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Costa Rican regional power cooperative Coopelesca has tapped boutique financial advisor BlueSky Capital Strategies to arrange some $350 million of project construction and feasibility studies.

Lincoln Bleveans, chief development officer at Tyr Energy, has resigned to start an energy consulting firm. Bleveans, who joined in May last year, says he is simply ready to move on. “I’m eager to get out on my own and be the person where the buck stops.”

Barclays Capital and Goldman Sachs have brought together a five- to six-lender syndicate in the $200 million recapitalization of two former Calpine plants in New England that is set to close early next month.

Conergy has submitted an application to build a solar facility on the Fresh Kills landfill site on Staten Island, N.Y.

LS Power and Dynegy are looking to arrange financing for their $400 million 400 MW Bridgeport II gas-fired plant in Bridgeport, Conn., before year-end. “This financing should be doable in the current difficult market given the contract structure,” says Joe Esteves, cfo in New York, noting that the project’s 30-year PPA with United Illuminating will appeal to lenders. Deal trackers note that the sponsors are taking indicative bids this Friday for what will likely be a club financing, though Esteves declined to address that point.

Eagle Rock Energy Partners is planning to fund its agreed upon $236 million acquisition of Millennium Midstream Partners with a revolver and an equity issue.

Project finance bankers are grappling with how to price and structure new deals given the events that have roiled the U.S. financial scene.

The energy team formerly employed by AllCapital, a unit of Australia's Allco Financial, has founded the New York-based Abatis Capital to invest in energy in North America. “Allco had made a strategic decision to exit the power business,” says Stephen Daniel, senior partner and coo of Abatis. “Having effectively built a team that was unexpectedly available, we see terrific opportunities in the North American energy sector.” Last spring, Allco opted to sell its 4 GW global wind portfolio and focus on aviation, shipping, rail and real estate (PFR, 3/14).

Norcross, Ga.-based Biomass Gas & Electric is in preliminary talks with lenders to finance its first two projects for a combined $330-350 million.

Costa Rican regional power cooperative Coopelesca has tapped boutique financial advisor BlueSky Capital Strategies to arrange some $350 million of project construction and feasibility studies.