Industry Groups / Associations
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Zona Energía's private auction in Chile will benefit from a reform that bans Chile's power distribution companies from selling power to large consumers known as clientes libres or free clients.
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Pacific Hydro, a renewable energy company with assets in Australia, Chile and Brazil, is looking to refinance corporate debt with a roughly $400 million loan.
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Blackstone company Fisterra Energy is pursuing the refinancing of a combined-cycle gas-fired plant in Mexico, which was meant to start operating in December of last year.
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IDB Invest is preparing to lend $1.1 billion to the Chilean power sector, which has been struggling to make ends meet after the implementation of new regulatory measures in the past six months.
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Colombia’s Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) has delayed the procurement process for a transmission line in the country’s Caribbean region for the second time in a month.
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An Argentinian power industry association has warned that the sector could face bankruptcies as the government implements the pesification of power contracts and denies inflation adjustments to struggling generators.
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Spanish renewables developer Acciona has brought in one financial investor and is looking for another to jointly acquire KKR & Co.'s minority stake in its international generation subsidiary, Acciona Energía Internacional.
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A group of renewable energy companies have written to the Chilean government to warn it that recent policy changes in response to protests and the Covid-19 pandemic threaten to stifle international investment in the sector.
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Colombia's Renewable Energy Association (SER) has requested an extension in the construction timelines of solar and wind parks awarded contracts during Colombia's renewable auction last fall.
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Vienna-headquartered AustrianSolar is moving forward with the development of a 141 MW solar project in Chile.
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Ecuador's state-owned Ecuador Electric Corporation (CELEC) has delayed the tender for a 14.8 MW (DC) solar project with a battery storage unit on the Galapagos islands.
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Atlas Renewable Energy, the Latin American renewables portfolio company of private equity firm Actis, is plotting the development of an 854 MW solar park in Chile.
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Atlas Renewable Energy financed a pair of solar projects in Chile in the U.S. private placement market at the beginning of March, skillfully winning over a skeptical investor community that lacked positive experiences of financing renewables in the country.
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Developers in Mexico have been left waiting for the government to release its private investment plan for energy projects following a delay by the administration.
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Colombia’s Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA) has inked an agreement to acquire a Peruvian transmission company from I Squared Capital.
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Chilean developer Biwo Renewables is plotting the development of a pair of wind farms in the country.
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As the Colombian government prepares to sell Electricaribe back into private ownership, a municipality within its service territory is attempting to take matters into its own hands.
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Spain's Acciona has inked a power purchase agreement with salt producer K+S Chile—its seventh contract with a corporate offtaker in the country.
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Seven companies have presented bids for a transmission project in a procurement process arranged by Panama's state-owned transmission company Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica (Etesa).
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Austrian solar developer Clean Capital Energy (CCE) is developing an 86 MW project in Chile, the second of the four projects the company is eying in the country.
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Mike Mendelsohn, senior director of capital markets and project finance at the Solar Energy Industry Association, has departed the trade organization.
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Delegates at the Euromoney Seminars 12th Annual Latin American Energy & Infrastructure Finance Forum in Miami Beach are keeping at least one eye on Latin America’s colorful political landscape, as a year of national elections and unfolding corruption probes promises to have a bearing on project financings and M&A deals.
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The first person to walk to both the North and South poles is returning to the Antarctic, this time with his progeny—and some solar panels—in tow.
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Cheap debt and the ticking clock strapped to federal tax credits could well bolster wind project development over the next year, said financiers at the American Wind Energy Association’s Wind Energy Finance & Investment Conference 2017 on Oct. 25 and 26.
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Some of the power finance world’s fresher faces gathered at CohnReznick Capital’s offices in New York’s Credit Lyonnais Building on Oct. 12 for Juniors in Energy Finance's inaugural “30 Under 30” presentation event.
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The Brazilian Development Bank has tinkered with the way it accredits solar systems and modules at a national level, in a move that bank and commercial bankers say should prompt more funding flow to smaller renewables companies.
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Solar and Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) experts at the IMN Green Investing Conference on Thursday noted that both markets will see more participation as issuance accelerates and the sectors become more sophisticated.
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Paige Wisdom, the former chief enterprise risk officer at Freddie Mac, has joined residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) lender Renovate America as cfo.
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Hannon Armstrong has issued an $84 million green debt private placement to finance solar and energy efficiency projects in an offering arranged by BlackRock.
