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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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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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Czech solar developer Solek has received environmental approval for a 10.64 MW (DC) solar project 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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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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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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A DIF Capital Partners’ infrastructure fund, DIF Infrastructure VI, has agreed to acquire a 298 MW wind project in Oklahoma.
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Ecuador's Ministry of Energy and Non-renewable Natural Resources, which is led by minister Juan Carlos Bermeo, has appointed a deputy minister for power and renewables.
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A consortium of investors led by InterEnergy Group has purchased a 670 MW gas-fired project in Panama, which has been in the works for the better part of the last decade.
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Several term loan B deals trading in PJM Interconnection have taken a dip after clearing prices from the highly anticipated Base Residual Auction (BRA) for delivery year 2022/2023 were announced. But deal watchers say that this is unlikely to have a significant impact on revenues in the long run.
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The Brazilian senate is planning to vote imminently on the proposed sale of Eletrobras.
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Greenbacker Renewable Energy has bought a pair of pre-operational solar projects totaling 20 MW in South Dakota.
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Law firm O’Melveny has hired four energy-focused attorneys from Thompson & Knight as it looks to expand its footprint in Texas.
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Basalt Infrastructure Partners has completed the sale of its Michigan-based electric utility, Upper Peninsula Power Company (Uppco).
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Citigroup's global co-head of infrastructure has left the firm for an opportunity at Antin Infrastructure Partners.
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Norway's state-owned power company Statkraft has received environmental approval to develop a transmission project that will interconnect with a roughly 100 MW portfolio of wind farms in Chile.
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LS Power subsidiary CPower Energy Management has disclosed its demand response capacity results from PJM Interconnection's Base Residual Auction for delivery year 2022/2023.
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7X Energy has sold a 130 MW solar project in Texas to a Korean power company.
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A consortium of investors led by MPC Caribbean Clean Energy has agreed to purchase an operational solar park in the Dominican Republic.
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NextEra Energy Resources has inked a power purchase agreement with a Washington-based electric utility for a portion of the output of a wind farm located in Montana.
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Ares Management Corp has struck a deal to take ownership of a financially troubled gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in PJM Interconnection ?which was financed with a debt package that is due to mature six months from now.
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A subsidiary of Spanish conglomerate Activos en Renta Grupo Corporativo (AR) has secured environmental approval for a 471.29 MW (DC) solar project in the Chilean region of Antofagasta.
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Longroad Energy has refinanced a 27 MW portfolio of commercial and industrial-scale solar projects spread across several US states.
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Brazil’s national development bank BNDES has approved a debt package to support the development of a 68 MW solar park in the state of Piaui, which will be part of a hybrid complex.
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Leeward Renewable Energy has hired a chief operating officer from a Canadian gas distribution company.
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Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has recruited a managing director from BlackRock to lead a newly launched team that is focused on investment strategies in renewable power and industrial decarbonization.
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MPC Energy Solutions has agreed to acquire a combined-heat-and-power plant that is under construction in Puerto Rico.
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Power producer YPF Luz has brought online the second phase of a 175 MW wind farm in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Bakken Energy has partnered with Mitsubishi Power Americas in an effort to acquire the only coal-to-synthetic natural gas production facility in the US and redevelop it as a clean hydrogen hub.
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Atlas Renewable Energy has tapped Spanish firm Elecnor to build a solar park in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.
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A managing director in Crédit Agricole's project finance team, who has spent over a decade at the bank, has left for an opportunity at another bank.
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A Blackstone Credit portfolio company has appointed a CEO who last worked at The Carlyle Group's subsidiary Cogentrix Energy Power Management.
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DTE Energy has shuttered one of its last remaining coal plants as it looks to transition away from the fuel source.
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Vistra has reported its results from PJM Interconnection's Base Residual Auction for delivery year 2022/2023.
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A principal at Capital Dynamics has joined an infrastructure start-up that is backed by Google's parent company, Alphabet as well as the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
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Actis has promoted two directors to partner within its global energy infrastructure team.
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Ørsted has secured an offtaker for a 103 MW wind farm in South Dakota.
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Warburg Pincus-backed distributed generation and microgrid start-up Scale Microgrid Solutions (SMS) has bought a distributed microgrid system located in Connecticut.
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CoBank's recently appointed head of project finance, who succeeded Brian Goldstein in April, has left the bank.
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NV Energy is planning to add 600 MW of solar and 480 MWh of energy storage in Nevada as part of its triennial Integrated Resource Plan.
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Greenberg Traurig has appointed a global co-head of its energy project finance practice in Washington, DC.
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SunEast Renewables has found a buyer for a pair of co-located distributed solar projects in Maryland.
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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $50 million loan to support Chile’s decarbonization strategy.
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Listed US Solar Fund has refinanced a solar portfolio at a less aggressive leverage ratio with the proceeds of a $132 million equity raise as well as a debt package from a regional bank.
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After two years of delays due to uncertainty over the Minimum Offer Price Rule (MOPR), PJM Interconnection has finally concluded its Base Residual Auction (BRA) for delivery year 2022/2023, although the results of the highly anticipated auction have fallen short of market participants' expectations.
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Telecommunications company Claro Brasil has agreed to procure 25 MW (DC) of distributed solar generation in Brazil.
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Colombia’s Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) has awarded a contract for a substation and related transmission lines in the department of Antioquia, after launching a tender in February.
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Laura Beane, the former president and CEO of Avangrid Renewables who joined Engie North America as chief renewables officer last year, has left the company for a new opportunity.
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Catalyst Power Holdings, a portfolio company of BP Energy Partners, has struck a deal to acquire a New York-based energy retailer, marking its second such deal this year.
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Colombia’s Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) is planning to launch two separate procurement processes for a pair of substations and related transmission lines in the country.
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ECP (Energy Capital Partners) has acquired a commercial and community solar developer based in Colorado.
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Telecommunications firm TIM has partnered with Faro Energy to develop 15 small-scale solar projects in Brazil.
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An equity raise is underway for a utility-scale solar and energy storage developer based in Utah.
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A Hong Kong-based buyer has completed the acquisition of a pair of wind farms in Canada, marking its first renewables investment in the country.
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Eco Wave Power has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Brazil's Pecém Complex to install a wave power station at Pecém Port in the state of Ceará.
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An Indiana-based coal mine owner and operator is planning to develop up to 1 GW of renewables-powered generation near the site of a coal mine that is retiring in the next couple of years.
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PSEG Power has shuttered the last coal-fired power plant in its fleet, marking the completion of its long-term coal exit strategy.
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A buyer has emerged for a natural gas pipeline and storage developer based in the Northeastern US, following a competitive auction process.
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BP has agreed to acquire about 9 GW of development-stage solar projects spread across 12 US states from 7X Energy.
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Chilean developer Biwo Renewables has begun the permitting process for a 5.1 MW solar project – the sixth small-scale facility that it has started working on this year.
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Orrick has recruited a tax attorney from Kirkland & Ellis as it expands its renewable energy finance practice.
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Chile's Lo Barnechea municipality in Santiago has inked a power contract for a portion of the output of the 210 MW Cerro Dominador concentrated solar thermal project in the Atacama desert.
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Brazil’s Petrobras has sold its interest in the 26 MW Mangue Seco 2 wind farm to the Tradener Group's FIP Pirineus fund.
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NordLB's Sondra Martinez, CohnReznick Capital's Conor McKenna, Convergent Energy + Power's Frank Genova and Kirkland & Ellis's Brian Greene discuss the latest developments in the energy storage market.
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Engie Energia Chile has signed a three-year extension to its existing supply agreement with copper and gold mining company Minera HMC.
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UK-based investment firm VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities (GSEO), which went public in January, has agreed to finance a distributed generation solar portfolio in Brazil.
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A pair of sponsors is nearing financial close on a roughly C$1.2 billion debt refinancing for a wind project located in Ontario.
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Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) has launched two requests for proposals, which collectively seek up to 700 MW of generation by June 1, 2023.
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Global Infrastructure Partners is seeking a buyer for its minority stake in the 15 mtpa Freeport LNG export facility on Quintana Island, near Freeport, Texas.
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Spain's EDP Renewables has agreed to buy a 628 MW wind and solar portfolio in Chile, marking its entrance into the Chilean market.
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Venture Global LNG is planning to install carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) equipment at two at of its liquified natural gas facilities in Louisiana.
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Ørsted has secured an offtaker for a 103 MW wind farm in South Dakota.
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Citi's former North American head of commodities finance and credit solutions is taking up a new role at a Durham, North Carolina-based holding company focused on the energy transition.
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D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) has closed a $200 million debt package for a solar project in Illinois.
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The UK's Amber Infrastructure Group has expanded the scope of its US activities with the launch of Circle Power Renewables, a developer focused on solar, wind and battery storage projects.
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SB Energy, the renewables division of SoftBank, has clinched construction debt and tax equity financing for a pair of solar projects located in California.
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Developer Eurus Energy America has reached financial close on a roughly 80 MW portfolio of PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) solar projects in Chile.
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Spanish firm Solarpack has begun the permitting process for a 9 MW solar project in Chile's Tarapacá region.
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Brazil's Omega Energia has inked a 10-year supply agreement with German pharmaceutical company Bayer.
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Banverde, a Mexican investment fund focused on commercial and industrial rooftop solar projects, has secured a $57 million syndicated credit facility to support the acquisition of small-scale solar assets in the country.
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The sponsor of the 2.7 GW Westlands Solar Park (WSP) in California has secured debt and tax equity financing for the project's first phase.
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The Biden administration has identified areas off California's central and northern coasts for the development of offshore wind projects and is preparing to lease them out in an auction targeted for mid-2022.
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A director in Bank of America's Global Sustainable Finance Group and a vice president at Orion Energy Partners have joined the energy team at Blackstone Credit.
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NextEra Energy Resources is arranging debt financing for a wind project that it is repowering in California.
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Ormat Technologies has agreed to acquire a portfolio of operational and development-stage geothermal assets in Nevada and an associated transmission line from Terra-Gen.
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Hull Street Energy has struck a deal to acquire Foundation Solar Partners (FSP), the solar development firm set up by three former Cypress Creek Renewables officials two years ago.
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Blackstone Credit portfolio company ClearGen has committed up to $500 million to a joint venture focused on developing behind-the-meter renewable energy microgrids.
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Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners portfolio company Primergy Solar has secured an offtaker for a 155 MW solar project in Colorado.
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Cubico Sustainable Investments has sold two wind farms in Brazil to AES Brasil, the local subsidiary of AES Corp.
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Independent power producer Sonnedix and Cox Energy América, the Latin America subsidiary of Cox Energy, have closed a $120 million financing for a solar project in Chile.
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Energy Capital Partners (ECP) has established a strategic partnership with Hana Financial Investment, a subsidiary of Korea's Hana Financial Group, which will deploy up to $300 million in infrastructure investments across North America, Europe and other OECD countries.
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David Daly, the president of New Jersey's largest electric utility, Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G), is retiring at the end of this year.
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The California Public Utilities Commission has issued two proposals, both of which would require utilities in the state to procure at least 11.5 GW of new generation between 2023 and 2026.
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Pattern Energy has inked a power purchase agreement with a German utility for its Western Spirit wind portfolio in New Mexico.
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Capital Dynamics has hired a director from NextEra Energy Resources.
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The Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office has recruited a senior financier from Standard Solar.
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Brazil's National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) is arranging financing for what is being touted as the largest solar complex under construction in Latin America.
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The sale of Eletrobras has moved a step closer to the finish line, thanks to a bill to privatize the power utility passing in the lower senate house on May 19.
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Blackstone Energy Partners has appointed a senior adviser from engineering and construction firm Bechtel.
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Washington-based electric utility Puget Sound Energy is preparing to hire a new CFO from another electric utility, and who had previously spent 20 years at AES Corp.
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Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners has completed the sale of its RED-Rochester district energy system in New York state to SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust.
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Brazos Electric Power Cooperative has secured US Bankruptcy Court approval to access the first tranche of a proposed $350 million debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing package.
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Northern Indiana Public Service Co (NIPSCo) has launched a request for proposals for thermal, renewable and energy storage assets.
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Exelon Generation has secured a $150 million non-recourse debt financing for a simple-cycle, dual-fuel peaking power plant in Massachusetts.
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BlackRock Real Assets' solar development platform Distributed Solar Development (DSD) has secured tax equity financing for its pipeline of distributed generation solar projects.
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RWE Renewables and National Grid have agreed to jointly develop offshore wind projects in the coastal region of the Northeastern US and to bid in the New York Bight lease auction.
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Sidley Austin has hired a veteran tax partner focused on renewable energy and infrastructure projects.
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Grupo Renovatio has signed its second power purchase agreement under Colombia’s first private power auction.
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Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) has agreed to invest up to C$170 million in what is anticipated to be the largest energy storage project in the country.
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Spanish developer Grenergy Renovables has begun the permitting process for a 200 MW solar project in the Chilean region of Tarapacá.
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Brazilian power regulator Aneel has approved the two power auctions that are expected to take place on June 25.
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EnCap Investments-backed utility-scale solar developer Solar Proponent has hired a new chief operating officer who previously worked at First Solar.
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John Laing's board of directors has agreed on the terms of KKR & Co’s proposed acquisition of the company, while Equitix has emerged as a 50% partner in the takeover bid.
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Clearway Energy Group has reached financial close on an over $195 million debt package for its Community Solar Fund 7.
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A boutique West Coast law firm has recruited six attorneys and a chief operating officer from a range of rival law firms, an electric utility and a solar panel manufacturer.
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Matrix Renewables, a portfolio company of private equity firm TPG, has secured a debt package from the investment arm of the Inter-American Development Bank to finance three solar projects in Colombia.
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Don Marchand, the executive vice president and CFO of Canadian pipeline operator TC Energy, is retiring after 27 years with the company.
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Brazilian state-owned energy company Companhia Paranaense de Energia (Copel) has acquired 373.7 MW of wind projects from the local subsidiary of French firm Voltalia, as it works toward increasing its renewable capacity in the country.
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547 Energy, a renewable and clean energy investment portfolio company of Quantum Energy Partners, has hired a managing director from EDP Renewables.
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Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners has agreed to invest up to $750 million in an electric vehicle charging and transportation joint venture with Nuvve Holding Corp, a Californian EV-charging business that recently went public via a SPAC merger.
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JREL Solar has sold a portfolio of PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) projects totaling 45 MW (DC) in Chile.
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McGuireWoods has recruited three renewable energy project finance and private equity attorneys from DLA Piper.
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Brazil's national development bank BNDES has announced that an auction will take place on June 18 for Companhia de Eletricidade do Amapá (CEA), an energy distributor in the country's northern Amapa State.
