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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Barclays's stake purchase in a Rio de Janeiro-based startup could put a lid on investor concerns over what alternatives would emerge to offset a potential shortage of project-level funds from BNDES.
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Renewable and thermal assets on both sides of the equator are making headlines this week. sPower is the latest player to join a steady stream of distributed generation transactions.
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Greenleaf Power is acquiring Leidos’ 37.5 MW Plainfield Renewable Energy biomass project in Plainfield, Conn.
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Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator has issued a request for proposals for 565 MW of renewable generation.
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Dino Barajas, partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, explores investor interest in Mexico's renewables sector and highlights related prospects and opportunities.
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Mona Dajani, partner at Baker & McKenzie, explains how a recent U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission policy statement could, if adopted, have a significant impact on valuations of large regulated utility mergers and swaps of generation asset portfolios.
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Deals and projects are lighting up several spots in Latin America this month, with U.S., Asian and Canadian entities making plays in the region.
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Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners has agreed to purchase a 488 MW portfolio of wind, hydro and biomass portfolio from Energisa for roughly $545 million in equity.
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Offtakers in the North America are locking in contracts for an array of fuel types, from wind and solar, to landfill gas and coal.
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Covanta Holding Corp. is out to sell a portfolio of seven biomass facilities in California and Maine.
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After years of legal battles, regulatory struggles and a documentary film, the Cape Wind offshore wind project has arrived in the project finance market.
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Welcome to the premiere edition of the Yieldco Sweep, an exclusive monthly feature that will track the performance and activity of key yield companies in the power sector with illustrative graphics and market insight.
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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has climbed back to the top of mandated lead arrangers in power project finance in North America in the second quarter, lending $497 million during the period, according to PFR affiliate Dealogic.
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Southern California Edison is in the market to buy 290 MW from small-scale renewable projects that range from 3-20 MW.
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With the oldest yieldco, NRG Yield, preparing to celebrate its first birthday on July 17, panelists at Euromoney Energy Events’ Renewable Energy Finance Forum Wall Street examined issues facing the young class of power companies as they grow.
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Developers and financiers have bid a bounty of different technologies and project sizes into New York Green Bank’s request for proposals.
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NorthWestern Energy has launched a call for up to 45 MW of community-scale renewable energy in Montana.
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Greenleaf Power, a company out of Sacramento, Calif., that owns biomass-fired plants, has closed a $100 million growth capital facility with Babson Capital Management.
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A record number of entities participated in voting for Power Finance & Risk’s awards, recognizing excellence and innovation in the power project finance industry in 2013.
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The PPA Pulse is a guide to which sponsors and projects have recently garnered power purchase agreements in the Americas.
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Black Hills Energy-Colorado Electric has issued two requests for proposals for a total of 102 MW in southern Colorado.
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The U.S. Department of Energy is seeking applications for up to $4 billion of innovative renewables and energy efficiency projects in the latest iteration of the loan guarantee program.
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Portland General Electric is in the process of consolidating its ownership of a coal-fired plant in the eastern part of Oregon as it evaluates whether to retire the facility or convert to biomass.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in power project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter
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MISO’s second capacity auction yielded capacity price increases in each zone but fell short of some estimates.
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The PPA Pulse is a guide to which sponsors and projects have recently garnered power purchase agreements in the Americas.
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Harbinger Group has invested in Energy & Infrastructure Capital, a new platform that is looking to lend a range of debt to sectors, including power and midstream gas.
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Frank Napolitano, who resigned today from his position at Royal Bank of Canada, has been hired as managing director the global head of power and renewables at Credit Suisse.
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Scott Foster has joined boutique investment bank Bostonia Partners from Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure, the real estate investment trust that launched last year.
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Biomass pellet company Enviva has brought on Martin Livingston, formerly a managing director at WestLB, as v.p. of infrastructure, finance and development.
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Conifex Timber has closed a C$102.7 million ($96.4 million) financing backing its 36 MW biomass project in Mackenzie, B.C.
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Veolia Environnement and Electricité de France-backed Dalkia Canada and Fengate Capital Management have started talking with banks about securing roughly C$175 million ($168 million) backing their 40 MW Merritt biomass facility in Merritt, British Columbia.
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Electricité de France-backed Dalkia Canada and Fengate Capital Management have closed a C$175 million ($168 million) debt package backing the 40 MW Fort St. James biomass facility near Fort St. James, British Columbia.
