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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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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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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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As Latin America's power sector grapples with the consequences of the pandemic, PFR has brought together a diverse panel to share their perspectives on how the market will move forward.
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Longview Power – the owner of a 700 MW coal-fired plant in West Virginia – emerged from its most recent prepackaged Chapter 11 restructuring on July 31.
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Javier Mateache Sacristán, the co-founder and U.S. CEO of Elawan Energy (formerly Gestamp Wind), passed away on June 25, following the recurrence of a previously treated cancer, at the age of 53.
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With single-digit reserve margin forecasts drawing solar, battery and peaker developers to Texas in droves, PFR reporter Shravan Bhat visited Houston last week to catch up with the Ercot community and assess the market for power price hedges.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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The U.S. Senate has confirmed Neil Chatterjee and Robert F. Powelson to serve on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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A key fixture in the power finance calendar, Infocast's annual Projects & Money conference at Harrah's New Orleans drew the great and the good of the industry. Managing editor Olivia Feld attended.
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GE Capital's Homer City coal-fired project in Indiana County, Pa., has filed for a pre-packaged restructuring under Chapter 11, as expected.
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Renewables projects in the U.S. sealed almost 1 GW of power purchase agreements in the last two months, according to data gathered by PFR. Non-utility offtake arrangements outweighed PPAs with traditional utilities and more solar than wind was contracted, but the picture varied state by state.
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In this week’s Industry Current, Bernays ‘Buz’ Barclay, managing partner at Rimon P.C. and senior adviser to Marathon Capital, calls on the power industry to engage with blockchain technology.
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WPPI Energy has issued a request for proposals for 100 MW of renewable generation, preferably from projects in Wisconsin.
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A solar powered airplane that could become the first aircraft to fly around the world without fuel has begun crossing the U.S.
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Michigan Electric Transmission Company, a subsidiary of ITC Holdings Corp., has issued a $200 million secured private placement to refinance an unsecured term loan due in 2018.
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PSEG Long Island, on behalf of the Long Island Power Authority, has issued a request for proposals for 535 MW in western Nassau County, N.Y.
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Corporations in a range of industries continue to supplant utilities as offtakers for renewable projects in the U.S., as they seek to bolster their green credentials.
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Non-utility corporate offtakers have continued to snap up power purchase agreements for the output of renewables projects in the last months, and it’s not all for data centers, although there were a couple of those.
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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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A Californian utility has employed 20 sure-footed creatures to help haul equipment to its remote hydroelectric project in the Eldorado National Forest.
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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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Entergy Corp. is evaluating whether to refuel its 850 MW James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant near Oswego, N.Y., against a backdrop of low power prices.
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The cfo of Abengoa Yield resigned on Monday, four months after the yield company’s ceo departed to run its parent company, Abengoa S.A.
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University of Minnesota students have unveiled a solar-powered hybrid car that they will take to the other side of the world to race across Australia.
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San Diego Gas & Electric has become the first utility to receive the Federal Aviation Administration’s permission to use drones.
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Two on-site wind turbines have been installed at the Eiffel Tower, as part of the first major renovations at the Parisian landmark in 30 years.
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Google is unveiling airborne wind turbines based on the designs of an avid kite-surfing engineer. The turbines will take flight next month.
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Technology companies are providing a bright spot in the perennial hunt for power purchase agreements this month.
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Wendy Carlson, former managing director of Marathon Capital, has joined Prudential Capital Group as the managing director of its power unit.
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Renewable developers RES America and Blackstone Group-backed OffshoreMW have won leases in the largest U.S. offshore wind auction to date.
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E.ON Climate & Renewables and GE Energy Financial Services have sealed tax equity investment for the 211 MW Grandview wind project in Amarillo, Texas.
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The House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a package of tax extensions that includes a one-year renewal of the production tax credit.
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Jerry Stalun, a former managing director at EIG Global Energy Partners, has joined Sol Systems as its senior director of investments. Stalun joined the Washington D.C.-based company Nov. 21 and reports to Yuri Horowitz, ceo.
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In the end, the beauty of renewables won out over novelty.
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The step down in the investment tax credits in 2016 have solar developers and financiers at the drawing board to create financing structures that will work for a pipeline of projects, according to speakers at Solar Media's Next Generation Solar PV Finance conference in New York.
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JPMorgan Capital Corp. has agreed to sell a portion of its tax equity investments in a portfolio of 10 wind farms to Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Capital.