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Dayton Power & Light, a utility owned by AES Corp., has committed to sell three coal projects, shutter two others and buy or develop at least 300 MW of wind and solar generation in a settlement with several Ohio entities in relation to its rate case before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in power project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in power project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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The future of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Power Plan and tax credits for renewable generation are all up in the air following Donald Trump's presidential win in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
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Target has knocked Walmart off its perch atop the Solar Energy Industries Association’s ranking of commercial and industrial solar installers, published in the association's annual “Solar Means Business” report.
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Panelists discussed the increasing ownership of wind projects directly by utility companies at the AWEA Wind Energy Finance and Investment Conference at the Westin New York at Times Square on Oct. 5.
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Tax equity investors are paying close attention to a growing risk for wind projects with non-traditional offtake agreements. At issue is the difference between the price of power at the point of injection and the price where the offtake contract is settled.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in power project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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GE Energy Financial Services is selling a portion of its 49% stake in the 750 MW Towantic combined-cycle gas-fired project in Oxford, Conn., to an infrastructure fund.
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SolarCity is internally restructuring and cutting operational costs, after it revised its growth expectations downward in its second quarter earnings call last week.
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The Rocky Mountain Institute has partnered with a local community organization in upstate New York to issue a request for proposals for at least 16 MW from community solar projects in and around Rochester.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in power project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in power project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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The trend toward commercial bank financing of solar projects in Chile on a merchant basis may have stalled, as some projects financed in recent years without power purchase agreements enter restructuring.
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Bats are observed more frequently at wind turbines on moonlit nights, looping, diving, hovering and chasing each other. They also visit wind farms more often in low wind speed conditions, according to the latest scientific research.
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Over 4 GW of coal-fired generation in Texas will be retired under the Clean Power Plan, roughly one-quarter of the states’ coal capacity, according to a report published by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas on Friday.
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The causes and consequences of the recent yield company turmoil, the impact of the Clean Power Plan and hopes to resurrect the production tax credit were all topics of conversation at the American Wind Energy Association Wind Energy Finance and Investment Seminar in at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.
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On Sept. 16, PJM market participants and industry observers from further afield gathered for the PJM Market Summit to discuss the introduction of new capacity performance rules and the evolution of demand response products.
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MidAmerican Energy is acquiring a 250 MW wind project in Iowa from Invenergy.
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The Idaho Public Utilities Commission’s decision to reduce the length of so-called PURPA contracts by 90% will halt renewables development in the region, warns the Solar Energy Industries Association.
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In the second instalment of this feature, Benjamin Israel, a partner at Kaplan, Kirsch & Rockwell, explores the political and market implications of the U.S. Court of Appeals' decision in the case of the Energy & Environment Legal Institute v. Joshua Epel et al.
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Obama has set the first ever federal limits on U.S. power plant carbon emissions in a move that is expected to lead to a deluge of renewables projects.
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Capital Power is planning to issue roughly C$300 million in a senior notes to refinance an existing bond maturing in December 2015, and term out a portion of its drawn credit lines in a volatile Canadian debt market.
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Organización Soriana, which was able to secure a grandfather permit before Mexico's new energy reforms kicked in, has raised $260 million to construct a pair of wind farms totalling 99 MW in Tamaulipas.
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Wind is being used to power the 11-day NCAA Men's College World Series tournament, which begins in Omaha, Neb. on June 13.
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A $900 million debt, which Moxie Energy is hoping to raise, is the latest among several financings that industry observers say areunlikely to close until the delayed PJM capacity auction for delivery year 2018-2019 takes place.
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A SCANA subsidiary is prepping for an RFP aimed at contracting at least 50% of 84 MW in planned solar capacity from utility-scale facilities in South Carolina.
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This week's Industry Current is written by Benjamin L. Israel, a Washington, D.C.-based partner at Kaplan, Kirsch & Rockwell. This feature provides context for what the Tesla Powerwall means for retail consumers and wholesale generation, transmission and distribution.
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Keith Martin, partner at Chadbourne & Parke expounds the framework laid out by the IRS for companies aiming to operate as master limited partnerships.
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Atlantic Power is considering upsizing its seven-year $600 million term loan B to pay down a portion of roughly $316 million in outstanding convertible debentures.
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The San Mateo, Calif.-based pioneer of asset-backed rooftop solar securities continues exploring new financial structures under its latest hire, Marco Krapels, senior v.p. of structured finance and strategy. In the first instalment of this PFR exclusive, Krapels spoke to Senior Reporter Olivia Feld about SolarCity’s expansion plans and asset class growth.