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Los Angeles-based investment bank Houlihan Lokey has appointed a new co-head to lead its Power & Utilities Group.
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Leyline Renewable Capital has hired two senior project finance professionals from NordLB and EDP Renewables, amid the departure of a PF director from the firm.
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Onyx Renewable Partners has hired a project finance vice president who previously worked at True Green Capital Management.
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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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German renewables developer Plan 8 has begun the permitting process for a 248 MW wind farm in the Chilean region of Ñuble.
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NextEra Energy Partners plans to upsize a $1.1 billion convertible equity financing that it secured in November with a consortium of investors led by KKR & Co.
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Canadian pipeline operator TC Energy has expanded a request for information that it issued in April for wind capacity to power its US assets, to include solar and energy storage projects as well.
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The Chilean subsidiary of AES Corp has found a new buyer for its 50% stake in the 764 MW Guacolda coal-fired power plant in Atacama.
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Chilean renewables developer Latin America Power has secured a four-year power purchase agreement with a mining company for a pair of wind farms totaling 231 MW.
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San Francisco-based Generate Capital has clinched a tax equity commitment and a power purchase agreement with Starbucks for a portfolio of community solar projects in New York state.
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Commercial and industrial-scale solar developer Altus Power has appointed a new chief legal officer.
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Citi has formed a new investment banking group focused on the clean energy transition and appointed two senior bankers to lead it, according to an internal memo seen by PFR.
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AES Dominicana, a subsidiary of AES Corp, has brought online a 50 MW solar park ?– its first renewable project in the Dominican Republic.
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Engie's Peruvian subsidiary has hired Spanish firm Abengoa to develop the transmission infrastructure that will connect a 260 MW wind farm to Peru’s national grid.
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AES Corp is aiming to replicate a "landmark, first-of-its-kind" power purchase agreement with Google, in line with the internet giant’s 24/7 carbon-free strategy, and which it says has attracted interest from a number of corporate clients across the US.
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Dutch energy company Vitol is repowering a wind project in Illinois that it bought from a BlackRock-managed fund earlier this year, and which BlackRock had originally tried to repower in 2019.
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Spain's Repsol Energy has made its debut in the US renewables market with a deal to acquire a 40% stake in utility-scale solar and battery storage project developer Hecate Energy.
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California community choice aggregator Clean Power Alliance has signed a power purchase agreement for the full output of a geothermal project in the state.
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Ben Fowke, who has served as Xcel Energy's chaiman and CEO for over a decade, is retiring on August 18.
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Rubicon Capital Advisors' former managing director and general counsel, Sonia McMillan, has joined a specialist infrastructure fund manager in New York.
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Robert Sternthal, the former head of North America at Rubicon Capital Advisors, has re-emerged in a new role at an investment bank that is planning to staff up its renewables team and expand its coverage of the sector.
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Engie's Chilean subsidiary has begun the permitting process for a 199.2 MW solar project in Santiago’s Metropolitan region.
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Chile's Ministry of Energy has delayed the procurement process for the Kimal-Lo Aguirre transmission project, which will connect the north and the center of the country's grid.
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AES Brasil has received clearance from Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defense to purchase a 231.3 MW wind portfolio in the country.
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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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Bids are due this summer for the sale of American Electric Power's utility subsidiary Kentucky Power.
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The state of Massachusetts has announced a 1.6 GW offshore wind tender.
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Apex Clean Energy has sold a pair of wind farms in Michigan to DTE Energy, as part of a build-transfer deal.
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The CFO of battery storage developer and independent power producer Key Capture Energy has left the firm, and a senior investment banker has been brought in to act as interim CFO.
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Norwegian conglomerate Aker has closed its acquisition of a majority stake in Irish developer Mainstream Renewable Power, which it is preparing to take public.
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A Colombian sponsor has tapped two international banks to arrange a debt package for a roughly 200 MW gas-fired power plant.
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Orion Energy Partners has raised $1.079 billion for its Orion Energy Credit Opportunities Fund III.
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Listed US Solar Fund has raised $132 million in equity on the London Stock Exchange to refinance a solar portfolio at a less aggressive leverage ratio.
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Colombian power producer Isagén is developing its second wind farm in the country ?– a 12 MW project located in the department of La Guajira.
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The sale of a minority stake in a regulated electric utility in Washington state has reached the final round of bidding.
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Dominion Energy has struck a deal to acquire a utility-scale renewable energy project developer based in the Southeastern US.
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Origis Energy has secured a buyer for a portfolio of three solar and battery storage projects, each located in a different US state.
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A sponsor has tapped an investment bank to raise debt financing for a portfolio of PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) assets in Chile.
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Engie's Chilean subsidiary has inked a power supply agreement with bakery chain Ideal, which is owned by Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo.
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Non-binding bids are due soon for the sale of a development-stage, 500 MW pumped hydro storage project in Washington state.
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The Biden administration has approved the construction and operation plan for the 800 MW Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts, which has been waiting in the wings for years due to federal permitting issues and other delays.
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Cypress Creek Renewables' associate general counsel, Jaya Velamakanni, has left the company to start her own private practice.
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DPP Holdings, the Chilean subsidiary of Canada’s Distributed Power Partners, has begun the permitting process for a 12.5 MW (DC) solar project in the country’s Antofagasta region.
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French developer GreenYellow has struck a deal to provide electricity for Brazilian drugstore company Panvel Farmacias.
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Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has agreed to purchase Brazilian power transmission platform Evoltz Participações.
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Peru's procurement agency Proinversión has awarded Chilean company Celeo Redes the contract to develop the Puerto Maldonado-Iberia transmission line and the Valle del Chira Substation.
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Law firm Baker Donelson has recruited a veteran energy and infrastructure project finance attorney with nearly 30 years of experience to lead its energy transactions team.
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Argo Infrastructure Partners has agreed to acquire a 129 MW commercial and industrial solar portfolio in the US from funds managed by CarVal Investors.
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AES Corp is aiming to replicate a "landmark, first-of-its-kind" power purchase agreement that it recently inked with Google in line with its 24/7 carbon-free strategy, which it says has attracted interest from a number of corporate clients, across the US.
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Competitive Power Ventures ?has circled a term loan B package to refinance a gas-fired, combined-cycle project in Maryland and expects to close a deal next week.
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Greenbacker Renewable Energy has bought its second solar project in Montana – an 80 MW development-stage, contracted asset in Yellowstone County.
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Pacific Gas & Electric Co has been granted approval by the California Public Utilities Commission to issue up to $7.5 billion of "recovery bonds" to finance wildfire-related expenses, in what is being touted as the largest ever securitization by a US utility.
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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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AES has inked a power purchase agreement with Google to supply electricity to the internet giant's Virginia-based data centers.
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GenOn Energy has closed the refinancing for a pair of dual-fuel peaking power plants in PJM Interconnection.
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French company EDF Renewables has brought online a 344 MW wind complex in the Brazilian state of Bahia.
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Spanish developer OPDEnergy has begun the permitting process for its third small-scale solar asset in Chile.
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AES Brasil has bought a pair of wind farms totaling 158.5 MW from the Brazilian subsidiary of Cubico Sustainable Investments.
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Vestas has finalized an agreement with Omega Energia to power the 212 MW Assuruá 4 wind project in the Brazilian state of Bahia.
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As Chile's largest developers secure supply contracts with corporate offtakers and search for corporate financing for their portfolios, project finance bankers wonder whether there will be any mandates left in the long run that are not corporate-based.
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Marketing materials have been circulated for the sale of a majority stake in a combined-cycle gas-fired power plant in Texas.
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Brazilian telecommunications company TIM Participacoes has launched a call to buy wind, solar, hydro and biomass distributed generation projects in the country.
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Details have emerged on the debt package that Atlas Renewable Energy recently closed for a 359 MW (DC) solar park in Brazil.
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Pennsylvania-based PPL Corp is seeking regulatory approval for its acquisition of Rhode Island electric and natural gas utility The Narragansett Electric Co from UK's National Grid.
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A university in Indiana has agreed to purchase renewable energy certificates generated by a 20 MW solar project developed by American Electric Power in the state.
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Southwest Generation has agreed to sell a combined-cycle gas-fired power plant in California to a family trust.
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NRG Energy has hired its new chief financial officer from South Korean e-commerce company Coupang.
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A pair of sponsors has tapped the bank market to raise financing for a portfolio of mixed generation assets in Chile which include both operational and greenfield projects.
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CarVal Investors has raised $490 million for its CVI Renewable Energy Fund, almost double its initial target of $250 million.
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The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (Nyserda) has awarded contracts to 22 solar and wind projects, totaling 2,111 MW.
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Independent power producer Sonnedix has brought online two small-scale solar projects in Chile, bringing its total operating capacity up to 235 MW.
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PSEG Power has found a buyer for its 365 MW Solar Source portfolio, following a competitive auction process.
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A senior director who recently left NordLB after a decade working in the firm's project finance practice has joined DNB Bank.
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Ex-Goldman Sachs managing director Jean-Pierre Boudrias and ex-Macquarie Capital managing director Ross Warner ?have teamed up to launch their own hydrogen energy storage business.
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A bulge-bracket investment bank is slotting acquisition financing into place to support Dutch fund APG and Celeo Redes' purchase of Colbún's transmission business.
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Brazilian state-controlled Eletrobras has appointed former ANEEL director Rodrigo Limp Nascimento as CEO, effective May 7.
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Chilean developer Grupo Energy Lancuyen has received approval for a 9 MW solar project that will be part of its PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) pipeline in the country.
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CarVal Investors has closed tax equity financing for a distributed generation solar and battery storage portfolio located in Massachusetts and Missouri.
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Houston-based EnCap Investments has raised $1.2 billion for its EnCap Energy Transition Fund I.
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A fund managed by Ares Management Corp and The Conti Group has sold solar and energy storage-focused engineering, procurement and construction contractor CS Energy.
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AES has inked a power purchase agreement with Google to supply electricity to the internet giant's Virginia-based data centers.
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A renewables developer has tapped the bank market for a roughly $1 billion debt raise to support the construction of a mammoth solar-plus-storage project located in California.
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Petrobras has started the binding phase on the sale of stakes in two pipelines, Transportadora Brasileira Gasoduto Bolivia-Brasil (TBG) and Transportadora Sulbrasileira de Gás (TSB).
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Insurance brokerage firm CAC Specialty is rapidly expanding its Natural Resources division with a series of high-level hires, including two from Beecher Carlson.
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Global Energy Generation (GEG), a subsidiary of Israeli renewables group Doral, has secured an offtaker for the first phase of a 1.65 GW solar project that it is developing in Indiana.
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A sale process is underway for a battery storage-focused independent power producer.
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Chilean independent power producer Colbún has announced plans to develop 800 MW of renewable energy projects in the country by the second quarter of this year, bringing its total renewables capacity up to 1.8 GW.
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KeyBanc Capital Markets has hired six renewables investment bankers from a regional bank to join its San Francisco-based utilities, power and renewables team.
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A senior managing director at Evercore has left for a new opportunity at Moelis & Co.
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Chilean independent power producer Energia Latina (Enlasa) is adding a second phase to its Peñón Solar park in the region of Coquimbo.
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Chile’s National Energy Commission (NEC) has postponed the renewable power auction that was meant to take place in 2020 for a further month.
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Capital Dynamics has found a buyer for a stake in a 100 MW/400 MWh standalone battery storage project in California.
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A senior director who had worked in NordLB's project finance practice for over a decade has left the bank.
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Lightsource bp has inked a power purchase agreement with online retailer Amazon for an Ohio solar project.
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Tiger Infrastructure Partners has been selected to back a new business that aspires to build the world’s largest carbon capture and storage project.
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Troubled Australian asset manager AMP, the parent company to US renewables investor AMP Capital, has avoided a second shareholder vote against executive pay by a slim margin.
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The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has kicked off its environmental review of Ørsted and Eversource’s Revolution Wind project off the coast of New England.
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First Sentier Investors has appointed Chris Tehranian as a senior director in New York.
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The Inter-American Development Bank and IDB Invest have launched an online tool designed to standardize reporting in the Latin American and Caribbean green bond markets and bring about greater transparency.
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Energy Capital Partners subsidiary Convergent Energy and Power has found an offtaker for a community solar-plus-storage portfolio in upstate New York.
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Dominion Energy Virginia has launched a request for proposals for solar, wind and energy storage projects.
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State-owned China Development Integration and China Machinery Engineering Corp have signed a contract to finance and develop a 1.1 GW solar project in Brazil.
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Brazilian renewable energy producer Rio Alto Energias Renovables has decided to halt its initial public offering due to changing conditions in the Brazilian and international capital markets.
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A senior banker has left Investec's power and infrastructure team in New York for a new opportunity.
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AES Brasil, the local subsidiary of AES Corp, has tapped Spanish firm Elecnor to build the first two phases of a roughly 580 MW wind complex in Brazil.
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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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CenterPoint Energy has found a buyer for two of its natural gas utility businesses, following a sale process that was first announced in November.
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Engie has announced plans to develop 2 GW of renewable energy projects in Chile, up from the 1 GW of projects that it had proposed in 2019.
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A senior finance official at Nephila Climate has left the firm – the latest in a series of high-level executive departures in recent weeks.
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Renewable Energy Systems has secured two virtual power purchase agreements with Bimbo Canada, one of the largest bakeries in the country.
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CMI Energia, the renewable energy arm of Guatemalan conglomerate Corporación Multi Inversiones, has refinanced the debt associated with its subsidiaries in Central America and the Caribbean with a $1 billion deal.
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Advanced Power has closed non-recourse debt financing for a 140 MW (DC) merchant solar project in Texas.
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Vistra Energy Corp has revised the previously estimated financial impact of winter storm Uri and reissued its 2021 guidance after receiving additional load information from Ercot.
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Strata Clean Energy (formerly Strata Solar) has appointed a new CFO from within its own ranks, after the incumbent joined another developer earlier this month.
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A senior executive at solar developer Hive Energy has left, as the firm prepares to exit the Mexican market.
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Ardmore, Pennsylvania-based developer Prospect14 has launched a sale process for its solar and solar-plus-storage development project pipeline.
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Tennessee Valley Authority has signed a power purchase agreement with a developer for a 200 MW solar project in Mississippi, which will sell its electricity to the Knoxville Utilities Board.
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Enel Green Power Chile has made its debut in Chile's distributed solar generation market by bringing online its first such project in the country, as part of a plan to interconnect 75 MW of small-scale solar assets by 2022.
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Chile's economic development agency Corfo has launched a tender for green hydrogen projects in the country.
