Corporations
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Engie Energía Chile has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement with steel company CAP Acero.
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Canadian Solar has signed power purchase agreements with two companies in Brazil, Braskem and Copel Energia, for a combined 274 MW (DC) of solar capacity.
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The government of Brazil is sticking to its guns, trying to push through the privatization of Eletrobras in this calendar year.
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Developers in Mexico presented bids on June 15 to participate in a tender for geothermal exploration and drilling projects in the country, which has been in the works since 2018.
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French energy company Engie has closed a R$2.51 billion ($485 million) loan with Brazilian development bank BNDES to finance the construction of its Novo Estado transmission line project.
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BNDESPar, the private investment arm of Brazilian development bank BNDES, has hired a financial adviser to assist with the sale of its stake in AES Tietê Energia.
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Canada's Polaris Infrastructure is looking to enter the Panamanian power market with the acquisition of a 10 MW hydro plant from Navitas Holdings.
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Zona Energía's private auction in Chile will benefit from a reform that bans Chile's power distribution companies from selling power to large consumers known as clientes libres or free clients.
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Petrobras and Wobben Windpower have entered the binding phase of the sale process of two jointly-owned wind assets in Brazil.
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The Dominican Republic’s National Commission on Energy (CNE) has awarded concessions for 100 MW across two power projects and a transmission line in the country.
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Spanish developer 360 Clean Energy is laying the groundwork for a small-scale solar project in the Chilean region of Maule, under the PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distributed generation scheme.
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Chilean company Saggitar is moving forward with the development of a small-scale solar project that will qualify under the country's PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distribution generation scheme.
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Mexico's Business Coordinating Council has hit back at transmission fee hikes by state-owned utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), describing the policy as “illegal and inadmissible” and "indefensible."
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Oil and gas company Shell is increasing its efforts to build solar projects in Brazil, registering a 10-project complex called Barnard Solar with a total capacity of 467 MW.
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Argentinian developer Central Puerto has begun selling generation from a wind project in Tucumán province to Swedish auto company Scania under a long-term power purchase agreement.
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An infrastructure and energy lawyer is among six attorneys recently promoted to partner by Brazilian law firm Mattos Filho.
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Chile’s economic development agency Corfo is launching a $39 million credit line for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the country.
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Sempra Energy aiming to close the previously announced sale of its Chilean assets to State Grid International Development on June 24.
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Mexico’s state-owned Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) is planning a procurement process for a transmission project in the state of Baja California, adding to the country’s transmission pipeline.
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Spain's OPDEnergy is nearing financial close on a pair of renewable energy assets in Chile, a process that began in November 2019.
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Pacific Hydro, a renewable energy company with assets in Australia, Chile and Brazil, is looking to refinance corporate debt with a roughly $400 million loan.
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Colombian power producer Isagén is plotting the development of its first wind farm in the country, which would be Colombia's largest to date.
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Spain’s OPDEnergy has agreed to sell a majority stake in two solar parks in Mexico to Riverstone Holdings and is also planning to launch a joint venture with the asset management firm.
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Spain's Solarpack is planning to sell a 9 MW solar project that is under construction in the Chilean region of Maule.
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Greenpeace and the Mexican Center for Environmental Law (CEMDA) have secured a temporary suspension of policies introduced by Mexican grid operator Cenace and the Secretariat of Energy (SENER) that threaten to delay the interconnection of renewable energy projects in the country.
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Spain's Acciona is developing a 43.2 MW wind farm in the Chilean region of La Araucanía – its seventh project in the country.
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Enel has brought forward the schedule for shuttering its two coal-fired units in Chile from 2024 to 2022.
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Colombian power distributor Electrificadora de Huila (Electrohuila) is preparing to begin construction on a 24.23-mile (39 km) transmission line in the southern state of Huila.
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EDF has received the green light to acquire up to 600 MW of wind projects in Brazil from developer PEC Energy, a subsidiary of Grupo Engeform.
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Mexico’s state-owned Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) has launched a tender for a 25 MW geothermal project.
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Developers in Argentina have faced an inhospitable project finance market since 2018, but the country's leading wind developer Genneia has managed to finance no fewer than nine wind projects in the past two years, using creative structures including the company's first ECA-backed corporate loan.
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Canadian renewable energy developer Saturn Power has obtained an operating permit for a 6 MW solar project in Bermuda.
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Spanish conglomerate Activos en Renta Grupo Corporativo and Chilean developer Energías Renovables Saintec are in the process of permitting a 54.45 MW solar project in the country’s Atacama region.