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Solar developer Cypress Creek Renewables has tapped Allan Riska, formerly senior manager in project finance at SunEdison, as director of its project finance group.
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Greg Leveto, formerly a v.p. of hard asset trading at Goldman Sachs, is joining Deutsche Bank AG as a director in the transportation, infrastructure and energy finance group.
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This week’s Industry Current is written by Chadbourne & Parke attorneys David Jiménez Romaro and Javier Félix Muñoz from Mexico City, and Raquel Bierzwinsky from New York. The authors examine the evolving regulatory framework for geothermal exploration and production in Mexico.
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Developers and financiers are actively planning securitizations for portfolios of solar installations, according to panelists at the Information Management Network’s 3rd Annual Sunshine Backed Bonds conference in New York on April 30 and May 1.
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Alliant Energy Corporate Services is inviting bids to contract up to 200 MW of wind projects across Iowa.
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Western Energy Partners is looking to raise debt for its 750 MW Clean Path project near Waterflow, N.M. after it secures a long-term offtake contract.
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With about 800 MW of wind trades grabbing the spotlight this week, this week has seen a spate of M&A activities in the wind space.
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This week’s Industry Current is written by Jake Seligman, associate at Chadbourne & Parke in Washington, D.C. Seligman evaluates the opportunities for municipalities to tap into tax-exempt lease purchases for financing the purchase of U.S. distributed solar projects.
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BlackRock is taking a 90% stake in a pair of wind farms totaling 80 MW in Iowa from wind developer RPM Access.
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More shops are circling yieldco IPOs even as investor appetite for yieldco paper grows against the backdrop of an industry that is moving toward consolidation.
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Hydro-Québec has issued a request for proposals for 500 MW of capacity generation in Québec.
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EDP Renewables has sold a 35.9% stake in a portfolio of wind assets totaling 1,100 MW in the U.S. to a consortium led by Fiera Axium Infrastructure.
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I Squared Capital has clinched a $3 billion fund focused on investments in infrastructure, including power and utilities.
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Vivid snapshots of the Platts 30th Annual Global Power Markets conference from our reporter's desk.
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An Argo Infrastructure Partners subsidiary has bought the Cross Sound Cable from an affiliate of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners.
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Global giants Wal-Mart, Procter & Gamble and General Motors have racked up offtake contracts totaling 140 MW of wind and biomass generation across the Americas.
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Project financiers at Platts’ 30th Annual Global Power Markets are competing for business as lenders continue to surge into power and energy deals in the Americas.
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A pair of PPL Corp. affiliates is in talks with banks to finalize book runners for an issuance of up to $1.05 billion in senior secured first mortgage bonds.
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Transactions backing solar storage could become mainstream in the coming years, according to panelists at Platts' 30th Annual Global Power Markets conference in Las Vegas on April 13.
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LNG export facilities in the U.S. and gas pipeline projects in Mexico will help balance a growing surplus of natural gas in North America, Bentek Energy presenters noted at Platts' 30th Annual Global Power Markets conference in Las Vegas on April 13.
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Fortis is selling its interests in a portfolio of hydro projects in New York to an affiliate of the City of Ottawa.
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This week’s Industry Current is written by David Burton, partner, and Richard Page, associate at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in New York. Burton and Page examine the effects of the New York State budget on solar tax incentives.
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AES Corp. has secured a fixed coupon of 5.5% to refinance its existing debt through $575 million in senior unsecured notes.
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Northwestern Mutual is selling stakes in a 400 MW wind portfolio to an affiliate jointly owned by JPMorgan Capital Corp. and a Hannon Armstrong subsidiary.
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GE Energy Financial Services and Enel Green Power North America are launching yield company EGPNA Renewable Energy Partners.
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Pricing talk has emerged on the $275 million term loan package backing Longview Power, launched by Morgan Stanley and KKR Capital Management last week.
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Duke Energy Progress is buying back 700 MW nuclear and coal-fired stakes from the North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency in exchange for a wholesale contract from the agency.
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Greenleaf Power is acquiring Leidos’ 37.5 MW Plainfield Renewable Energy biomass project in Plainfield, Conn.
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Puerto Rico-based Aspenall Energies has bought the 21 MW Grant County wind project in Minnesota from Olympus Power.
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Eversource Energy is looking to sell roughly 1 GW of hydro and thermal plants in New Hampshire through an auction.
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