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Colombia’s Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) is preparing a tender for a substation and related transmission lines in the department of Chocó.
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Leeward Renewable Energy has struck a deal to acquire a 580 MW wind and solar portfolio in Indiana.
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A senior managing director at Truist, who had previously spent more than a decade in the energy group at Credit Suisse, has left the bank.
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German renewable energy startup Energy Kitchen has begun the permitting process for a 39.2 MW wind farm in Chile's Los Lagos region.
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Marketing materials have been circulated for the sale of Glidepath Power Solutions' battery storage platform.
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A lithium-ion battery manufacturer is seeking $25 million of private equity capital to fund its expansion in the US.
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RWE Renewables has tasked GE Renewable Energy with the repowering of the third phase of its Panther Creek wind farm in Texas.
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Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners' portfolio company Scout Clean Energy has secured a $50 million letter of credit facility.
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Brazilian distributed solar developer Órigo Energia has secured a mezzanine debt package to fund the expansion of its portfolio in the country.
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Sempra Energy is offering minority investors in its Mexican subsidiary IEnova the option of swapping their shares for shares in the US parent company, as part of an asset reorganization process.
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NextEra Energy has recorded a $180 million revenue hit owing to the severe winter weather in Texas in February, which forced as much as 46 GW of generation offline.
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Grupo Renovatio has signed its first power purchase agreement under what has been touted as "LatAm's first private renewable energy auction."
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Starwood Energy Group Global has submitted an $8 billion investment proposal to the Public Utility Commission of Texas which it says would mitigate reliability issues in Ercot following winter storm Uri.
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The refinancing for a 1.4 GW portfolio of cogeneration plants has been launched into the term loan B market.
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Ørsted has secured a corporate power purchase agreement for a 200 MW solar project in Texas.
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AES Gener, the Chilean subsidiary of AES Corp, has rebranded as AES Andes as it continues to amp up its focus on renewable generation.
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Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy is developing solar assets that will power three cities on Marajó, an island in the Amazon river delta, as part of a broader strategy to bring power to the area.
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Spanish developer Grenergy Renovables has begun the permitting process for a 220 MW solar park in Chile's Antofagasta region.
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Avangrid has won US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval for its proposed $4.3 billion merger with PNM Resources.
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Georgia Transmission Corp has named Dustin Zubke as its new senior vice president and CFO.
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Investec has launched a secondary trading desk and recruited a senior secondary loan trader in New York to lead it.
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SunPower Corp has announced power purchase agreements for solar projects that will be built on former landfill sites in Maryland.
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The owner of a hedged wind farm in Texas has filed a notice of appeal in New York's Supreme Court in order to protect the project from foreclosure.
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Lightsource bp has inked a power purchase agreement with online retailer Amazon for a solar project in Ohio.
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French developer Cap Vert Energie has begun the permitting process for a 9 MW solar project in Chile, as it continues to build out its PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distributed generation portfolio.
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Colombia's Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) has postponed a tender for a substation, after rejecting the only technical offer presented.
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Colombia has set the dates for the country’s second renewable auction, which it first announced in November.
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Enel Green Power Chile has terminated its construction contract with Tozzi Latam, the regional subsidiary of Tozzi Green, for a 382 MW solar park in Chile.
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Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) has struck a deal to provide $1 billion to Invenergy Renewables to fund development activities and growth.
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A developer has brought a development-stage solar portfolio in Ercot South to the market this month, after a previous sale process came to a halt due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Recurrent Energy has closed construction debt financing for a build-transfer project in Mississippi, as this type of deal becomes more common in the solar sector.
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Nautilus Solar Energy has closed a tax equity commitment with an investment bank for a portfolio of 22 community solar projects in five US states.
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AES Gener ?is shuttering a 58.35 MW diesel-fired plant in the Chilean region of Valparaiso, as other developers close their coal- and gas-fired assets in the country and pivot toward renewable power generation.
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Oklahoma Gas and Electric, a subsidiary of OGE Energy Corp, has announced plans to expand a solar project in the state by 5 MW.
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Knighthead Capital Management has inked a deal to increase its ownership stake in the coal-fired Homer City Electric Generation Station in Pennsylvania, which underwent bankruptcy proceedings in 2017.
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Matrix Renewables, a portfolio company of private equity firm TPG, has appointed Luis Sabaté as chief operating officer, as the company continues to expand into Latin America.
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Italy's Enel has closed a public tender offer for 10% of Santiago-listed subsidiary Enel Americas' shares, after the latter finalized its merger with Enel Green Power in Central and South America.
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Details have emerged on Competitive Power Ventures' term loan B refinancing of a gas-fired, combined-cycle project in Maryland.
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CoBank has appointed a new head of project finance, succeeding Brian Goldstein who left the bank earlier this month.
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Brazil's Maranhão Court of Justice (TJMA) has commissioned a 5 MW solar project in the northeast of the country.
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CleanCapital has secured a $300 million corporate equity commitment from an insurance fund manager as it looks to restructure the company and launch its next stage of growth.
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Southern Power has struck a deal to acquire a 118 MW wind project in Oklahoma.
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EIG Global Energy Partners has closed the sale of its stake in the Brazilian section of the Bolivia-Brazil natural gas pipeline known as Gasbol to Fluxys.
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National Grid Renewables has secured three offtakers for a 275 MW solar-plus-storage project that it is developing in Texas.
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Local sponsor Energias Renovables del Sur has been awarded a concession to develop a 131.1 MW wind farm in the Peruvian department of Ica.
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Spanish renewable energy developer Acciona has signed a power supply agreement with fruit producer Garces Fruit in Chile, the latest in a string of contracts with corporate offtakers in the country.
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NextEra Energy Partners has struck a deal to acquire a 391 MW operational wind portfolio from Brookfield Renewable Partners.
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D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments has clinched construction debt and tax equity financing for the third phase of one of the largest solar projects in the Midwest.
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NextEra Energy is planning to repower a 66 MW wind farm in Hancock County, Illinois.
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AEP Energy, a subsidiary of American Electric Power, has signed a 12-year power purchase agreement with an Ohio-based lead-acid battery manufacturer.
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Competitive Power Ventures is launching the refinancing of a gas-fired, combined-cycle project in Maryland imminently.
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Excelsior Energy Capital has announced an initial investment from its Excelsior 2021 TE Vehicle tax equity fund.
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BlackRock and Singaporean investment company Temasek have formed a partnership that aims to raise $1 billion for its first fund, focusing on decarbonization investment opportunities.
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Solar developer Clenera Renewable Energies has signed a power purchase agreement for a 100 MW solar project that it is developing in Linn County, Iowa.
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Colombia's Empresas Públicas de Medellín appointed Jorge Andres Carillo as its general manager on April 13, making him the third person to hold the job in little more than a week as internal strife flares up at the city-owned energy company.
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Caisse de dépot et placement du Québec (CDPQ) has teamed up with alternative investment manager Energize Ventures to invest up to $125 million in the energy transition over the next three years.
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Having dissolved the Dominican Corporation of State-Owned Electric Companies (CDEEE), the Dominican Republic has outlined a shift in responsibility for the procurement of power and renewable energy to its three former subsidiaries, which will now operate as separate state-owned companies.
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Capital Dynamics has recruited a senior finance official from AES Clean Energy as it looks to rebuild its clean energy infrastructure team.
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New Fortress Energy has concluded its acquisitions of Hygo Energy Transition, from Golar LNG and Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, and Golar LNG Partners, from Golar and public market investors.
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Global Energy Generation, a US renewable energy developer established in 2019, has hired long-time Tyr Energy staffer Ignacio Ibarguren as vice president of M&A and finance.
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Owners of hedged renewable energy projects in Texas face an uphill battle as they plead for protection against foreclosure in court, if a recent ruling by a New York judge is anything to go by.
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An auction for one of the largest battery storage projects in the US has progressed to the second round.
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Chevron has invested in a start-up that is developing floating offshore wind technology in the US.
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Utility-scale solar and battery storage developer Strata Solar has renamed itself Strata Clean Energy.
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SMBC has appointed Juan Kreutz and Luis Fernando Perdigon as co-heads of specialized finance, a division which aggregates several businesses for the bank's North America and Latin America regions, including project finance, US private placements and financing for clients in Asia.
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Spanish developer Acciona is working on a 168 MW solar project in the Colombian department of La Guajira.
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Chilean developer Biwo Renewables has begun the permitting process for an 11.87 MW (DC) solar project in the O’Higgins region, while it works on four other small-scale assets.
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Colombia's Empresas Públicas de Medellín has selected a new general manager, who will be the third person to hold the job in little more than a week, as internal strife flares up at the city-owned energy company.
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Bracewell has appointed energy attorneys Frank Lee and Ted Duver as partners in its corporate and securities team in New York.
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BlackRock has filed a lawsuit to protect one of its hedged Texas wind farms from having to pay close to $100 million in compensation to hedge counterparty Citigroup Energy as a result of winter storm Uri - litigation which Citi says "is without merit."
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The final pricing on two recent power-sector term loan Bs landed inside initial price thoughts, indicating a healthy market for additional issuance.
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Summit Ridge Energy (SRE) has secured a tax equity investment for a series of commercial and residential community solar projects across Illinois, Maryland, and Maine.
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Actis portfolio company Atlas Renewable Energy has closed financing for a 359 MW solar project in Brazil.
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Rubicon Capital Advisors has hired Tony Memmo as managing director and Owen Weihman as director in New York.
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Brazil’s 2W Energia has raised $45 million to finance the construction of the 138.6 MW Anemus wind complex and expand its operations in the country.
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Adapture Renewables, which is backed by Kirkbi, the investment holding company of the family behind Lego Group, has secured tax equity financing for a 33 MW solar portfolio in Oregon.
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EnCap Investments and Yorktown Partners-backed solar and storage company Catalyze has acquired a Californian rooftop solar developer and installer as it looks to expand its project pipeline and geographic presence in the US.
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Listed solar investor US Solar Fund is aiming to raise equity on the London Stock Exchange in part to allow it to refinance a portfolio of solar assets at a less aggressive leverage ratio.
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Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) has closed its acquisition of a 25% stake in Ørsted North America's 1,100 MW Ocean Wind project, which will be built 15 miles off the coast of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Pattern Energy Group has partnered with Talen Energy Corp to establish a new joint venture that aims to build and finance 1.4 GW of utility-scale solar and wind generation over the next five years.
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Capital Dynamics has signed a build-transfer agreement for a solar project with an Indiana utility, as this type of agreement steadily becomes more popular.
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The general manager of Colombia's Empresas Públicas de Medellín has quit after a week at the position.
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IDB Invest has made changes to the loan it signed with Colombian firm Empresas Públicas de Medellín to develop its 2.4 GW Ituango hydro project in northern Colombia.
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Latin America-focused power, utilities and project finance banker Ivan Oliveros has joined Miami-based advisory firm Atlantico Capital Partners as a partner in New York.
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Trafigura Group announced on April 9 that it will launch its first carbon trading desk, led by Hannah Hauman, further expanding the scope of its trading activities.
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Hanwha Q CELLS USA Corp has revealed details of the tax equity financing for its operational Kellam Solar Project, located in Van Zandt County, Texas, in Ercot's North zone.
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LS Power has signed an agreement to sell its 230 MW Hog Bayou Energy Center gas-fired project in Alabama to an investment vehicle managed by another private equity firm.
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BluEarth Renewables has signed a power purchase agreement with a retail energy provider for the output of a wind farm in Alberta.
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France's Cap Vert Energie has begun the permitting process for a 7.89 MW (DC) small-scale solar project in Chile, adding to its existing PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distributed generation portfolio.
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Norway's state-owned power company Statkraft is about to start construction on three wind farms it acquired from a subsidiary of Spanish firm Torsa Renovables in September 2019.
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Canadian pipeline operator TC Energy Corp has hired Marathon Capital to advise on the procurement of as much as 620 MW of wind capacity to power its US assets.
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Brazil’s Equatorial Energia has raised R$800 million ($143 million) through an offering of debentures to finance its transmission lines in the country.
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Brazil’s state-controlled Eletrobras has signed a memorandum of understanding with the German firm Siemens Energy to jointly develop studies for the production of green hydrogen in Brazil.
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NextEra Energy Resources has signed up a corporate offtaker for a 58 MW solar project that it is developing in North Carolina.
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OMERS Infrastructure has signed a deal to sell its minority stake in Vento II, a 596 MW portfolio of wind projects in four US states, to Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure.
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Vistra Energy is bringing forward the retirement date for its 802 MW Electric Energy coal-fired plant in Joppa, Illinois, by three years, owing to the various legal and economic challenges the plant is up against.
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ReneSola has sold a 10 MW portfolio of behind-the-meter solar projects in Utah to Greenbacker Renewable Energy.
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Spanish firm Continua Energias Positivas has begun the permitting process for a transmission project in Colombia that will connect a development-stage solar asset to the grid.
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Trinergy, the Chilean subsidiary of Swiss-German company Tritec-Intervento, has received environmental approval for a 9 MW solar asset in Chile.
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174 Power Global has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement for a 200 MW solar project that it is developing in Colorado.
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A British buyer has stepped up to take majority cash equity stakes in two of EDP Renewables' wind projects in Illinois, one of which sells its output into PJM Interconnection and the other into MISO.
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Troutman Pepper has hired Judy Kwok, a tax lawyer focusing on renewable energy finance who used to work in-house at GE Energy Financial Services, from Mintz Levin.
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German pharmaceuticals company Boehringer Ingelheim has signed a deal with utility company Evergy for a portion of the output of of an Enel Green Power North America wind project in Kansas.
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New England utility Eversource Energy has appointed a new president and CEO from within its own ranks to replace Jim Judge, who is stepping back to become executive chairman, effective May 5.
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Dentons has hired Luis Torres from Latham & Watkins as a partner in its energy practice in Washington, DC.
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Houston-based oil pipeline investor Buckeye Partners has teamed up with global commodities house Trafigura's latest renewables venture, Nala Renewables, to acquire a majority stake in US renewables developer Swift Current Energy.
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BlackRock Real Assets has raised $4.8 billion for its Renewable Power Fund III, the third vintage of its flagship Global Renewable Power fund series and the largest yet.
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Engie Energia Peru has agreed to switch an existing power supply contract it has with Anglo American to 100% renewables and has secured a separate eight-year power purchase agreement with the company for a wind farm.
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Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has set up a new platform that combines its power and sustainable energy group with its energy resources group.
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Enel Generación Chile has signed a four-year supply agreement with Chilean fish farmer Blumar Seafoods and its subsidiaries.