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Greenleaf Power has bought a cogeneration facility in St-Felicien, Quebec, from Enel Green Power North America, marking the company’s first acquisition outside of the U.S.
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PFR Managing Editor Sara Rosner sat down with Ted Brandt, Gregg Elesh, Terry Grant, and Wendy Carlson to get the Marathon Capital team’s perspective on buying and selling assets in today’s market.
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PFR Managing Editor Sara Rosner sat down with Marathon Capital’s Ted Brandt, Gregg Elesh, Terry Grant and Wendy Carlson to discuss the shop’s take on wind, solar and thermal trades in the second installment of this Q&A.
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The New York State Green Bank will begin lending to renewables projects in the state in January next year.
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In a rare interview, Michael Polsky, founder of Chicago wind shop Invenergy, and Jim Murphy, coo and cfo, sat down with PFR Executive Editor Peter Thompson to discuss the market, as well as Invenergy’s solar strategy and why an IPO is not in the cards.
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Leucadia National Corp. has sold its Imperial Valley Resource Recovery biomass-fired plant near El Centro, Calif., to a Mesquite Valley Water & Power, a special purpose entity comprised of local business people.
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U.S. Renewables Group has sold a 21.5 MW wood-fired biomass facility in Tracy, Calif. to Greenleaf Power, a Sacramento-based renewable energy shop.
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Ralph Cho and Michael Pantelogianis started as co-heads of power in North America at Investec earlier this year after nine years working together at WestLB. Cho and Pantelogianis sat down with Senior Reporter Nicholas Stone to discuss their first few months with the bank, where they are seeing opportunities in the market and what they are looking to achieve.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. has hired Carl Adams, head of structured finance at Banco Espirito Santo, as managing director and head of Latin America.
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In this week's round-up: Capacity pricing results may stoke M&A in PJM while project financiers are grappling with how to open the market to real estate investment trusts.
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GSR Energy is looking for $205 million in debt and equity backing a 36 MW biomass project on the New River in Orange Walk District, Belize.
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Kentucky Power has asked state regulators to approve a 20-year power purchase agreement with a 58 MW biomass-fired project in Perry County, Ken., being developed by ecoPower.
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The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has released the criteria clarifying what beginning of construction means for a facility looking to qualify for the production tax credit under its latest extension.
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Wind developer Juhl Wind has changed its name to Juhl Energy as it expands into other fuel types, including solar, biomass, cogeneration and coal-to-gas conversions.
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The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is advocating for policy changes that incentivize hydropower over biomass-fired generation.
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Oklahoma has hit its 15% renewable portfolio standard by 2015 in part due to the rush to bring wind farms online in 2012 to qualify for the production tax credits.
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Harry Clark has spent more than two decades working on government contracting.
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A coalition of industries and activist groups in Minnesota is calling for the state to get 40% of power from renewables by 2030 in addition to an additional 10% from solar.
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GreenWhey Energy is developing a $28 million, 3.2 MW food waste-to-energy project in Turtle Lake, Wis., that will use the byproducts of cheese production for fuel.
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Southern Power’s Nacogdoches biomass-fired facility near Austin, Texas, has been online about 50 days in the seven months it’s been operational because its power is too expensive for offtaker Austin Energy.
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The state of Wisconsin could look to sell some of the biomass-fired plants it owns as part of its 2013-2015 budget.
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Biomass facilities are set for a growth spurt as technology improves and the fuel type becomes a baseload hedge against natural gas-fired facilities, according to officials on the sidelines.
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More natural gas-fired, nuclear and biomass generation opportunities could result from increased coal-fired retirements in the U.S., according to panelists at Infocast’s 5th Annual Projects & Money conference executive briefing in New Orleans.
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European lenders will likely increase participation in project finance deals due to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s decision to delay and water down Basel III requirements, according to bankers and executives.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has set aside a portion of a $250 million state development fund for clean energy projects, including wind, hydro, solar, biomass, under his plan to modernize the state’s energy infrastructure.
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The Republican majority whip of the North Carolina House, Mike Hager, a former Duke Energy engineer who is currently the chairman of the public utilities committee, wants to freeze the state’s green energy mandate at its current level, 3%, and halt plans to reach 12.5% by 2021.
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Enova Energy Group will hold a presentation tomorrow for prospective buyers of its $247 million Plainfield biomass-fired project in Plainfield, Conn.