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Panama's state-owned transmission company Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica (Etesa) must reevaluate its proposed Fourth Line project (Cuarta Línea) on the Atlantic coast, after the country's Public Services Authority (ASEP) rejected its latest proposal.
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Enel Green Power's distribution subsidiary in Chile, Enel Distribución, is negotiating a debt package with IDB Invest to ease its Covid-19-related liquidity problems.
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Brazilian technology company Tivit has signed a contract to purchase power from Casa dos Ventos’ 504 MW Rio do Vento wind project in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte.
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German developer Notus Energy is working on a 168 MW wind farm in the Chilean region of Biobío.
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Spain's Grenergy Renovables is planning to sell a five-project portfolio of solar projects totaling 52 MW in Chile.
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A Chilean developer is looking for an investor to acquire a majority stake in a 150 MW distributed generation portfolio in the country.
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Engie has signed loans with Brazilian development bank BNDES to finance the construction of two projects in Brazil, a wind farm and a transmission line.
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A group of renewable energy developers in Mexico have won a legal reprieve against grid operator Cenace' suspension of interconnections for wind and solar projects.
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Grupo Ibereólica and EDF Energies Nouvelles are nearing financial close on the refinancing and expansion of a jointly owned wind asset in Chile.
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Eosol Energy, the renewable arm of Spain’s engineering company Grupo Eosol, is developing a 227.46 MW (DC) solar project in Chile.
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Canada’s Greenbriar Capital Corp has inked a power purchase and operating agreement for an up-to-160 MW solar project in Puerto Rico.
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Atlas Renewable Energy is negotiating an up to $90 million financing with IDB Invest to fund the expansion of its Juazeiro solar project in Brazil.
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Eneva has given up on its attempt to merge with AES Corp’s Brazilian subsidiary AES Tiete, at least for now.
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Chile’s Verano Capital is working on a 90 MW solar park in Antofagasta, which is expected to require an investment of $90 million.
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Development finance institution IDB Invest is preparing a debt package for Naturgy Energy's distribution companies in Panama, which are facing liquidity problems as a result of the government's response to Covid-19.
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Petrobras has started the non-binding phase of the sale of its minority stake in natural gas pipeline network Nova Transportadora do Sudeste.
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Brazil’s power regulator Aneel has approved the opening of a public consultation on bidding documents for a proposed auction of transmission line projects.
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Mexico's Secretariat of Energy (SENER) has officially announced a measure to limit the development of renewable projects in the country, prompting a backlash from industry groups.
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Independent power producer Sonnedix has added to its renewable energy development pipeline in Chile with a 150 MW (DC) solar project.
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Grupo Ibereólica and Global Power Generation, a subsidiary of Spain's Naturgy Energy Group, has mandated a commercial bank to structure a loan for a 204 MW wind project in Chile.
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Innergex Renewable Energy has acquired an operational 68 MW solar plant in Chile as well as 11-year demand-based power purchase agreements from three sellers.
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Engie plans to invest some R$3 billion ($515 million) to build the 1,800 km Novo Estado transmission line in Brazil.
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Petrobras has issued a teaser for the sale of four thermal generation plants in Brazil totaling 578 MW.
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Atlas Renewable Energy is aiming to close the financing for a 444 MW (DC) solar project in Mexico in late June or early July.
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AES Corp's Panamanian subsidiary has acquired an operational 55 MW wind farm in the country from Goldwind Americas.
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IDB Invest is preparing a credit line for AES Corp's distribution subsidiaries in El Salvador, which face liquidity challenges as a result of government measures to mitigate the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on consumers.
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While Mexico's power sector grapples with the country's power pandemic policy, the Secretariat of Energy (SENER) plans a new measure that could further harm renewables.
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Brazil’s antitrust regulator Cade has approved EDP Grid’s acquisition of distributed solar projects in the country.
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AES Tietê – the Brazilian subsidiary of AES Corp – is planning an M&A sprint in the country for operational assets as well as wind and solar projects under development.
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Chile's Sphera Energy is developing a 150 MW PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distributed solar portfolio in the country.
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Colombia's Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) has delayed the procurement process for a transmission line in the country's Caribbean region for the third time since COVID-19 hit the country.
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Enel Green Power is moving forward with the transmission work for its first wind project in Colombia.
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Mexico's competition authority, Cofece, has denounced grid operator Cenace's suspension of the interconnection of renewable energy projects as an unclear, unfair policy that is harmful to future investments.