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German developer BayWa r.e. has signed a loan with the North American Development Bank for a utility-scale solar project in Texas.
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Peruvian power supplier Atria Energia has hired former Vestas official Mario Pávez as the new general manager of its Chilean office.
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Avenue Capital Partners has hired a new portfolio manager for its sustainable solutions credit fund following the departure of the previous PM in January.
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Enel Green Power's subsidiary in Panama is moving forward with the construction of a 30.88 MW solar project in the province of Chiriquí.
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A trio of investors led by student loan servicer Nelnet has provided tax equity financing for a portfolio of community solar projects in the Northeastern US.
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Brian Goldstein, who was sector vice president and head of project finance at CoBank for six years, is no longer with the firm.
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Hanwha Group-owned 174 Power Global has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement for a 200 MW solar project that it is developing in Colorado.
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Brazilian asset manager Vinci Infraestrutura’s investment fund has concluded the acquisition of two wind farms from Petrobras and Wobben Windpower.
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Brazilian renewable energy producer Rio Alto Energias Renovaveis is preparing to go public via an initial public offering.
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A former head of power and utilities lending at RBC Capital Markets is among a trio of high-level hires announced by US solar developer Sol Systems on April 6.
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Intersect Power has made a raft of new hires to help build out its next 2.4 GW portfolio by 2023.
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Atlantic Power Corp has signed a new resource adequacy contract for its 49 MW Oxnard gas-fired plant in California.
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Pine Gate Renewables has clinched debt and tax equity financing for a pair of solar and storage projects that will sit atop cranberry bogs in Massachusetts, and sold the sponsor equity through a deal arranged by John Hancock.
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Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners has found a buyer for its RED-Rochester district energy system in New York state after shelving an earlier sale process for the asset last year.
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Energy Capital Partners has raised a $1.2 billion continuation fund to house its stake in renewables developer Terra-Gen, previously held under Energy Capital Partners III, employing a strategy that has come into vogue among private equity firms in recent years.
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Voltalia Brazil has appointed a new CFO as the incumbent departs to spearhead the growth of its distributed generation subsidiary Helexia as its local CEO.
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Spanish renewable energy developer Acciona has signed a long-term supply agreement to power telecommunication company Movistar’s operations in Chile.
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Colombian power producer Isagén has struck a deal to buy a 100 MW solar park in the country's Atlantico department.
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First Solar has sold its North American operations and maintenance business, shortly after closing the sale of its solar project development platform.
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NextEra Energy Transmission has closed its $660 million acquisition of GridLiance from Blackstone?.
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Advanced Power has secured a cash flow sweep amendment to the term loan B underpinning its 700 MW gas-fired Carroll County Energy Center in Ohio.
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DNB Bank has named Emilio Fabbrizzi as head of Americas renewables and infrastructure as it expands its coverage of the region.
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Sempra Energy has struck a deal to sell a non-controlling stake in its new Sempra Infrastructure Partners platform to investment firm KKR & Co.
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Engie North America has found a buyer for its 96 MW gas-fired Waterbury, Generation facility in Connecticut.
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Thomas Farrell, the former CEO of Dominion Energy, has passed away after a battle with cancer took a sudden turn.
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Engie’s subsidiary in Chile, Engie Energia Chile, has signed two four-year supply agreements with corporate offtakers in the country for a combined total of 4.98 GWh per year.
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German wind turbine firm Enercon has sold its stake in the company that owns a 117 MW wind farm in Uruguay to infrastructure fund manager DIF Capital Partners.
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Solar and battery storage developer Strata Solar has raised $150 million of flexible capital in a deal with Blackstone Credit ?and its affiliates.
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President Joe Biden has announced an ambitious $2 trillion infrastructure plan that includes a wide-reaching set of initiatives aimed at supercharging the country's clean power and renewables industry.
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Coelba, a Brazilian electric distribution company owned by Neoenergia, has closed a financing agreement with two Japanese institutions.
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Brazilian firm Equatorial Energia has won the auction to acquire CEEE-D, an electric distribution company located in the south of the country, from the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
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Canadian developer Greengate Power Corp has hired former AltaGas director of power finance Scott Perry as a business development executive in Calgary.
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Chile's antitrust body, Fiscalia Nacional Economica, has approved the acquisition of a Chilean electric distribution company by Chinese state-owned company State Grid International Development.
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Leeward Renewable Energy has closed its acquisition of First Solar's 10 GW utility-scale solar project development platform.
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A successor has been found for SunPower CEO Tom Werner, who is retiring after 18 years with the company.
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A bladeless wind generator designed by a Madrid-based start-up has been dubbed the "Skybrator" due to its suggestive shape and the way it oscillates back-and-forth in a stiff breeze.
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A municipal utility in Iowa has launched a request for proposals for solar projects including one to be built at a specified site.
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A pair of regulated utilities are seeking regulatory approval to acquire a 92 MW wind farm in Wisconsin as part of a proposed build-transfer deal.
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Colombian firm Axia Energia is working on a gas-fired project in Santa Rosa, in the department of Bolivar.
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Jennifer Wnek has joined Allen & Overy’s projects, energy, natural resources and infrastructure practice as a partner in New York, joining six Akin Gump partners who officially made the move at the beginning of March.
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Spanish firm Grupo Ortiz has begun the permitting process for a transmission project in the Colombian department of Atlántico.
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Fuel cell manufacturer Plug Power is planning to build a green hydrogen production plant in Pennsylvania that would use generation from Brookfield Renewable's 252 MW Holtwood hydro facility.
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Spanish developer and independent power producer OPDEnergy has won a power purchase agreement from AEP Energy Partners for a solar project in West Virginia.
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Czech solar developer Solek has begun the permitting process for a small-scale solar project in the Chilean region of Valparaiso.
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Competitive Power Ventures is preparing to mandate an arranger for the refinancing of a gas-fired combined-cycle project on the US East Coast.
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Ørsted has brought in Ben Pratt, a former senior managing director for power origination and trading at Uniper Global Commodities North America, to oversee its Chicago-based US energy trading team.
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The White House has rolled out a raft of new leasing, funding and development goals that will catalyze offshore wind projects, strengthen supply chains and create union jobs.
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Ørsted has made a final investment decision on a combined wind and solar project in Texas, which the Danish company expects to be online in the first half of 2022.
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ContourGlobal and Alpek have formed a new joint venture to develop a carbon capture and liquefaction facility in Mexico to supply the food, beverage, and medical industries.
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Utility-scale solar and storage developer Candela Renewables, which was originally set up in 2018, has made three new hires, including a director of finance.
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A former managing director at Rubicon Capital Advisors has taken up a C-suite position at BrightNight, the renewable energy business set up by ex-8minute Energy CEO Martin Hermann, and which was featured in documentary produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Grupo Ibereólica and Global Power Generation have reached financial close on a wind farm and a solar project, collectively known as Nexus, in Chile.
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Colbún has signed a sales and purchase agreement for its transmission business, seven months after beginning a search for investors.
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The London-listed US Solar Fund has reached financial close on the acquisition of a 25% stake in the 154 MW Mount Signal 2 solar project in California.
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Three members of BlackRock’s infrastructure credit group have left the firm for The Carlyle Group in New York.
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Invenergy has sold a majority stake in a 300 MW contracted wind farm in South Dakota that recently came online.
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Although the Peruvian renewable energy market has been slow to develop compared to that of its neighbors, sponsors such as ENGIE Energia Peru are gradually ramping up their activities in the country.
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CCA Group has added to its renewable energy advisory team with a senior hire from MUFG's leasing and asset finance division.
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Enel Green Power has been awarded a concession by Peru’s Ministry of Mines and Energy to develop a 116.45 MW solar project in the country.
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An Israeli investor ?has struck a deal to acquire a 200 MW solar project in the Lonestar State.
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Spanish firm Solarpack has begun the permitting process for a 9 MW solar project in the Chilean region of Arica and Parinacota.
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A renewables developer in the US is looking for a strategic investor to take an up to $300 million equity stake.
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Japanese conglomerate ORIX Corp has agreed to purchase majority stakes in a roughly 350 MW portfolio of operational wind farms in the US.
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has struck a deal to buy power and renewable energy credits from a Lightsource BP solar portfolio via a retail supply contract with Constellation, which the state government says is the largest solar commitment secured by any government entity in the US — surpassing any federal, state or municipal commitments.
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Texas-based developer Cielo Wind has begun the permitting process for a 486 MW wind farm in the Chilean region of Biobio.
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The Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul has reversed the judicial decision that suspended the privatization of state-owned power distribution company CEEE-D.
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Clearway Energy Group has closed a $128 million debt financing for a wind project that it is repowering in West Virginia.
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Potentia Renewables has bought a portfolio of commercial-scale solar projects in Ontario from Connor, Clark & Lunn Infrastructure and solar project developer CarbonFree Technology.
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Connor, Clark & Lunn Infrastructure has notified the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that it closed the previously announced acquisition of an 80% stake in a 563 MW US renewables portfolio from EDP Renewables, almost three months after the transaction took place.
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Spanish developer Solarpack has identified investment opportunities for a 748 MW (DC) string of solar projects that it is developing in Chile and Colombia.
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New York-based developer Daroga Power is raising $205 million for a portfolio of fuel cell projects across the US, having closed financing for a previous portfolio in December.
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Kirkland & Ellis has hired a senior tax attorney from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe as it builds up its renewable energy finance practice.
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LS Power subsidiary CPower Energy Management has made six new hires as it looks to strengthen its position in the distributed energy resources (DER) market.
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Invenergy has closed the construction financing for its 999 MW Traverse Wind Energy Center, the last to be financed of the three projects that make up its 1,485 MW North Central Wind Energy portfolio in Oklahoma.
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PG&E Corp has appointed Chris Foster as its new executive vice president and CFO, effective March 20.
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Steel manufacturer Nucor Corp has signed a power purchase agreement with Ørsted for a portion of the output of a wind farm in Texas.
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First Sentier Investors has agreed to purchase an additional stake in Terra-Gen, which would raise its interest in the company to 50%.
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Spanish developer OPDEnergy has begun the permitting process for a pair of small-scale solar projects totaling 18 MW in Chile.
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Chicago-headquartered investment bank Marathon Capital is planning to open a new office in Latin America this year, after opening a UK outpost in January.
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The US International Development Finance Corp (DFC) has signed a credit guarantee with Swedish crowdfunding firm Trine to catalyze financing for off-grid solar projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Luiz Carranza Ugarte has announced that he will step down as president of the Latin America development bank CAF on April 23.
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New Fortress Energy intends to offer $1.5 billion in notes to fund its acquisition of Golar LNG Partners.
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A developer has launched an auction for a community solar portfolio in New York as it nears a sale on another similar portfolio in the same state.
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Annova LNG, which is majority owned by Exelon Corp, has scrapped an LNG export project "due to changes in the global LNG market."
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has struck a deal to buy power and renewable energy credits from a Lightsource BP solar portfolio via a retail supply contract with Constellation, which the state government says is the largest solar commitment secured by any government entity in the US — surpassing any federal, state or municipal commitments.
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Soltage has secured a $250 million equity commitment for a 450 MW portfolio of solar, solar-plus-storage and standalone storage assets across the US.
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Czech solar developer Solek has signed an $85.25 million senior secured loan to finance a portfolio of small-scale projects in Chile known as PMGDs.
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Hunt Energy Network, an affiliate of Hunt Consolidated, has raised capital from an insurance fund manager for a portfolio of distributed energy storage assets in Texas.
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Brazil’s investment partnerships agency, PPI, has approved the inclusion of several transmission projects to its national priorities list ahead of tenders set to take place later this year.
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S&P Global Ratings has given the senior secured term loan B financing for I Squared Capital's take private of Atlantic Power Corp a rating of BB-.
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EnfraGen, a joint venture between Glenfarne Group and Partners Group, has acquired a 117 MW portfolio of small-scale solar projects in Chile.
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Chevron Canada has pulled funding for its proposed Kitimat LNG Project in British Columbia.
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Houston-headquartered NextDecade Corp has formed a new subsidiary focusing on carbon capture and storage, called NEXT Carbon Solutions, which will develop a CCS project at the site of the Rio Grande LNG export terminal in South Texas.
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Texas utility CPS Energy has won approval from the San Antonio City Council to seek an up to $500 million line of credit to provide short-term liquidity in the wake of winter storm Uri.
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Pennsylvania-based PPL Corp has appointed an alumnus of both FirstEnergy Corp and Exelon Corp as general counsel and corporate secretary.
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FirstEnergy Corp has filled its vacancy for a chief ethics and compliance officer with a hire from another utility holding company as it seeks to disentangle itself from a long-running bribery scandal in Ohio.
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IDB Invest has appointed Orlando Ferreira and Alexandre Meira da Rosa as CFO and chief strategy officer, respectively.
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Chilean company Inversiones Bosquemar has begun the permitting process for a project that will combined solar and wind generation in the region of Ñuble.
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The Brazilian subsidiary of Engie is moving forward with the sale of its stake in the Pampa Sul coal-fired plant in Rio Grande do Sul.
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AES Brasil has closed a capital increase for Guaimbê Solar, a subsidiary that owns operational wind and solar projects, through the issuance of preferred shares to Itau Unibanco.
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Enel Green Power has signed an aggregated virtual power purchase agreement with a consortium of four non-utility offtakers – including ridesharing company Uber – which has been described as the largest contract of its kind.
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Several renowned Scotch whisky makers, including Glenmorangie, are working out a spirited plan to power their Highland distilleries with green hydrogen produced using generation from nearby offshore and onshore wind farms.
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Three utilities are seeking regulatory approval for power purchase agreements for a solar and storage project being developed by Invenergy in Wisconsin.
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Generate Capital has hired Alfred Griffin, the founding president of NY Green Bank, to oversee its new sustainable infrastructure credit platform as senior managing director.
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Second round bids are due in the sale of a stake in one of several solar projects that are being developed to replace generation from the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station in New Mexico.
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Pacific Hydro, a renewable company with assets in Australia, Chile, and Brazil, is looking to expand an existing 120 MW (DC) solar park in Chile by a further 173 MW (DC).
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Solar developer Solek has begun the permitting process for eight small-scale projects totaling about 60 MW in Chile, bringing the total size of its planned small-scale solar portfolio in the country to roughly 291.45 MW (DC).
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Enegix Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding with US-based Black & Veatch to complete feasibility studies for the construction of a $5.4 billion green hydrogen plant planned in Brazil.
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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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As the Mexican government pushes through its counter-reform of the energy sector, some investors are preparing to leave the country while others attempt to navigate the uncertainty.