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Coal-fired plant shutdowns and resistance to nuclear-fired generation, against a backdrop of cheap natural gas, is pushing the industry toward a gas-heavy generation mix.
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Enova Energy Group is looking to sell its $247 million Plainfield wood-fired biomass project in Plainfield, Conn.
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Connecticut Municipal Electrical Energy Cooperative is considering signing an offtake agreement with a plant in Montville that NRG Energy is planning to convert from an oil- and gas-fired to a biomass-fired unit.
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Power companies brought 12.5 GW online between January and September this year, down 2.9 GW from 2011, according to a report from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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Covanta is closing a 16.5 MW woody biomass-fired cogeneration plant in Oroville, Calif., because its not profitable to run the facility.
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Green Energy Team has received a $72.9 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service for a $90 million, 6.7 MW wood-fired biomass project on Kauai island in Hawaii.
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NorthWinds Renewables, an affiliate of advisory shop NorthWinds Advisors, is stepping into lending for development stage renewables projects in the Americas.
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Terra Firma is preparing a renewables private equity fund up to $5 billion in conjunction with China Development Bank.
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As the presidential campaign heats up, details of each candidate’s energy policies have emerged to shed light on potential impact on future energy investments and transactions.
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Relationships between developers and lenders are becoming paramount in project finance assponsors look to club deals to get transactions through a constrained bank market.
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Fortress Investment Group is trying to corral prospective investors into a planned energy mezzanine fund.
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In this week's round-up: Coal-fired generation takes a profound hit from lackluster power demand while project financiers play musical chairs.
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Exelon has sold stakes in a portfolio of five biomass and coal-fired plants in California to IHI Corp., a Tokyo-based engineering firm.
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A group of local business and political leaders have teamed up with civic and labor groups to campaign for NRG Energy to receive a power purchase agreement for its $100 million plan to convert the 82 MW Montville oil- and gas-fired plant in Montville, Conn., to a 40 MW biomass facility.
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Under new criteria released by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources many wood-fired biomass projects do not qualify for the state’s renewable portfolio standard Class I regulations.
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Developers of hydro, biofuel and solar projects are concerned a plan to reduce pricing in wind power purchase agreements proposed by Idaho utilities will broadly impact renewables in the state.
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A group of private investors has agreed to buy two coal-fired and one oil-fired units totaling 43 MW from the city of Escanaba, Mich.
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Southwestern Public Service Co., an Amarillo, Texas-based subsidiary of Xcel Energy, is issuing a request for proposals for 88.7 MW of renewable energy that is not wind or solar.
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The number of assets up for sale in the second quarter, 32, is less than half the number put on the market in the first quarter of the year as the power market faces uncertainty from various angles including political, financial and demand.
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Babson Capital Management, with $142 billion in assets under management, is launching an energy finance group
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Asian and U.S. lenders are stepping up project finance activity as European players scale back their efforts or step out of the market.
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Ed Ludwig, a managing director at Dexia Global Structured Finance, has left the firm to start boutique advisory shop Merit Capital Advisors.
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Goldman Sachs Group will invest $40 billion in renewable energy projects globally over the next decade.
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Hu Honua Bioenergy has arranged a power purchase agreement with Hawaii Electric Light Co. for a 21.5 MW project that is converting Hilo Coast Power Co., an existing facility, into a biomass-fired plant that will burn local waste such as eucalyptus.
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BVP Property, an affiliate of Dallas-based NexBank Capital, is trying to find an investor for an idled 7.5 MW biomass facility in northern California.
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Biomass sponsors Standardkessel Baumgarte Contracting and Green Energy Team have tapped a new undisclosed lender to lead a financing backing their roughly $70 million, 6.7 MW project in Hawaii after WestLB exited the deal.
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The number of generation sales launched across all generation sources dropped 60% from 65 to 26 in the first quarter against the same period last year, according to exclusive data from Power Intelligence’s Generation Sale Database.
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There’s a lot of uncertainty floating around these days and the power project finance and M&A markets are not immune, especially when it comes to activity on Capitol Hill.
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Renewables sponsor Green Valley Energy of Bonita Springs, Fla., is targeting a roughly $65 million financing backing it maiden project, a $100 million, 35 MW biomass project in Santa Barbara, Honduras.
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Power companies should look for ways to drive consumers toward a cleaner, more diverse generation mix given the absence of a federal long-term energy blueprint, according to speakers at Platts 27th Global Power Markets conference in Las Vegas.