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Global Power Generation, a subsidiary of Spain's Naturgy Energy Group, is working on a 101 MW solar project in Chile, its third renewable energy asset in the country.
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The Dominican Republic is selling a 50% stake in a 674.78 MW coal-fired plant in the country, but the process is on hold because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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In January 2020, Colombia's Termocandelaria Power Limited built on its success in the international bond market with a $186 million tap to finance the conversion of a 20-year old peaker into what it says will be the country’s most efficient gas-fired generation project.
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French independent power producer Neoen has halted operations at a recently completed solar project in Mexico following the suspension of the interconnection of renewable assets in the country, ostensibly because of Covid-19.
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Canadian gold mining company Gran Colombia Gold Corp. has inked a letter of intent to acquire an 11.2 MW solar project in Colombia.
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Irish developer Mainstream Renewable Power has signed contracts for transmission work to interconnect its 630.2 MW Huemul wind and solar portfolio in Chile to the grid.
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Enel Green Power Panama has signed an agreement to sell international renewable energy certificates from a solar project in Panama to German firm First Climate.
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AAGES Global Energy Solutions, the international development joint venture between Abengoa and Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp., is moving forward with its first solar project, located in Colombia.
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AES Gener is plotting a 63 MW wind project in Chile, the seventh wind asset the sponsor is developing in the country.
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A Mexican industry association has threatened Mexico's National Center for Energy (Cenace) with legal actions after the regulatory body introduced measures that could further harm renewable energy projects in the country.
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Spanish developer OPDEnergy has announced its first solar park in the US, which will have a 15-year power purchase agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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French developer Cap Vert Energie is laying the groundwork for a small-scale solar project to add to its PMGD (Pequeños medios de generación distribuida) pipeline in Chile.
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Norwegian state-owned power company Statkraft has inked two power purchase agreements with food company Agrosuper in Chile.
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Chilean independent power producer Colbún is moving forward with the development of its renewable pipeline in the country, which features five wind and solar assets.
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Engie Energía Chile has awarded contracts for the construction of the second of three Chilean renewable projects the company announced in October of last year.
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Solar developer Solek is plotting a portfolio of small-scale solar projects, having filed environmental paperwork for five assets totaling 49.27 MW in the past month.
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Blackstone company Fisterra Energy is pursuing the refinancing of a combined-cycle gas-fired plant in Mexico, which was meant to start operating in December of last year.
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Guatemala’s power distributor Energuate has awarded five-year power purchase agreements to four companies as a result of a tender process that began earlier this year.
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Chilean company Saggitar is plotting the development of a small-scale solar duo, expected to qualify under the country's PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distributed generation scheme.
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Atlas Renewable Energy, the Latin American renewable energy portfolio company of private equity firm Actis, is working with a commercial bank and two DFIs to structure the financing of a 444 MW (DC) solar project in Mexico.
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Project finance bankers predict a four-month delay to the financial close of the debt package for the second and third phases of Mainstream Renewable Power’s 1.3 GW Andes Renovables portfolio in Chile.
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Independent power producer Sonnedix is moving forward with the development of a battery storage system attached to a small-scale solar asset in Chile.
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Spain’s OPDEnergy was aiming to reach financial close on a pair of renewable assets in the country by February, but the closing has been pushed back due to the Covid-19 crisis.
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Development institution IDB Invest is in the process of structuring a debt package to finance Engie’s first wind project in Chile.
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Sempra Energy has completed the sale of its Peruvian assets to a Chinese buyer, bringing to an end to a process that began in January of 2019.
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Colombia’s Interconexión Eléctrica has requested regulatory approval for a transmission and substation project it won in a tender last year.
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The financial close for a pair of renewable energy projects owned by Arroyo Energy in Chile has been delayed by a month due to the Covid-19 crisis.
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IEnova and Saavi Energia have pushed back financial close of their jointly-developed 108 MW Energía Sierra Juárez II wind farm in Mexico by two months.
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Jinko Solar has sold a 155 MW (DC) operational solar project pair in Mexico to White River Renewables, a joint venture between U.S. private equity firm Riverstone Holdings and Switzerland’s White Summit Capital.
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Argentina is reviewing wind and solar power purchase agreements awarded by wholesale market distributor Cammesa during the country's renewable auctions in light of delays in project development and construction.
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Enel Green Power has signed a five-year power purchase agreement to supply 42 GWh of energy per year to a Guatemalan distribution company.
