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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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Brazilian firm Equatorial Energia has signed a sales and purchase agreement with the state of Rio Grande do Sul to acquire electric distribution company CEEE-D.
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Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has appointed Edward Dougherty as co-head of its Latin America practice.
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Spanish developer Solarpack has secured environmental approval for a 9 MW solar project in the Chilean region of Antofagasta.
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A BlackRock climate infrastructure fund has secured $250 million in commitments at first close as it seeks to invest in Latin America and other emerging markets.
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The government of the Brazilian state of Ceará has signed agreements with two different sponsors to develop an offshore wind farm and green hydrogen projects in the region.
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Two financial institutions have arranged a $100 million debt package to develop a cogeneration plant in Brazil owned by sugar and ethanol firm São Martinho.
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Santander's former head of structured finance in Mexico City is moving to Miami for a new role at a project finance lender and advisory firm.
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Ember Infrastructure has appointed two vice presidents who are joining the firm from Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP).
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New York-based Crayhill Capital Management has launched a renewable energy equity investment platform and appointed two Silicon Ranch Corp financiers to lead it.
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Antin Infrastructure Partners has appointed Chris Slavin as principal of investor relations based in New York.
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Greengate Power Corp has started construction and secured a corporate offtaker for what it says will be the largest solar project in Canada.
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Verdant MicroGrid, a Washington state-based microgrid developer, has inked a $150 million financing partnership with Blackstone Credit portfolio company ClearGen, to support the buildout of renewable energy microgrids in the US.
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A subsidiary of Leeward Renewable Energy has issued up to $375 million in an unsecured bond offering to refinance its outstanding debt, which includes a bridge facility used to acquire solar assets back in March.
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Osaka Gas USA and Summit Ridge Energy (SRE) have entered into a joint venture to develop a portfolio of solar assets in Maine.
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American Electric Power's subsidiary, Southwestern Electric Power Co (SWEPCO), has issued three requests for proposals for renewable and short-term generating capacity.
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Centaurus Renewable Energy has reached financial close on a $70 million bridge loan for a solar-plus-storage project in New Mexico.
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The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) has awarded two contracts totaling 2,658 MW to the Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind project, which is owned by a joint venture between EDF Renewables and Shell New Energies US, and to Ørsted’s Ocean Wind II project.
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Three senior executives at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors have left the firm to launch a renewables investment platform, and are planning to take a North Carolina solar project with them.
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BNDES has announced the winning bidder in the privatization of Amapá's state electricity company, Companhia de Eletricidade do Amapá (CEA).
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Partners Group has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in a US-based solar-plus-storage platform.
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Spain’s Repsol Energy has reached financial close on its acquisition of a 40% stake in the utility-scale solar and battery storage developer Hecate Energy.
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LS Power has completed its acquisition of the 365 MW Solar Source portfolio from PSEG Power.
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BlackRock’s Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund I has launched a sale process for a 240 MW contracted gas-fired cogeneration plant in California.
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Enel's Latin American subsidiaries are making separate moves to merge some of their affiliates in Chile as well as to consolidate the Enel-owned businesses in Colombia into one single company.
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Spanish firm Ferrovial has secured environmental approval for a transmission project in the Chilean region of Coquimbo.
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AES Corp's Chilean subsidiary, AES Andes, has modified an agreement it signed with Chile's Ministry of Energy to shutter coal-fired assets in the country in order to include an additional 1,097 MW of retirements.
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Spanish infrastructure firm and engineering, procurement and construction contractor Obrascón Huarte Lain (OHL) has rebranded as OHLA as it commemorates its 110th anniversary after a long path of restructurings.
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Colombia’s Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) has selected a winning bidder for the country’s first battery storage system, concluding a tender process that was launched in January.
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Brazilian utility Cemig Geração e Transmissão has announced that it will hold a procurement process to buy wind and solar power through the country's free market this summer.
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Catamaran Renewables, a joint venture launched last summer between Captona and South Jersey Industries (SJI) subsidiary Marina Energy, has acquired its third fuel cell project.
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Israeli independent power producer Enlight Renewable Energy has agreed to acquire a majority interest in US solar and storage developer Clēnera.
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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is launching an environmental review of Dominion Energy's 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project off the coast of Virginia Beach.
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Developers aiming to qualify their renewable energy projects for federal tax credits will have an extra year to do so, after the Internal Revenue Service granted a deadline extension on June 29 to account for pandemic-related construction delays.
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A vice president at CohnReznick Capital has joined the renewables project finance team at a Canadian investment bank.
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Dominican utility company Empresa Generadora de Electricidad Haina (EGE Haina) has brought online a 120 MW (DC) solar park in the Dominican Republic.
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Two vice presidents in Goldman Sachs' renewable power group have headed to a Morgan Stanley-backed impact investment platform, where they will lead a new renewables investment division.
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Colombia has launched the country’s third renewable auction, which will take place before October 31 of this year.
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Iberdrola’s Brazilian subsidiary, Neoenergia, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Brazil’s Pernambuco state government to develop a green hydrogen pilot project.
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McGuireWoods has recruited an M&A partner in Houston who previously held senior roles at power and renewables project developers such as NRG Energy and Panda Power Funds.
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LS Power has wrapped a $108 million debt package for a portfolio of lithium-ion battery projects located in California.
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An Ares Management Corp-backed renewables developer has sold a 90 MW portfolio of landfill gas-to-energy projects spread across seven US states to a private market fund manager.
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US-based renewables developer Participant Energy has begun construction on a 14.7 MW solar complex in Honduras, which will be the largest privately-owned solar asset in the country.
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The Biden administration is preparing to launch a lease auction for offshore wind development on the outer continental shelf of the New York Bight – an area of shallow water between Long Island and the New Jersey coast.
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El Salvador's president has revealed plans to power Bitcoin mining operations in the country using geothermal energy produced by volcanoes, shortly after El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.
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Aypa Power, which was previously known as Canadian energy storage platform NRstor C&I before it was bought and rebranded by Blackstone Energy Partners in 2020, has recruited an M&A director from AES Corp.
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Enel Green Power's Brazilian subsidiary, Enel Green Power Brasil Participações, has brought online its largest wind project globally, totaling 716 MW in the state of Piauí.
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Paul Hastings has launched an energy transition and infrastructure team which will be based in Houston and New York.
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Voya Investment Management, the asset management business of Voya Financial, has reached first close on an infrastructure debt fund that is focused on renewables project financing.
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Invenergy has secured construction financing for the second phase of a massive 1.3 GW solar project in Texas.
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A pair of investors has closed acquisition financing to support their purchase of the Canadian operations of Brookfield Infrastructrure Partners' district energy business, Enwave Energy.
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Czech solar developer Solek has received environmental approval for a 10.64 MW (DC) solar project in Chile.
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Highview Enlasa, a joint venture between British energy storage firm Highview Power and backup power specialist Energia Latina (Enlasa), is developing the first liquid air energy storage facility in Chile.
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The Brazilian subsidiaries of Norwegian state-owned company Statkraft have agreed to develop wind farms in the state of Bahia.
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The US Department of the Interior is planning to issue a Request for Interest (RFI) for the development of offshore wind projects on the Gulf of Mexico's outer continental shelf.
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Clearway Energy Group is planning to take first round bids over the coming weeks for the sale of its district energy business.
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Solar and energy storage developer Intersect Power ?is preparing to launch a debt raise to support its development-stage project pipeline.
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A DIF Capital Partners’ infrastructure fund, DIF Infrastructure VI, has agreed to acquire a 298 MW wind project in Oklahoma.
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