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Southern California Edison is considering issuing a request for offers this fall for several hundred megawatts of renewables generation—potentially 400-700 MW, say project finance attorneys and development advisors.
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A subsidiary of developer Dalkia Canada is talking to lenders about rounding up roughly $350 million in debt for two biomass projects in British Columbia this year.
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Regulators in Virginia have approved a proposal from Dominion Virginia Power to convert three coal-fired facilities to biomass.
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A town council of Eagle County, Colo., gave its approval for the construction of Eagle Valley Clean Energy proposed 11.5 MW biomass facility.
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At least two lenders are capable of offering 18-year tenors in this contracted bank market, said Elizabeth Waters, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ director of project finance, at Infocast’s Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit in San Diego, pointing to BTMU and Mizuho Corporate Bank.
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PI’s annual awards recognize excellence in power project finance and M&A transactions by assessing deals in terms of innovation, size and hurdles cleared on the road to execution.
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A new shop wants to help developers raise capital or sell projects via an online platform which will match them with investors.
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Macpherson Energy Co. and DTE Energy Services have converted a California coal-fired plant to biomass.
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Maybe the push to get the production tax credit extended could use another pack of people pushing for lawmakers to stand-up for the environment.
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Air Products & Chemicals, an industrial gas and equipment company based in Allentown, Penn., that owns a 50 MW coal- and wood-fired cogeneration facility in California has retained advisory shop New Harbor as it looks to sell the contracted plant.
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The market for new assets was in the doldrums during the last months of 2011—little more than two dozen generation facilities hit the market in the fourth quarter, a 60% drop from the same period in the prior year, according to exclusive data from PI’s Generation Sale Database.
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Starwood Energy Group has bought a stake in a $500 million, 100 MW biomass project in Gainesville, Fla., from Tyr Energy.
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The Carlyle Group has closed a roughly $125 million financing backing Enova Energy Group’s 37.5 MW biomass project in Plainfield, Conn.
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Constellation Energy Group is considering selling its stakes in three biomass facilities in California and has reached out to several prospective buyers.
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Covanta Energy is looking to sell two biomass facilities in Northern California.
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Biomass developers Green Energy Team and Standardkessel Baumgarte Contracting have tapped WestLB to lead a financing backing their roughly $70 million, 6.7 MW biomass project near Koloa, Hawaii.
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In August the South African government launched the first phase of an expected five phase bid process to award PPAs to renewable power projects.
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Boralex has agreed to sell five wood residue-fired biomass plants totaling 186 MW in Maine to ReEnergy Holdings for $93 million.
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Atlantic Power Corp. looked to the bond and equity markets this week to raise funds for its $506.5 million purchase of 1.3 GW of biomass, gas-fired and hydro assets from Capital Power Income LP.
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Developer Enova Energy Group will tap mezzanine debt from the Carlyle Group to finance its $247 million biomass project in Plainfield, Conn., after Société Générale exited from a deal backing the project.
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The quest to maximize natural resources has reached a core of many a U.S. neighborhood: the dog park.
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Atlantic Power Corp. and Catalyst Renewables have tapped Concentric Energy Advisors to run the sale of their 40 MW Onondaga biomass development project near Syracuse, N.Y.
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The Meadow Lake Tribal Council of Saskatchewan will build a $150 million biomass plant in the province.
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A circuit court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by citizen group Save Our Air Resources that opposes a biomass project being developed by We Energies and Domtar, a paper company, in Rothschild, Wis.
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Constellation Energy Group is working on a pilot project to use sorghum, a cousin of corn that produces a sweet syrup used on typical Southern fare such as buttermilk biscuits and grits, to power biomass facilities.
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The Florida Public Service Commission has approved Progress Energy Florida’s power purchase agreement with biomass developer EcoGen Polk.
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Investment shop Cate Street Capital has wrapped a financing package backing its $275 million, 75 MW wood waste-fired biomass project in Berlin, N.H.
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Brookfield Asset Management has agreed to sell two paper mill facilities in Maine to Cate Street Capital, a Portsmouth, N.H.-based investment shop that has plans to convert them to biomass-fired generation facilities.
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Dynegy bondholders could take more of a haircut now that the company has completed a restructuring of its coal-fired plants and is planning to repurchase outstanding debt for less than its face value.
