar Energy is inviting bids to either acquire or contract a mix of renewable projects across Kansas.
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