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A private equity firm has put a roughly 600 MW portfolio of merchant wind projects in New York state on the auction block.
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Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets has bought a geothermal energy platform based out of Utah and is combining it with another recent purchase to create one of the largest independent geothermal platforms in the country.
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Initial price talk has been circulated for the term loan B that I Squared Capital is issuing to partly fund its acquisition of North American independent power producer Atlantic Power Corp.
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Invenergy has signed a build-transfer agreement with a utility for a solar project in Indiana, as this type of deal becomes more common in the solar sector.
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Brazil's investment partnerships agency, PPI, has included the privatization of state-owned generation, transmission and distribution company Eletrobras in its national priority list.
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An infrastructure fund manager is preparing to auction off its interests in what it is said to be the largest dispatchable distributed generation fleet in Texas.
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Carl Icahn's activist fund Icahn Capital has secured two seats on FirstEnergy's board of directors, weeks after declaring its intention to acquire a stake in the beleagured Ohio electric utility.
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Chilean sponsor Renova Energias has begun the permitting process for a 9 MW solar project in Santiago’s metropolitan region.
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NRG Energy has scrapped its 2021 financial guidance due to uncertainty over the full impact of February's winter storm Uri in Texas, which it expects will be more significant than it had previously reported.
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The development finance institution FinDev Canada, previously known as Development Finance Institute Canada, has appointed infrastructure finance expert Lori Kerr as its new CEO, replacing the interim CEO Ken Kember.
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I Squared Capital is approaching the market with 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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Madrid-based developer EDP Renováveis has hired Felipe de Gamboa as its new country manager in Colombia.
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A judge has suspended the privatization process for Rio Grande do Sul's electric distribution company, CEEE-D.
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Fortescue Future Industries, a subsidiary of Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Prumo Logística for the development of a green hydrogen plant at Prumo's Port of Açu in Brazil.
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Able Grid Energy Solutions has selected a technology provider for a pair of standalone energy storage projects it is developing in southern Texas, which will sell their output wholesale into the Ercot market.
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Ridgewood Infrastructure has formed a new joint venture with Sustainability Partners to own sustainable water, energy efficiency, transportation, communications and other infrastructure in the US.
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The International Finance Corporation has appointed Juan Gonzalo Flores as country manager for Mexico.
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Duke Energy Renewables has revealed the identity of one of the offtakers for its 350 MW Frontier Windpower II project in Kern County, Oklahoma.
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Private equity-backed solar and storage company Catalyze has grown its distributed generation portfolio with the acquisition of two community solar projects totaling 13 MW (DC) in Upstate New York.
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Enel Green Power has signed an aggregated virtual power purchase agreement with a consortium of four non-utility offtakers – including ridesharing company Uber – which has been described as the largest contract of its kind.
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The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law has ruled in favor of the Colombian government in a dispute over its 2016 seizure of regional utility Electricaribe from Spain's Naturgy Energy (then Gas Natural Fenosa).
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Peru’s Ministry of Energy and Mines has granted Engie’s subsidiary in the country the concession to develop a 260 MW wind project.
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Celeo Redes is planning to build a new solar park in the Northeast of Brazil with a capacity of between 400 MW and 500 MW.
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Brazilian developer Casa dos Ventos has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement with BP for its Rio do Vento wind farm.
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NextEra Energy has priced a floating rate note offering over SOFR rather than Libor for the first time, becoming one of the first non-financial corporate bond issuers to do so.
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Griddy Energy has filed for bankruptcy protection and proposed a reorganization plan owing to the financial devastation wreaked by winter storm Uri in Texas.
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Sunrun has priced a $201 million securitization of leases and power purchase agreements, which it says has the lowest spread out of any previous Sunrun or Vivint Solar asset-backed security issuances to date.
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MPC Energy Solutions has agreed to buy a portfolio of wind and solar projects totaling 140 MW in Panama and Mexico.
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IDB Invest has closed a debt package which will support the acquisition of an LNG tanker in Singapore and its subsequent conversion into a floating storage and regasification unit in El Salvador.
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Gas pipeline company Kinder Morgan has formed a new division called Energy Transition Ventures to identify, analyze and pursue commercial opportunities in the low-carbon energy transition.
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Italy's Enel has announced the launch of a public tender offer for 10% of Santiago-listed subsidiary Enel Americas' shares, dependent on the closing of the latter's merger with Enel Green Power in Central and South America.
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Lightsource BP has obtained loans from a Brazilian regional development finance fund for a group of five solar projects in the state of Ceará.
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The Inter-American Development Bank has partnered with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) to improve access to financing for renewable energy investments in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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GenOn Energy has launched a project financing for a pair of dual-fuel peaking power plants in PJM Interconnection in the bank market.
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Oaktree Capital Management has reached financial close on a $137 million holding company loan to lever up its stake in a small-scale LNG export project in Florida.
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Enel Green Power Chile has received environmental approval to move forward with a 400 MW solar asset in the Chilean region of Antofagasta following a 20-month regulatory process.
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BlackRock managing director Cathleen Ellsworth, who was co-head of global energy and power infrastructure fundraising and investor relations, has left for a new opportunity.
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Nautilus Solar Energy has bought a 47 MW (DC) community solar portfolio in Maine from ISM Solar Development.
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Dynegy has inked a three-year renewable energy credit contract with Chicago's Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (MPEA) for the McCormick Place convention center.
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Argentinian developer Genneia has signed a supply agreement with Cargill Argentina, the local subsidiary of Minnesota's Cargill.
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Invenergy has secured a 25-year offtake contract with a utility for its Calhoun Solar Center in Michigan.
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Wilmington Trust has appointed Abby Mrozinski as head of global capital markets, replacing Jack Beeson, who is retiring after 38 years with the company.
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British power producer ContourGlobal has closed its $837 million acquisition of a portfolio of gas-fired assets in the US and Trinidad and Tobago, including combined-heat-and-power plants.
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A buyer has emerged for Upper Peninsula Power Co, the Michigan-based electric utility owned by Basalt Infrastructure Partners.
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Enel Green Power Panama has signed a five-year power purchase agreement with information technology firm KIO Networks Panama.
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The Guatemala-based developer Enertiva has signed a power purchase agreement for a small-scale solar asset, which will be financed by a New York-based fund management firm.
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Peru's Ministry of Mines and Energy has awarded two substation contracts in the department of Ica to a subsidiary of the Colombian firm Interconexión Electrica.
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EDP Energias do Brasil has concluded the acquisition of 40% of the voting shares in Blue Sol Participações, which owns a residential solar business in Brazil.
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Brazilian fund manager Patria Investments has launched its first publicly-traded core energy infrastructure fund, Patria Infraestrutura Energia Core, which is listed in São Paulo.
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LS Power has closed its purchase of the 50% stake it did not already own in the 420 MW Yards Creek pumped hydro storage plant in Blairstown, New Jersey.
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Peruvian power supplier Atria Energia has hired former Luz del Sur official Alcibiades Rojas as an operational manager in Peru.
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Paul Dobson, the former CFO and interim CEO of Canada's Hydro One, has landed a new C-suite role at a fuel cell company.
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AES Gener has signed a memorandum of understanding for a hydrogen-based ammonia plant in Chile that would require 800 MW of renewable energy.
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Refocosta, a subsidiary of Colombian firm Grupo Valorem, has closed financing for a small-scale biomass project in Colombia that is intended to reduce the local area's reliance on power from Venezuela.
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Albert Luu, who worked in capital markets at SolarCity and Tesla for many years, has landed a CFO role at another residential solar company, Complete Solar.
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Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) is combining two portfolio companies – waste-to-energy business Wheelabrator Technologies and waste-by-rail company Tunnel Hill Partners – and refinancing them with a $1 billion term loan.
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Canadian natural gas and electricity retailer Just Energy has filed for bankruptcy protection following winter storm Uri in Texas.
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LS Power has agreed to buy a 125 MW solar project in California that could be fitted with an energy storage system.
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Spanish law firm Cuatrecasas has snagged energy lawyer Fabio Ardila from competitor Gómez-Pinzón to work from the Bogota office in Colombia.
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Italy's Enel has set a date for the merger of most of the renewable energy businesses of its Enel Green Power subsidiary in Central and South America with its Santiago-listed regional subsidiary Enel Americas.
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The Chilean subsidiary of AES Corp, AES Gener, has appointed Ignacio Lis as commercial director, responsible for developing its renewable energy strategy.
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Brazilian independent power producer Omega Geração is preparing to issue unsecured debentures totaling R$1.05 billion to refinance a portfolio of recently acquired wind projects.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority has renewed its $150 million credit facility arranged by local banks.
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FirstEnergy Corp has appointed Steven Strah as its new CEO, effective immediately.
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Power Finance & Risk is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for its 18th Annual Deals and Firms of the Year Awards.
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Nexamp has closed one of the largest financing transactions for a community solar portfolio in the US, totaling $440 million.
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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has completed its environmental review of the 800 MW Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts.
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Colombia's Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) has postponed the procurement process for an LNG regasification project on Buenaventura Bay on the Colombian Pacific Coast.
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Ecuador's Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources has received one offer in the procurement process to develop a 14.8 MW (DC) solar project with a 40.9 MWh lithium-ion battery storage system on the country's Galapagos Islands.
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Brazil has registered a total of 1,841 projects totaling almost 67 GW to compete in power auctions scheduled for June 15, 2021.
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Private equity firm Denham Capital ?is aiming to float renewable energy developer Rio Energy via an initial public offering on Brazil’s B3 stock exchange.
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Spanish firm Ferrovial is understood to be interested in buying the transmission subsidiary of Colbún, Colbún Transmisión.
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Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp has provided extra details on which of its hedged wind farms in Texas were impacted by winter storm Uri.
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Macquarie Capital's renewable energy development platform Savion has signed a power purchase agreement with a corporate offtaker for a Texas solar project.
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Brazilian state-owned bank Caixa Econômica Federal has issued a request for proposals for energy projects and other infrastructure assets to finance.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority has signed a power purchase agreement with a developer for a solar-plus-storage project in Mississippi, which will help power Facebook data centers.
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Goldman Sachs Renewable Power (GSRP) has agreed to buy a community solar portfolio in New York state from a Spanish sponsor.
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Colombia has published a draft of the terms for the country’s second renewable auction, which is set to take place this year.
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The Argentinian developer Genneia has appointed Bernardo Andrews as its new CEO, replacing the incumbent who had led the firm for almost a decade.
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MUFG has introduced a new CLO asset class, bundling $500 million of project finance and infrastructure loans together for Starwood Property Trust in a deal that clearly demonstrated investor appetite for the product.
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This week's PPA Pulse features a Kellogg Co power purchase agreement with a combined wind and battery storage project in Texas.
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Brazil’s Aliança Geração de Energia has raised R$270 million ($48.2 million) with debentures to finance the 109,2 MW Acauã wind farm.
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Iberdrola’s Brazilian subsidiary Neoenergia has closed its acquisition of the distribution company Companhia Energetica de Brasilia Distribuição.
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White Pine Renewables has completed the Healdsburg Floating Solar Project, which it claims is the largest operational floating solar project in the US.
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Brazil’s state-owned nuclear company, Eletronuclear, has published a bidding notice to contract an EPC company to resume the civil works of the Angra 3 nuclear project.
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Ørsted has secured a pair of corporate power purchase agreements for its 298 MW Haystack Wind project in Nebraska.
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AEP Energy Partners is looking to sign power purchase agreements with wind, solar and battery energy storage projects in PJM Interconnection to support its growing retail business,
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has appointed SunEdison and Generate Capital founder Jigar Shah to the top job in its Loans Programs Office (LPO).
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A developer recently recirculated teasers for a 50 MW solar project in North Carolina after a deal with a foreign buyer was nixed.
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Brazilian renewable power producer Casa dos Ventos has closed a loan with the country’s development bank BNDES to fund two wind farms.
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Clearway Energy has priced a $925 million 10-year green high yield bond and launched a tender offer for debt maturing in 2025 to take advantage of low rates and push out its maturity profile.
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FTI Consulting has added to its power and renewable energy advisory practice in San Francisco with the hiring of former Citi banker Miriam Wrobel as a senior managing director.
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Enel Green Power North America has signed a power purchase agreement with cereal maker Kellogg Co for the output of a combined wind and battery storage project in Texas.
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Utility CenterPoint Energy has issued $1.7 billion in short-term fixed- and floating-rate debt to help alleviate the impact of winter storm Uri in Texas.
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BlackRock Real Assets' solar development platform Distributed Solar Development (DSD) has secured a $150 million revolving credit facility to finance the construction of distributed generation projects in the commercial and industrial market.
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Investec has expanded its power and infrastructure team in New York with the addition of a senior banker who is an alum of First Reserve and Credit Suisse.
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EDP Renewables has closed its acquisition of an 85% stake in C2 Energy Capital's distributed solar platform C2 Omega.
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Before 2020 came to a close, New York-based developer Glenfarne Group was able to refinance its roughly 1.5 GW Latin American generation portfolio with a mix of bank debt and bonds, following a path opened up by other sponsors in the region who had refinanced their assets earlier in the year.
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Chilean developer Orion Power has begun the permitting process for a third small-scale solar asset in the Santiago’s Metropolitan region in Chile.
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Castleton Commodities International has found a buyer for an merchant wind farm in West Virginia.
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Apex Clean Energy has sold its Jayhawk Wind project in Kansas, which has a power purchase agreement with Facebook.
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The Carlyle Group has announced that it has struck a deal to sell a combined-cycle gas-fired power plant in Georgia, weeks after filing for US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval to sell another gas-fired asset in the same state.
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Hanwha Q Cells has sold an operational, contracted solar project in Texas to Adapture Renewables, a Californian company that is backed by Kirkbi, the investment holding company of the family behind Lego Group.
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Deal watchers say the sudden bankruptcy filing of Brazos Electric Power Cooperative – which had previously enjoyed single-A credit ratings – could be the first of many in the wake of the recent winter storms in Texas.
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Colombia's Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) has postponed the procurement process for the country's first large-scale battery storage system.
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Brazil’s Aliança Geração de Energia has financed a 109.2 MW wind farm with the issuance of R$270 million in debentures.
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Enegix Energy has announced a $5.4 billion green hydrogen project in the Brazilian state of Ceará, following the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the state in February.
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EDF Renewables North America has signed a power purchase agreement with a second offtaker for its 345 MW Space City Solar project in Texas.
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Solar developer Verano Capital has begun the permitting process for a 9 MW project in the Chilean region of Valparaiso.
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A group of former creditors of the Coso Geothermal portfolio in California, who have owned it since a debt restructuring in 2017, have signed a deal to sell it to a new strategic owner.