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Mississippi Power has launched a request for proposals for renewable projects, including solar, wind, hydro, biomass and landfill gas, that are larger than 500 kW.
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Ithaca, Mich.-based developer Cirque Energy is seeking a $70 million financing backing its $115 million, 35 MW biomass project in Midland, Mich.
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CIT Group and one other lender are taking tickets in a retail syndication backing American Renewables’ 100 MW biomass project in Gainesville, Fla.
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The U.S. Department of Energy has offered Abengoa a $139.9 million loan guarantee to build a cellulosic ethanol plant in Hugoton, Kan.
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Green Power Solutions, a joint venture between Beasley Forest Products and Land Care Services, a specialty service contractor, is planning a 56 MW biomass project near Dublin, Ga.
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Pennsylvania’s governor, Tom Corbett, is rolling back renewable energy programs to save the state money and shift policy toward harvesting from Marcellus Shale.
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The U.S. Army is setting up the Energy Initiatives Office Task Force that could spend up to $7.1 billion on renewable projects that are about 10 MW and located on U.S. military sites.
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The British government has approved two biomass projects being developed by U.K.-based Drax Power, including the 299 MW Ouse Renewable Energy Plant in Selby.
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The North Carolina Court of Appeals has affirmed the state utilities commission’s ruling allowing owners of biomass plants to count whole, harvested trees toward the state’s 2012 renewable portfolio standard of 12.5%.
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Andrew Cuomo, New York’s governor, has signed a bill that will expedite the siting of plants that generate more than 25 megawatts.
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The Obama Administration has set an ambitious goal for clean energy – 80% of U.S. energy should be produced by clean energy resources by 2035.
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Retail syndication is regaining traction in project finance loans.
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Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ is leading a retail syndication of a non-recourse financing backing American Renewables’ 100 MW biomass project in Gainesville, Fla.
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Energy Capital Partners has set up a joint venture with Renova Capital, a Denver-based private investment shop, to focus on renewable projects
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Enova Energy Group is planning to spend more than $1 billion in the next two years as it looks to add 2 GW of gas-fired and biomass generation.
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Enova Energy Group has mandated Société Générale to lead a $142.5 million financing backing its $247 million, 37.5 MW biomass project in Plainfield, Conn.
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The renewable energy and clean technology industries have suffered a challenging few weeks in Washington, D.C., and the near-term outlook on the budgetary and legislative fronts similarly does not look promising.
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Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Crédit Agricole, ING, Natixis, Rabobank and Société Générale have wrapped a roughly $500 million non-recourse financing backing American Renewables’ 100 MW biomass project in Gainesville, Fla.
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AMP Capital Investors, a Sydney-based investment manager with AUD96 billion ($100.8 billion) under management, is looking to make investments in the power and transmission sector in the U.S.
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Atlantic Power Corp. is acquiring Capital Power Income LP in a $506.5 million transaction that will add 1.3 GW to its fleet.
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Baryonyx Corp., based in Houston, is proposing to develop a 26,000 acre offshore wind farm off the Texas Gulf coast near Mustang Island.
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Drax Group, the owner of U.K.’s largest coal-fired plant, may produce half of its 2 GW from biomass in the next four to five years if Parliament restructures the Renewables Obligation Certificate system.
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Enova Energy Group, an Atlanta-based developer, has reached out to lenders about financing a 37.5 MW biomass project in Plainfield, Conn., this year.
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With its historical tie to government support, the U.S. renewables industry has seen its share of ups and downs.
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Paul Colatrella, senior v.p. at EIG Global Energy Partners, has joined Ares Management in New York as a managing director to look for investments in conventional and renewable debt.
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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has hired Adam Umanoff and Edward Zaelke, partner and office managing partner at Chadbourne & Parke, respectively, along with 14 other partners and associates from the firm’s Los Angeles office.
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The U.S. Department of Energy has stopped accepting new Sect. 1705 loan guarantee applications.
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Renewables could provide up to 77% of the world’s energy by 2050 if governments sharply increase financial incentives, according to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations panel.
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Massachusetts has proposed regulations that would deny planned biomass projects in Russell, Springfield and Greenfield from qualifying for renewable energy credits.
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Paper company Domtar Corp. has agreed to increase its stake in a $255 million biomass project to $47 million that it is developing with and We Energies Wisconsin.
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The Virginia State Corporation Commission has approved developer South Boston Energy’s proposed 50 MW biomass plant in Halifax County.
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