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Royal Bank of Scotland has added four leads for the estimated $750 million, 144A private placement rounding out a $3.45 billion refinancing supporting the 226-mile, two billion cubic feet per day Dolphin pipeline.

Econcern is looking for an equity partner for its 330 MW Belwind offshore wind farm in development 29 miles off the coast of Oostende, Belgium, after an undisclosed shareholder has stepped out.

--Harry Saunders, president of Castle & Cooke's Hawaii operations, on early financing talks with banks about a planned wind project.

BNP Paribas and Citigroup were mandated to lead financing for Allegheny Energy's $820 million, 180-mile Trans-Allegheny Interstate Line.

BrightSource Energy has hired Natalie Schaefer as v.p. of project and structure finance in Oakland, Calif., as the company works toward financing and building a 2.6 GW solar pipeline over the next eight years.

Grupo Santander has joined the $1.1 billion club financing backing Astoria Energy’s second 500 MW natural gas fired plant in Astoria, Queens. The Spanish bank committed $75 million, according to a bank official. The project, which has a 20-year PPA from the New York Power Authority, is expected to begin operating in 2011.

Econcern is looking for an equity partner for its 330 MW Belwind offshore wind farm in development 29 miles off the coast of Oostende, Belgium, after an undisclosed shareholder has stepped out.

NRG Energy decided to issue $700 million in bonds this week as the debt capital markets showed signs of improvement. “We have been in a ready, wait-and-hold position,” says Bob Flexon, executive v.p. and cfo in Princeton, N.J. “April and May were good months for the high-yield market. We wanted to wait and get on the other side of [General Motors],” he explains on the timing of the issue. The 10-year senior notes priced at 8.5% priced yesterday. The deal is expected to close Friday.

Jeff Wood, a senior v.p. of Noble Environmental Power, is joining PowerBridge, the parent company of Hudson Power Ventures and Neptune Power Ventures, as senior v.p. “I’ve had my eye on him for a long time. It just took me a while to convince him. It was the right set of circumstances at the right time,” says Ed Stern, ceo in Fairfield, Conn.

Barclays Capital is arranging a refinancing for two Calpine operated natural-gas fired power plants totaling 1.3 GW and wholly-owned by CIT. Barclays and CIT launched the $275 million term B loan this morning to a group of mutual funds, hedge funds and insurance companies via a conference call. The existing three-year term debt on the plants matures next month and needs to be refinanced. Pricing on the deal is LIBOR plus 450 bps and it has a five-year tenor. Commitments are requested by June 15. The deal will close June 18.