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British energy infrastructure investor SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust has closed its acquisition of a portfolio of distributed generation assets and a 50% stake in US renewables developer Onyx Renewable Partners.
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Akin Gump’s project finance and renewables practice has relocated en masse to Allen & Overy, greatly expanding the British firm’s presence in the US, which will include an office on the West Coast for the first time.
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BBVA Uruguay has issued the first private sustainability bond in Uruguay, the proceeds of which the lender will use to finance energy efficiency projects, among other investments.
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Law firm Latham & Watkins has elected two energy-focused attorneys to the partnership in the US, starting this month.
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MPC Energy Solutions has signed exclusivity agreements to purchase and develop two renewable assets in Colombia and the Caribbean.
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NRG Energy is selling a portfolio of US fossil fuel-fired generation assets totaling 4,850 MW to ArcLight Capital Partners.
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Two utilities in the Hoosier State recently awarded contracts to solar projects due to be online in 2023, including a relatively rare build-transfer deal.
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Trinergy, the Chilean subsidiary of Swiss-German company Tritec-Intervento, is seeking permits for a pair of small-scale solar projects.
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Georgia Power has issued its first sustainability bond – which is similar to a green bond but with an expanded list of eligible projects that include social initiatives.
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Altus Power America plans to start construction on a 4.5 MW ground-mounted solar project in Kapolei, Hawaii, on the island of O'ahu, which is expected to be the largest community renewable energy project in the state.
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CenterPoint Energy has secured $1.7 billion in financing commitments to help weather the impact of winter storm Uri in Texas.
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In February, for the first time, Power Finance & Risk brought together representatives of the bank loan, private placement, term loan B and tax equity markets with a project sponsor to discuss the state of project finance, how they coped with the Covid-19 pandemic and what is in store for 2021.
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EDP Energias do Brasil has reached a deal to buy AES Brasil's distributed solar platform in Brazil.
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AES Brasil has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with ferroalloys company Companhia de Ferro Ligas da Bahia-Ferbasa.
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As winter storm clouds pass over Texas, frozen natural gas pipelines thaw out and icy wind turbine blades start spinning again, project finance professionals and investors are starting to form a clearer picture of the fallout for power generation assets in the state.
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New York-based hydrogen fuel cell manufacturer Plug Power has closed a $1.6 billion investment from South Korea's SK Group.
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Wells Fargo's tax equity investments in wind, solar and fuel cell projects in the US have surpassed the $10 billion mark.
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The proposed acquisition of a Chilean electric distribution company by Chinese state-owned company State Grid International Development (SGID) has worried local politicians.
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Solar developer Solek is preparing to start construction in October on an additional 9 MW solar project in Chile, bringing the total size of its planned small-scale solar portfolio in the country to 233.5 MW (DC).
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Enel Generación Chile has signed a 22-year power supply agreement with Chilean cement company Melón.
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Enel Green Power North America has sold a 25 MW portfolio of hydro plants in the US.
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AES Corp detailed power purchase agreements for 3 GW of renewable and energy storage projects across the Americas that the company's subsidiaries signed in 2020 as it released its year-end financial results.
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Macquarie-backed waste-to-energy business Wheelabrator Technologies has struck a deal to sell a biomass plant in California.
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Castlelake has found a buyer for a repowered 57.5 MW wind farm in California that it financed with debt and tax equity last summer.
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CenterPoint Energy is requesting regulatory approval for a power purchase agreement for an Indiana solar project.
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The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority has issued a request for proposals for private partners to develop 1 GW of renewable energy capacity and 500 MW of battery energy storage on the island.
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Exelon Corp has announced its intention to spin its competitive generation and retail power businesses off into a separate publicly-listed company following a strategic review.
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AES Brasil has received approval to start construction on the first two phases of the up-to-582.8 MW Tucano wind complex in the Brazilian state of Bahia.
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Investec has appointed Ralph Cho and Michael Pantelogianis as global co-heads of its power and infrastructure finance group.
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AES Corp's Chilean subsidiary, AES Gener, has signed a deal to sell its interest in the Guacolda coal-fired asset in Chile to the co-owner of the plant, WEG Group.
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AES Corp subsidiaries Indianapolis Power & Light Co and Dayton Power and Light Co have announced that they will go by new names as part of a rebranding.
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A $147 million debt raise for the construction of a small-scale LNG facility in Florida is slated to close imminently.
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Capital Dynamics is developing a 300 MW solar project in Posey County, Indiana, to be sold to a utility company once it is online.
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Goldman Sachs managing director Jean-Pierre Boudrias, who led the investment bank's North American project finance desk, has left the firm after almost eight years.
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Grupo Saesa has begun the permitting process for a pair of small-scale solar projects in the Chilean region of Antofagasta that will supply power to astronomical observatories.
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Harbert Management Corp has agreed to acquire an equity stake in a roughly 680 MW simple-cycle, gas-fired power plant in Georgia.
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New Columbia Solar has rounded up tax equity and debt financing for a portfolio of 50 distributed solar projects in the District of Columbia.
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The Carlyle Group is taking full ownership of the Patriot and Liberty combined-cycle gas-fired assets in Pennsylvania by buying out its co-investor, EIG Global Energy Partners.
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Brookfield Infrastructure Partners and Kinder Morgan have struck a deal to sell a minority stake in their jointly owned Natural Gas Pipeline Co of America (NGPL) to ArcLight Capital Partners, weeks after PFR reported that ArcLight was among the bidders circling the asset.
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Cordelio Power has bought a 400 MW wind project that is under development in Audrain County, Missouri.
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Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has fired the president of state-owned oil company Petrobras, Roberto Castello Branco, owing to a disagreement over fuel pricing policy.
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Macquarie Capital has launched a platform to develop, own and operate liquified natural gas, regasification and power assets in Latin America as well as Asia.
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Colombian developer Isagén has agreed to buy two hydro plants in the country totaling 39.8 MW.
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Innergex Renewable Energy says that its renewable energy assets in Texas, which have hedges with Citi and Shell Energy North America, have been affected both positively and negatively as a result of the chilling winter weather in the state.
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Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp could lose up to $55 million as a result of the Texas winter storms, which have caused its hedged wind projects to freeze over, undercutting revenues.
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Solar developer Solek has begun the permitting process for eight small-scale solar projects totaling some 73 MW in Chile.
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NRG Energy has pushed back its fourth quarter 2020 earnings call because the company's CEO is tied up dealing with the fall-out of the recent power crisis in Texas.
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Invenergy subsidiary Tealov is working with IDB Invest to finance the construction of a transmission line in Uruguay.
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Capital Dynamics has secured a power purchase agreement for a 150 MW solar project it is developing in Indiana.
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EDP Brasil has acquired a concession for the development of a 113 km transmission line from IG Group.
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Kirkland & Ellis has hired a partner in its debt finance practice in New York from a rival law firm.
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People's United Bank has launched a new utilities, power and renewable energy franchise to be led by a hire from another regional lender.
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Arroyo Energy has begun the permitting process for a 126 MW solar project in the Chilean region of Antofagasta.
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A group of Chilean generation companies (gencos) affected by the country's 2019 power price freeze are preparing a private placement to securitize deferred receivables that will represent the second tranche of a bond issued ten days ago.
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Orrick has promoted two energy and infrastructure lawyers to partner.
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Energy Impact Partners has joined in the series C fundraising round for AddÉnergie Technologies, a Canadian electric vehicle charging company.
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The World Bank has appointed Makhtar Diop as managing director and executive vice president to head the International Finance Corp effective March 2021.
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When Clearway Energy Group recently offloaded a 1.6 GW portfolio of renewable energy assets to its yieldco Clearway Energy, third-party co-investor Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital opted for an unusual capital structure, swapping out common equity for preferred equity instead.
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AES Brasil is rounding up power purchase agreements for a wind complex under development in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte.
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Prisma Capital has emerged as the winning bidder for Renova Energia's Alto Sertão III Phase B wind asset in Brazil.
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Securitization exists in the public consciousness primarily as a shadowy corner of the capital markets in which out-of-control financial engineering causes global economic meltdowns. Could it be due a reappraisal?
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Eight community choice aggregators in California are aiming to leverage their collective purchasing power by combining to form a new joint powers authority called California Community Power.
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Details have emerged regarding the expected timeline for the sale of battery storage developer and independent power producer Key Capture Energy.
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Origis Energy is seeking a buyer for a portfolio of three solar and battery storage projects each located in a different US states.
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Nuveen has agreed to acquire C-PACE (commercial property assessed clean energy) financier Greenworks Lending.
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Carl Icahn's activist fund Icahn Capital has written a letter to FirstEnergy Corp declaring its intention to acquire a stake in the electric utility, which is entangled in a long-running Ohio bribery scandal.
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Matrix Renewables, a portfolio company of private equity firm TPG, expects to keep purchasing assets as it attempts to build a roughly 3 GW operational portfolio by 2023.
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Southern California Edison has priced its first securitization in more than 20 years, the proceeds of which it will use to finance upgrades and other costs associated with its wildfire prevention program.
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Sempra Energy's Mexican subsidiary, IEnova, has agreed to purchase a 50% stake in the Energia Sierra Juarez wind project in Mexico from its partner Saavi Energia, a portfolio company of Actis.
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Brazil’s national development bank BNDES is providing loans totaling R$1.49 billion ($278 million) to 10 power distributors owned by Energisa Group.
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As winter storms wallop Texas, leaving around four million people to wait out rolling blackouts and sending power prices skyrocketing, project finance professionals and investors are assessing the fallout for project-financed assets in the Lone Star State.
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Swiss private bank Lombard Odier has made two senior hires in the US to help cultivate sustainable private credit strategies.
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Sunnova Energy International has reached a deal to buy the residential solar business of homebuilder Lennar Corp.
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Allete Clean Energy has signed a deal to sell two repowered wind projects in Minnesota to utility holding company Xcel Energy.
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Duke Energy has awarded 20-year power purchase agreements to 11 solar projects totaling 664 MW in North Carolina following a competitive request for proposals.
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France's Cap Vert Energie has begun the permitting process for a 9 MW solar project in Chile, adding to its small-scale solar pipeline in the country.
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Mexico's competition authority, Cofece, has urged Congress not to pass a bill that would unwind the country's landmark energy market reforms of 2014.
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The Latin American subsidiary of Spanish developer Cox Energy is in talks with banks to finance a 308 MW (DC) solar project in Chile’s Atacama desert.
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Regional law firm BLP Legal has promoted an energy lawyer to partner, reinforcing its infrastructure and finance coverage in Central America.
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Dallas-based oil and gas pipeline company Energy Transfer has established a new group aimed at developing alternative energy projects.
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Appalachian Power has issued a request for proposals for up to 300 MW of solar and wind generation in Virginia, with the option for battery storage.
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Longroad Energy Holdings has struck a deal to buy a 900 MW (DC) portfolio of solar projects in Arizona from First Solar.
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Oil company Ecopetrol has entered into an exclusivity agreement with Colombia's Ministry of Finance and Public Credit to buy a majority stake in transmission company Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA).
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Sunpin Solar has confirmed that it secured a financial hedge with Morgan Stanley for its 70 MW Titan Solar 1 project in California, almost a year after PFR first reported that the deal was in the works.
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IDB Invest has arranged an A/B loan to finance the purchase of receivables from several renewable energy projects and portfolios in Chile as part of its strenuous efforts to prop up the country’s power sector, which is reeling from a government-mandated price freeze.
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A joint venture between Repsol and Grupo Ibereólica Renovables has signed a 14-year power purchase agreement for a wind farm in the Chilean region of Atacama.
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Iberdrola’s Neoenergia has issued R$2 billion ($369 million) in debentures in the Brazilian capital market to fund the acquisition of Companhia Energetica de Brasilia Distribuição (CEB-D).
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EDF Renewable Energy has signed a power purchase agreement with German chemical company BASF for the output of a wind farm in Texas.
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Portland General Electric has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement for the output of a solar project in Oregon, in part to supply chip maker Intel with renewable energy.
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The underwriters of the initial public offering for Apollo Global Management's third energy transition special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), Spartan Acquisition Corp III, have exercised their greenshoe option in full, bringing the total size of the deal to $552 million.
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Enel Green Power has appointed Bruno Riga as its new country manager in Mexico, replacing Paolo Romanacci, who had held the position since 2016.
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The past week's PPA news has seen corporates, CCAs and local communities emerging as the winners of renewable energy procurements across North America.
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Developer Verano Capital has begun the permitting process for a 9 MW solar project in the Metropolitan region of Chile.
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Brazil's power regulator Aneel has published the details of its first transmission line auction of 2021, which is now scheduled for June 30.
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One of the main contenders in the privatization of southern Brazilian utility company Companhia Estadual de Distribuição de Energia Elétrica (CEEE-D), Iberdrola subsidiary Neoenergia, has announced that it will not bid for the company.
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US lawmakers have reintroduced the Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now (GREEN) Act, first floated in June 2020, which would extend tax credits for renewable and carbon capture projects and create an incentive for standalone energy storage.
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Peninsula Clean Energy has signed power purchase agreements totaling 245 MW for the output of three Californian wind farms.
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Eight community choice aggregators in northern and central California are looking to leverage their collective purchasing power by combining to form a new joint powers authority (JPA) called California Community Power.
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Southern California Edison is marketing its first securitization in 20 years to finance upgrades and costs associated with its wildfire prevention program.
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Northwestern Energy, a utility serving South Dakota, Nebraska and Montana, has appointed a new chief operating officer and CFO.
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Macquarie Capital's renewable energy development platform Savion is putting together a roughly $212 million debt package for a 200 MW solar project in Texas that has two non-utility offtakers.
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Bolivian state owned power company ENDE Corp has completed the largest solar project in the country with financing from France's AFD, the European Union and Bolivia's central bank.
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Engie and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) are studying the potential expansion of the Transportadora Associada de Gás pipeline they recently bought in Brazil.
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Brazilian power regulator Aneel has opened a public consultation on the bidding documents for two power auctions scheduled for June 25, 2021.
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Allete Clean Energy has secured a pair of offtakers for its 303 MW Caddo Wind Project in Oklahoma.
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Tampa Electric, one of Florida's largest investor-owned utilities, has appointed a successor to president and CEO Nancy Towers, who is retiring at the end of June.
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Winston & Strawn has formed a fully integrated energy & infrastructure industry group that will be led by partners Mike Blankenship, Mike Pikiel and Rich Shutran.
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American Electric Power (AEP) has found a buyer for its 48 MW Racine Plant in Ohio, following an auction process that was launched in the summer of 2020.