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Spain’s Solarpack Corporación Tecnológica has closed the sale of a 49% stake in two solar projects in Peru totaling 43 MW to investment fund manager Ardian.
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Spanish conglomerate Activos en Renta Grupo Corporativo and Chilean developer Energías Renovables Saintec are plotting a 167 MW solar project in the country.
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Peruvian state agency Proinversión has launched a procurement process for the development of two substation and transmission projects in the country.
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Chilean industrial equipment supplier Industria Mecánica VOGT has inked a preliminary agreement to fit the pumping systems it supplies to mining companies with energy storage technology from Swedish company Azelio instead of diesel generators.
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AES Gener has expanded its wind project development pipeline in Chile by adding a second phase to a previously approved, pre-construction project in the country.
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The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) is arranging a debt package to finance solar projects in Panama.
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A consortium led by infrastructure fund manager AVAIO Capital has appointed MUFG as financial adviser for an LNG export project on the west coast of Mexico.
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Total’s renewable energy subsidiary Total Eren is plotting the second phase of a three-stage solar park in Chile, after acquiring a stake in the first phase of the project.
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AES Gener is preparing to launch a $500 million capital raise to fund its 1.6 GW solar and wind pipeline in Chile and Colombia, having obtained approval from its existing shareholders.
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EDP Renováveis has secured a 15-year power purchase agreement for a solar project in Mexico with a local energy services company.
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An Argentinian power industry association has warned that the sector could face bankruptcies as the government implements the pesification of power contracts and denies inflation adjustments to struggling generators.
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Sempra Energy is nearing the close of the sale of its Peruvian assets to a Chinese buyer having received all required government authorizations.
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Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Non-renewable Natural Resources has postponed the tenders for two renewable projects in the country for the second time because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Spain’s Solarpack is moving forward with the development of a 187 MW solar project in Chile.
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Engineering firm Black & Veatch has hired two senior officials, one in the U.S. and the other in Chile, to lead its wind and LatAm power divisions, respectively.
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Spain’s OPDEnergy is moving forward with the development of a 90 MW solar project in Chile, after receiving approval from environmental authorities.
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Spanish renewables developer Acciona has brought in one financial investor and is looking for another to jointly acquire KKR & Co.'s minority stake in its international generation subsidiary, Acciona Energía Internacional.
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A group of renewable energy companies have written to the Chilean government to warn it that recent policy changes in response to protests and the Covid-19 pandemic threaten to stifle international investment in the sector.
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Spain’s X-Elio is moving forward with the development of a 90 MW solar park with a battery storage unit in Chile.
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Chile’s Energías Renovables Saintec is moving forward with the development of a 217.8 MW solar park in Chile after getting approval from the country's environmental authority.
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Argentinian independent power producer Stoneway Capital Corp. has a new owner after missing debt amortization payments due in early March.
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EnfraGen, a subsidiary of U.S.-based Glenfarne Group, is aiming to close the financing of a roughly 200 MW solar portfolio in Chile by the end of summer.
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A sponsor has been looking to finance two solar projects in Chile for several months, albeit unsuccessfully so far.
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Vienna-headquartered AustrianSolar is moving forward with the development of a 141 MW solar project in Chile.
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Colombia’s Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) has pushed back by three weeks the procurement process for a transmission line in the country’s Caribbean region.
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Panama's state-owned transmission company Etesa has awarded short-term power purchase agreements with distribution companies to 18 generation companies.
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The sponsor of a combined-cycle gas-fired plant in Mexico has begun talks with bankers to refinance the asset after it starts operations.
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The non-bank financial institution Corporación Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura (CIFI) has provided a debt package for a solar portfolio developed under Chile’s PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distributed generation scheme.
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Engie Energía Chile has agreed to acquire a stake in a coal-fired power plant from Chilean copper producer Antofagasta Minerals while inking an 11-year renewable energy power purchase agreement with the mining company.
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Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has quietly pushed back the procurement processes for combined-cycle gas-fired plants and a transmission line until the end of spring as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Ecuador's state-owned Ecuador Electric Corporation (CELEC) has delayed the tender for a 14.8 MW (DC) solar project with a battery storage unit on the Galapagos islands.
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The Chilean subsidiary of French developer Cap Vert Energie has begun the permitting process for two solar projects that are expected to qualify under the country's PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distributed generation scheme.
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British asset manager NextEnergy Capital has announced the acquisition of a 36.1 MW (DC) solar project in Mexico.
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