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has appointed Martin Spicer as its new director for Latin America and the Caribbean, following a more than 20-year-long career with the institution.
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Solar developer Solek has received environmental approval for a 10.65 MW (DC) solar project in the Chilean region of Ñuble.
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Petrobras has started the non-binding phase on the sale of stakes in two pipelines, Transportadora Brasileira Gasoduto Bolivia-Brasil (TBG) and Transportadora Sulbrasileira de Gás (TSB), following its massive divestment program.
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Apollo Global Management has increased the size of the initial public offering for its third blank check company targeting the energy transition and sustainability to $480 million.
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Missouri-based gas distributor and marketer Spire is planning to raise $150 million through an underwritten public equity offering.
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NTE Energy, traditionally a gas-fired power plant developer, is shifting toward renewables with plans to develop solar and storage projects totaling more than 5 GW over the next five years.
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Energy storage firm Highview Power, whose projects are based on liquid air technology, has closed a $70 million growth capital funding round for its pipeline of projects in the US, Latin America and Europe.
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Renewables developer sPower has announced the financing of its 400 MWh Luna Storage project in California, which was reported by PFR in January.
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Solar and storage developer Belltown Power Texas is marketing an 870 MW portfolio of projects in the Lone Star State to investors.
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A group of Chilean power producers, which had been affected by a power price freeze implemented in 2019, have reached financial close on a receivables securitization deal in Chile
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GenOn Energy is preparing to launch a project financing for a pair of dual-fuel peaking power plants in PJM Interconnection in the bank market.
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Shearman & Sterling has hired Gabriel Salinas to advise on private equity deals related to the energy sector in Latin America.
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AES Gener has closed a $306 million capital increase to finance the development of renewable energy projects in Chile and Colombia, concluding a process that began in April of last year.
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Equinor has signed a memorandum of understanding with Porto do Açu to explore the development of a solar project within the port complex over the next year.
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Brazilian company JKL Energy plans to build a 1 GW solar plant in the state of Piauí.
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Five companies have lined up to participate in an auction for the Alto Sertão III Phase B wind farm that is being sold by Renova Energia, which is in a judicial recovery plan.
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As Mexico's President Andres Manuel López Obrador lays out his vision of a counter-reform of his country’s energy industry, private investors in power and renewables are pondering whether to leave – assuming they are able to find an exit.
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A Hong Kong-based buyer has emerged in the sale of a pair of wind farms in Canada, marking the company's first renewables investment in the country.
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The Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co, also known as Masdar, has reached first close on its acquisition of a 50% stake in a 1.6 GW solar, wind and battery portfolio from EDF Renewables North America.
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Apollo Global Management has launched a third blank check company targeting the energy transition and sustainability, hot on the heels of its second such vehicle acquiring residential solar finance company Sunlight Financial.
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Riverstone Holdings' managing director and co-head of power and renewables, Carl Williams, has left the firm after nearly 13 years.
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Oil company Ecopetrol has begun exclusive negotiations to acquire the Colombian government’s majority stake in international transmission company Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA), after making a bid in January.
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The Blackstone Group has reached a restructuring deal with the creditors of its Frontera combined-cycle gas-fired plant in Texas, which sells its output across the border in Mexico.
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TransAlta's chief operating officer, John Kousinioris, who is also president of TransAlta Renewables, will take the top job and will join the board of TransAlta on April 1.
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An official has left NextEra Energy after 14 years with the company for a new role at a renewables developer based in San Francisco.
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Energy Impact Partners and Trilantic North America have agreed to buy a controlling interest in battery storage system supplier Powin Energy.
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Copenhagen-based AIP Management has agreed to invest in a pair of battery storage projects in California that Southern Power is developing on the sites of solar projects that the two firms already co-own.
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Indianapolis Power & Light Co has awarded a build-transfer agreement to Invenergy for a 195 MW solar project in Indiana.
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French oil and gas supermajor Total has solidified its presence in US renewables with the acquisition of a 2.2 GW fleet of development-stage solar projects with 600 MW of co-located battery storage assets in Texas.
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Key Capture Energy has closed a roughly $100 million financing for a portfolio of six energy storage projects in Texas, and is conducting pre-marketing for debt to finance another portfolio in the same state.
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MPC Energy Solutions has closed a partnership agreement with distributed energy service firm Enernet Global to develop assets in the Caribbean after becoming a minority shareholder in the company.
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Colombia’s Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) has launched a procurement process for a substation and related transmission lines in the department of Antioquia, the second such tender this year.
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Catalyst Power Holdings, a portfolio company of BP Energy Partners, has bought a New York-headquartered electric retailer.
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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is resuming its environmental review of the 800 MW Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts.
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NRG Energy's CFO Kirkland Andrews has stepped down from his role and is headed to Evergy where he will take up the same title.
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Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) have proliferated at a blistering pace over the past year, and market participants are virtually certain that at least one renewable energy developer will go public this way by the end of 2021.
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Boralex and the Innu communities in Québec have secured a 30-year power purchase agreement for their jointly owned Apuiat wind farm.
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Grupo Renovatio has received offers totaling 100 MW of capacity under its private power auction, the first of its kind in Colombia.
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Atlas Renewable Energy, the Latin America renewables portfolio company of private equity firm Actis, has received environmental approval to develop a 577 MW solar park in the Chilean region of Antofagasta.
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Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy has registered 88 projects to compete in the A-4 and the A-5 power auctions scheduled for June 2021.
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Vinson & Elkins has recruited six lawyers from a rival firm to boost its renewable and sustainable energy and tax practices.
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Leyline Renewable Capital has invested in an energy storage developer based in Columbus, Ohio, to support the development of up to 2 GW of projects across the US.
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St Louis-based agribusiness and food company Bunge has inked a 10-year contract to power its Fort Worth, Texas oils packaging facility with renewable energy.
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The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has cleared Avangrid's proposed $4.3 billion merger with PNM Resources.
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Citi has appointed Shikher Bisaria as its new head of Northeast power trading in Houston.
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Northern Indiana Public Service Co has reached financial close on an unusual tax equity financing for a build transfer project in Indiana, which recently came online.
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A Canadian infrastructure fund manager has launched a sale process for its 49% stake in a 30 MW wind farm in Ontario.
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Updated: IDB Invest has developed an innovative project finance loan product that includes an incentive for replacing high-emissions assets with renewables, and rolled it out to its first customer—Engie Energia Chile.
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Chile’s Verano Capital has begun the permitting process for a 9 MW solar project in the Chilean region of O’Higgins.
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Standard Solar has obtained tax equity financing for and brought online 17 community solar projects in Minnesota and Massachusetts totaling 24.6 MW.
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Ares Management Corp has announced its investment in Apex Clean Energy's 302 MW Lincoln Land wind project in Illinois, which was first reported by PFR on January 12.
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Boralex has closed its acquisition of controlling interests in an operational seven-project solar portfolio in the US for C$277 million ($215.6 million).
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Chile's National Electric Coordinator has published the final tender documents for the Kimal-Lo Aguirre transmission project, which will connect the north and the center of the country's grid.
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Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has agreed to sell its district energy business Enwave Energy to two groups of investors, one of which will take ownership of the US business and another the Canadian assets.
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A trio of senior officials have left Capital Dynamics' energy infrastructure business to join a large private equity firm, where they will be focusing on renewable energy.
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A Thai investor has taken a stake in the 972 MW gas-fired Linden Cogen facility in New Jersey, following the trend of Asian investors - previously Korean and Japanese - who have taken an interest in the project.
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Colombia's Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) has launched a tender for a substation as it seeks to strengthen the country's transmission network.
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Spanish law firm Cuatrecasas has brought in a project finance lawyer from a rival firm as part of efforts to build its franchise in Colombia.
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An international developer reached out to banks in January for proposals to finance a 100 MW wind farm in Chile.
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China’s State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) closed its acquisition of a 33% stake in the GNA I and II LNG-to-power projects in Brazil on February 1.
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Omega Engenharia has had approval to build the transmission line in Brazil connecting the 50MW Cambará biomass power plant to the São Francisco de Paula substation.
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Petrobras is restarting the bidding process for the lease of an LNG terminal in the state of Bahia after receiving no valid proposals.
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The identities of the bookrunners on Sunrun's $350 million six-year convertible bond offering have been revealed.
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JLC Infrastructure, the infrastructure investor backed by former Los Angeles Lakers star Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr, has sold down a stake in solar developer Greenskies Clean Focus.
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NextDecade Corp has abandoned the Galveston Bay site where it was developing an LNG export facility, owing to regulatory issues.
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Chilean developer Grupo Energy Lancuyen is preparing to start construction in November on a pair of small-scale solar projects totaling 18 MW.
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Caithness Energy has refinanced the holding company debt associated with a combined-cycle gas-fired plant in New York.
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IDB Invest has signed a deal to support a group of Chilean power producers affected by a power price freeze through the securitization of receivables.
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Enel Chile has closed its 128 MW Bocamina I coal-fired plant in Coronel, Biobio, three years ahead of schedule, as it vows to reduce its carbon footprint.
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Updated: Several private equity firms are understood to be considering buying a stake in a US natural gas pipeline and storage company that was recently put up for sale.
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Iberdrola’s Neoenergia is planning to issue R$2 billion ($369 million) in debentures in the Brazilian capital markets to finance its acquisition of Companhia Energetica de Brasilia Distribuição, having won an auction to privatize the distribution company last year.
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Recently, it seems that every day brings blank check company news, whether it’s an initial public offering or a merger. But could a privately held renewable energy project developer go public this way by the end of the year?
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Rockland Capital has appointed a financial adviser for the sale of a merchant gas-fired peaker plant in Texas.
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Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC Private Limited has agreed to pay $2.05 billion to acquire a 19.9% stake in Duke Energy Indiana.
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Norwegian and British oil multinationals Equinor and BP have sealed their previously announced strategic offshore wind partnership, as part of which BP paid $1.1 billion for a 50% non-operating stake in Equinor's Empire Wind and Beacon Wind projects off the coasts of New York and Massachusetts.
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IDB Invest has inked a debt package with the Salvadorian subsidiary of Colombia’s Banco Davivienda to finance green projects, specifically renewable energy assets.
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French developer Cap Vert Energie is adding a sixth solar project to its PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) development pipeline in Chile as it becomes a major player in the country's small-scale market.
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Lightsource BP has signed a virtual power purchase agreement with Verizon Communications for the output of a solar project in Indiana.
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Starwood Infrastructure Finance's former head of syndications and capital markets has started in a new role at a project finance lender in New York.
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Renewables developer sPower has obtained tax equity financing for North Peak, which is a portfolio of four solar projects located partly in its home state of Utah and partly in California.
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BlackRock has found a buyer for Hearthstone Utilities, a holding company through which it owns and operates six local natural gas distribution companies in five US states.
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InterEnergy Group’s recent refinancing of two renewable energy projects in Panama – one of which is named for a papal encyclical – was the first issuance of green bonds from the private sector in Central America. Investors gave the deal their full blessing, writes Carmen Arroyo.
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Spain's Grupo Ibereólica has begun the permitting process for a combined wind and solar project totaling 1,171 MW in the Chilean region of Antofagasta, adding to its development pipeline in the country.
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German sponsor Blue Elephant Energy and Chilean developer oEnergy have signed a joint venture agreement to develop a small-scale solar portfolio in Chile.
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Danish renewables developer European Energy has secured a loan to build a 94 MW wind project in Brazil.
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The Inter-American Development Bank has promoted Gustavo De Rosa to vice president for finance and administration after almost ten years at the DFI.
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Global Infrastructure Partners has closed its sale of Competitive Power Ventures to a consortium of Israeli investors.
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German developer PNE has acquired four solar projects in the US and expanded its wind and solar development team in the country.
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EDF Renewables North America has bought the remaining stake in New York-based distributed solar developer EnterSolar, having initially acquired half of the company two years ago.
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Chilean developer Orion Power has begun the permitting process for a small-scale solar asset as it builds its PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) project pipeline.
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The Dominican Republic is preparing to announce procurement processes for two 700 MW power plants in the country following a shift in policy away from state-ownership.
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Oya Solar has closed development and construction financing for about 350 MW to 400 MW (DC) of community solar projects across New York state.
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Colombia's Ecopetrol has presented a non-binding offer to purchase the state's majority stake in Latin American transmission company Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA).
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Ecuador’s law firm Pérez Bustamante & Ponce (PBP) has added Sebastian Cortez as a new partner to the firm, focused on energy and natural resources, infrastructure, projects, corporate law and environmental issues.
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Solar and energy storage developer Intersect Power has secured more than $600 million in corporate equity and debt as it looks to expand into green hydrogen.
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Sunrun has priced a $350 million six-year convertible bond that it offered to investors just as it revealed preliminary fourth quarter results.
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Lightsource bp has closed a $380 million debt package, tax equity and mobilized construction for 316 MW of solar projects in Texas.
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BlackRock Real Assets' small-scale solar development platform Distributed Solar Development has obtained a $300 million debt facility.
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The development finance institution IDB Invest has promoted a staffer to oversee energy and infrastructure investments in the Andean region.
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Wilson Ferreira Junior is to lead BR Distribuidora after announcing over the weekend that he is resigning as chief executive of Eletrobras.
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Colombia's Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) has launched a tender for the country's first battery storage system.
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Matrix Renewables, a portfolio company of private equity company TPG, has acquired a 154 MW (DC) small-scale solar portfolio in Chile as it works to finance a pipeline of solar projects in Colombia.
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Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem has inked a wind power purchase agreement with developer Casa dos Ventos.
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Colombia’s Empresa Colombiana de Petróleos (Ecopetrol) has revealed plans for six solar projects in the country as it aims to grow its fleet to 400 MW by 2023.
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Wilson Ferreira Jr, CEO of Eletrobras, has announced that he is leaving the company for “personal reasons."
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Developer Delaware River Solar has found a buyer for a 20 MW solar project in New York state with a 20-year renewable energy credit contract, following an auction process.
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LNG project developer NextDecade Corp has named Brent Wahl as its new CFO, effective February 1.
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Residential solar financier Sunlight Financial has agreed to go public via a merger with Apollo Global Management's latest energy transition and sustainability-focused blank check company, Spartan Acquisition Corp II.
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A buyer has emerged for First Solar's development platform, following a competitive auction process.
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Canadian developer Potentia Renewables refinanced a two-phase solar project in the Dominican Republic toward the end of last year with debt from a local fund manager.
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The blank check company launched by bond manager Pacific Investment Management Co (PIMCO) last year with former NRG Energy CEO David Crane at the helm has selected LS Power's electric vehicle charging business as its target.
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Greenbacker Capital Management has added to the senior capital raising and origination team of its recently established middle-market fund.
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NRG Energy is raising debt and equity for for a merchant gas-fired project in Queens, New York, that will replace an existing asset the company owns on the site.
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The years-long stampede of international capital into the US renewable energy sector has continued unabated in the first few weeks of 2021, as latecomers from around the world have finally got in on the action.
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The Carlyle Group has hired an official who previously worked in project finance and capital markets at Clearway Energy Group to its renewables and sustainable energy team.
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Energy Capital Partners has filed a prospectus for the initial public offering of a blank check company called ECP Environmental Growth Opportunities Corp.
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New Energy Solar has struck a deal to sell a 50% stake in its 154 MW Mount Signal 2 project in California to an affiliated fund after a previous deal with a third party fell through.
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Hudson Sustainable Group has refinanced an 84.3 MW (DC) solar portfolio in Uruguay with a private placement that was bought by a single investor.
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Spanish solar developer Solarpack Corporación Tecnológica has closed the sale of 12.39% of the company’s shares through an accelerated bookbuild.
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Peru's Ministry of Mines and Energy has announced that the country expects to invest $6.025 billion in transmission lines and generation assets over the next nine years.
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Engie has resumed construction work on the Gralha Azul transmission system in the Brazilian state of Paraná, after progress was halted by a dispute over environmental permits last year.
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Swell Energy's plan to deploy virtual power plants on three Hawaiian islands has received the green light from the state's Public Utilities Commission.
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Three of FirstEnergy Corp's Pennsylvania utilities have launched a request for proposals (RFP) for solar energy credits.
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The advisers have been revealed on Macquarie's Green Investment Group's acquisition of a stake in Californian utility-scale energy storage developer esVolta.
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Chile's National Federation of Power Co-ops has appointed Patricio Molina as its new general manager.
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Colombian power producer Isagén has acquired two solar projects totaling 52.4 MW (DC) from China's Trina Solar.
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London-based fund manager NextEnergy Capital has acquired a portfolio of small-scale solar projects totaling 42.2 MW in Chile from Grenergy Renovables.
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Engie Brazil has signed an agreement with Siemens Gamesa for the supply of wind turbines to the R$2.2 billion ($414 million) Santo Agostinho wind complex in the state of Rio Grande do Norte.
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The Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul has postponed the privatization of its power distribution company.
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Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual has announced an auction to buy electric power in the country’s free market, set for January 29, 2021
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Goldman Sachs is arranging a receivables securitization for a group of Chilean power producers that have been affected by a power price freeze that was implemented in 2019.
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Dominion Energy has bought a 150 MW solar project in Ohio from Invenergy.
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Spain’s Naturgy Energy Group has bought a a portfolio of US solar assets developed by Candela Renewables from Macquarie.
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British renewables investor Greencoat Capital is making its first investment in US renewables with the acquisition of a stake in a portfolio of Texas wind farms.
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EDP Renewables has signed a deal to acquire a majority stake in C2 Energy Capital’s US distributed solar platform, C2 Omega.
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A Greenbacker Capital Management fund that was created last year has invested in an owner-operator of hydro power plants in New York state.
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Alternative asset manager Power Sustainable Capital has launched a $1 billion renewable energy investment platform targeting the US and Canada.
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Morgan Stanley has appointed a new head of North American power and gas trading as well as two regional heads of power origination.
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Macquarie’s Green Investment Group has agreed to take a stake in Californian utility-scale energy storage developer esVolta.
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Latham & Watkins has hired two senior attorneys from Clifford Chance to lead its Latin American energy and infrastructure division out of New York.
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AES Gener, the Chilean subsidiary of AES Corp, is adding a 114 MW wind farm to its development pipeline as part of its 1.6 GW portfolio of renewable assets in Colombia and Chile.
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Norwegian conglomerate Aker has agreed to purchase a controlling stake in Irish developer Mainstream Renewable Power, which is working on a 1.3 GW renewable portfolio in Chile.
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Canada Infrastructure Bank and Oneida Energy Storage have signed a memorandum of understanding for the largest project of its kind in Canada - a 250 MW/1000 MWh energy storage facility in southwestern Ontario.
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I Squared Capital has struck a $961 million deal to take listed independent power producer Atlantic Power Corp private.
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Ameren Missouri has closed the acquisition of its second wind farm, the 300 MW Atchison Renewable Energy Center in northwest Missouri, pursuant to a build-transfer deal with Invenergy.
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Engie has begun the permitting process for a 353.4 MW wind farm in the Chilean region of Antofagasta.
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Pine Gate Renewables has closed financing for a 12-project portfolio of solar and solar-plus-storage sites in North Carolina.
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PepsiCo has selected two wind projects being developed by Ørsted to power its operations in the US.
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French oil giant Total has signed a 50:50 joint venture agreement with Hanwha Group-owned solar and energy storage developer 174 Power Global to develop a 1.6 GW portfolio in the US.
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Macquarie Capital has hired a project finance and development official who previously oversaw Latin American energy investments at Sempra Energy in New York.
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Developers and investors are beginning to build portfolios of renewables in the Caribbean and Central America, a region that is slowly diversifying its energy mix despite lacking investment-grade ratings.
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As battery energy storage begins to grow out of its niche and emerge into the project finance mainstream, several recently completed and live deals point to the road ahead – and the value of creditworthy counterparties.
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Developer oEnergy has begun the permitting process for a small-scale solar asset in the Chilean region of O'Higgins, bringing its development pipeline up to 56.5 MW.
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Renewable energy riders are going through the regulatory process for an 8 MW solar array being developed by NextEra Energy Resources in Madison, Wisconsin.
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An independent power producer in Texas is close to selecting arrangers for a potential financing of its merchant generation portfolio.
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With its Spotsylvania Solar Energy Center in Virginia, developer sPower offered the project finance market something it hadn’t seen before. But while the market responded positively to the project, the road to the finish line was far from smooth.
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AES Brasil has signed a purchase agreement with Cubico Sustainable Investments’ subsidiary in Brazil for two wind farms totaling 158.5 MW.
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AES Brasil has signed a memorandum of understanding with ferroalloys company Companhia de Ferro Ligas da Bahia-Ferbasa for a power purchase agreement.
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Morgan Stanley Energy Partners (MSEP) has invested in SolMicroGrid, a developer and operator of microgrid systems for commercial and industrial customers in North America.
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Agilitas Energy is building its pipeline of community solar projects in Massachusetts and New York, after selling a portfolio of small-scale solar assets to CarVal Investors late last year.
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The state of New York has chosen two projects sponsored by Equinor and its joint-venture partner BP in its latest offshore wind tender.
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Excelsior Energy Capital has closed its first fund, Excelsior Renewable Energy Investment Fund I, with capital commitments of $504 million.
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A Boston-based investment holding company that specializes in financial services companies has taken a stake in US renewable energy investor Greenbacker Group.
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Recurrent Energy has closed the sale of its Slate solar-plus-storage project in California to Goldman Sachs Renewable Power after slotting tax equity into place.
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Novatus Energy and Southwest Generation, two portfolio companies of JP Morgan Asset Management's infrastructure investment funds, have merged to become a combined renewable energy and gas-fired power platform.
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Strata Solar has sealed a $69 million debt package for a portfolio of contracted solar assets in North Carolina.
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New Fortress Energy is increasing its presence in the Brazilian LNG, natural gas and power market with a raft of acquisition agreements in the country.
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Invenergy has closed construction financing for the first phase of its 1,310 MW Samson Solar Energy Center in northeast Texas.
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Norway's Statkraft has placed an order with Nordex for a 518.7 MW wind project in Brazil, the sponsor's largest wind project in South America.
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Nordex has selected a new CFO to replace the incumbent Christoph Burkhard, who had held the position since October of 2016.
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Chile’s Transelec is seeking regulatory approval for a transmission project in the Antofagasta region that it was awarded in a tender in 2019.
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Harrison Street has bought five commercial, industrial and community solar portfolios in California and Minnesota following a nearly two year-long sale process.
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Invenergy sealed loans at the end of last year for the three large wind farms it is preparing to build in Oklahoma for American Electric Power utility companies.
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Evergy's CFO Tony Somma is retiring after 27 years with the company and its predecessor, Westar Energy.
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Axium Infrastructure has bought a 49% stake in Cordelio Power's 396 MW renewables portfolio in southwestern Ontario.
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Richard Grosdidier – whose solar finance career has included stints at NextEra Energy, NRG Energy, Innogy Renewables and Sunfinity Renewables – has turned to microgrids for his next challenge.
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Canada's Polaris Infrastructure has won an extension of the exclusivity period in its negotiations to acquire a 10 MW hydro project in Panama from Navitas Holdings.
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Brookfield Asset Management has agreed to buy the 845 MW Shepherds Flat Wind Farm in Oregon from Caithness Energy.
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Chicago-based investment bank Marathon Capital has established an outpost in Europe for the first time with a senior hire from Moelis & Co in London.
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Ares Management Corp has financed a contracted wind farm in Illinois that it acquired from a developer last year.
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Enel Green Power's Chilean subsidiary has begun the permitting process for a 200 MW (DC) solar asset in the country, bringing its under-development portfolio up to 798 MW.
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Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy has announced further details on the country’s next two power auctions, which will be held this year.
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Spain’s Acciona signed an energy supply agreement with packaging company Winpack Group for its Chilean operations last year.
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South Korea's SK Group has agreed to invest $1.5 billion in hydrogen fuel cell manufacturer Plug Power.
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Fifth Third Bank has recently provided a series of construction debt and tax equity commitments for community solar and distributed generation portfolios across six US states.
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A developer has put a 1.05 GW solar-plus-storage platform on the auction block.
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Texas utility CenterPoint Energy has added former Calpine Corp and Talen Energy treasurer Stacey Peterson and investment banker Philip Holder to its senior finance team.
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PFR can reveal the identities of additional financial and legal advisers on The Blackstone Group's sale of a 50% stake in Onyx Renewable Partners and a 175 MW portfolio of commercial and industrial solar assets to SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust.
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Spain’s Grenergy Renovables has reached financial close on a debt package to fund a 130 MW solar portfolio in Chile.
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German asset manager MPC Capital has launched a renewable energy platform called MPC Energy Solutions, with capital raised through an equity placement.
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InterEnergy Group has acquired an operational wind farm and three renewable energy projects that are under development in the Dominican Republic.
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Brazil’s law firm Cescon Barrieu has appointed six partners located in its São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte offices, with one dedicated to the energy sector.
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Brazil's Cemig has announced its intention to sell all the shares it holds in the Brazilian power generator and distributor Light at the same time as Light issues new shares through a capital raise.
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Three renewable energy developers signed loans toward the end of last year to fund pre-construction development activity, with most of the debt coming from non-bank lenders.
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In its latest round of battery storage procurement, Pacific Gas and Electric Co has awarded resource adequacy contracts to six lithium-ion projects in California totaling 387 MW.
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Details have emerged on PSEG Power's proposed sale of its 468 MW (DC) Solar Source portfolio.
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A sponsor is auctioning off a stake in a 100 MW/400 MWh standalone battery storage asset in California that it acquired last year.
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US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette has announced that John Hairston will stay on as administrator and CEO of the Bonneville Power Administration, a position he has held on an acting basis since September 2020.
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AES Corp has sealed a power purchase agreement for a project in Hawaii that combines solar generation with pumped storage hydro.
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Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI) has tweaked the roles of several of its senior officials as former CFO Brandan Herron transitions to an advisory role.
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Lightsource BP is in the process of financing a solar project in Texas on the basis of a proxy generation power purchase agreement.
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A developer headquartered in France is seeking equity partners to take a stake in a solar project that has been selected to replace the output of the San Juan Generating Station coal-fired plant in New Mexico.
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Trinergy, the Chilean subsidiary of Swiss-German company Tritec-Intervento, is developing a 9 MW solar project in the country.
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Chilean investment firm Rockville Capital has raised $147 million to acquire 28 small-scale solar projects in the country.
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Petrobras has signed a sale agreement for its stake in three wind farms with V2I Transmissão de Energia Elétrica, an investment vehicle of Vinci Infraestrutura, part of the asset manager Vinci Partners.
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Eletronorte, a subsidiary of Brazil's Eletrobras, has issued a request for proposals for a consultancy to help the company evaluate the sale of its stake in Norte Brasil Transmissora de Energia (NBTE).
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Apex Clean Energy has tripled the size of a letter of credit facility provided by Helaba to cover projects development costs.
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Solar and energy storage developer Origis Energy has completed a management buy-out of its non-operational shareholders.
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Duke Energy has named Jack Sullivan vice president of investor relations, succeeding Bryan Buckler, who recently left the company for another career opportunity.
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Allete Clean Energy has secured tax equity financing totaling $350 million for a pair of recently completed wind projects in two separate transactions.
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Canada's Distributed Power Partners has begun the permitting process for a small-scale solar project in Chile.
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Recurrent Energy has completed the sale of its 144 MW Pflugerville Solar project in Texas to Duke Energy Renewables.
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Colombia's Grupo Energia Bogota has expressed an interest in buying a stake in Interconexión Electrica (ISA) that is currently owned by the state.
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Mexico's state-owned Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) has said it will reduce the amount of renewable power injected into the grid after blaming intermittent generation sources for an outage on December 28.
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Renewable energy advisory firm TortoiseEcofin has floated its first open-ended fund on the London stock exchange – Ecofin US Renewables Infrastructure Trust.
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Brazilian solar developer Sol do Sertão Holding has closed a R$100 million ($19.2 million) bank loan to finance its solar SPVs located in the state of Bahia.
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Southwestern Energy Co's executive vice president and CFO Julian Bott passed away on January 3. He was 57.
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Starwood Energy Group Global has recruited Jeffrey Levy, the former general counsel of Atlantic Power Corp, as deputy general counsel and managing director.
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BlackRock Real Assets-owned Distributed Solar Development has bought a pair of community solar projects in New York totaling 10 MW.
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The Carlyle Group has committed to invest $374 million in Amp Solar Group, also known as Amp Energy, a Canadian renewables developer that is active around the world.
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FirstEnergy Corp has appointed long-time PG&E Corp general counsel Hyun Park as its new senior vice president and chief legal officer, effective January 11.
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Spanish law firm Cuatrecasas, pursuing growth in Latin America, has hired nine partners in Chile, Mexico, and Colombia, three of whom will work on deals in the energy sector.
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Chile's National Electric Coordinator (NEC) has launched tenders for 59 small transmission projects that expand existing substations and transmission lines in the country.
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Enel Green Power has requested permission to enlarge the scope of a solar project in Chile and add a battery storage unit.
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