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TransCanada and Elecnor have dropped out of a request for proposals to build and own the 310-mile Fort McMurray transmission project in Alberta.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued a request for proposals for an onsite solar project at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala.
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Solar developers are recruiting wooly mammals to keep landscaping in check at their projects in the western U.S.
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The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is auctioning off a pair of offshore wind plots that could accommodate up to 1.45 GW in the waters off Maryland.
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The City of Palo Alto Utilities in Palo Alto, Calif., has issued a request for proposals as it looks to establish a community solar program that allows utility customers to invest directly in solar generation.
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Solar and wind developers are looking to decrease project development costs in the face of expiring subsidies and dwindling renewable portfolio standards.
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Many wind and solar developers with smaller projects are having difficulty locking in debt and equity, despite a widely acknowledged increase in the amount of capital available to the power sector.
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Arizona Public Service has issued a request for proposal from solar developers and installers for two 10 MW utility-scale solar photovoltaic facilities in Arizona.
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SunEdison has agreed to purchase 50 MW of solar projects in Massachusetts from Boston-based renewable developer BlueWave Capital.
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NorthWestern Energy has launched a call for up to 45 MW of community-scale renewable energy in Montana.
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The Board of Water & Light in Lansing, Mich., has issued a request for proposals for 5 MW of solar.
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Dino Barajas, partner specializing in project finance and Latin America transactions at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Los Angeles, writes an overview of how recent reforms could shape the energy sector.
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DTE Energy has sold the retired 167 MW Marysville coal-fired plant to Commercial Development Co., an industrial brownfield redevelopment firm.
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Bostonia Partners has hired Randall Male as managing director in its Boston office.
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Energy Transfer Equity LP is buying out Iberdrola USA’s stake in a gas-fired facility in Pennsylvania.
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AES Corp. and Duke Energy are awaiting the outcome of the 2017-2018 capacity auction in PJM before taking bids in their respective auctions of unregulated generation in Ohio.
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New Zealand-based retail energy company Meridian Energy has sold a solar facjility in California to SunEdison—the final step in Meridian’s exit from the U.S. power market.
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Tenaska Solar Ventures has launched a debt package that could be north of $500 million to fund construction of its 150 MW Tenaska Imperial Solar Center West in Imperial County, Calif.
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Corporación América, an infrastructure-focused conglomerate out of Argentina, has closed a $176 million debt package financing the Carape I and II wind projects in Maldonado, Uruguay.
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Cheniere Energy is out to issue $2 billion in senior secured 144A bonds to fund capital costs on trains one through four at its Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas export facility in Louisiana.
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Clean Power Finance, a financial services and software provider for the residential solar industry, has raised $200 million in a fund to finance residential solar projects.
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Black Hills Energy-Colorado Electric has issued two requests for proposals for a total of 102 MW in southern Colorado.
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Boston-based First Wind has closed a $369 million financing package backing the 148 MW Oakfield wind project in Aroostook Country, Maine.
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Australian outfit Liquefied Natural Gas Limited has privately place $49.5 million in shares to existing institutional investors in Australia and the U.S. to fund the company’s operations until it reaches financial close on the debt for its $2.2 billion Magnolia LNG project.
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Canadian Solar has landed a C$115.5 million ($105.15 million) construction loan backing 30 MW of solar projects in Ontario.
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This week’s Industry Current on pricing, environmental impacts and new opportunities for generation and storage development is written by Laura Norin, senior project manager, Julia Getchell, associate, and Heather Mehta, principal, with power and energy consultancy MRW & Associates in Oakland, Calif.
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Natural gas pipeline owner Fermaca Enterprises is issuing $527 million in 144A notes to refinance debt on the Tarahumara pipeline in Mexico’s Chihuahua state before it adds a compression station to increase capacity.
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Belgian shipping and engineering company Exmar NV is looking to lock in $170 million in debt to back the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas export facility in waters off of Tolu, Colombia, in the Gulf of Morrosquillo.
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Rockland Capital has lined up a credit facility from Investec to backing its first fund Rockland Power Partners.
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SunEdison and Deutsche Bank have inked their fourth deal in 2014—this one financing construction of the 60 MW Regulus project in Kern County, Calif.
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NextEra Energy has confidentially filed an S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, putting it on track to take a portion of its unregulated assets public.
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Invenergy has closed a refinancing of the debt on the 620 MW Grays Harbor Energy Center natural gas-fired in Elma, Wash.
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Alterra Power Corp. and Fiera Axium Infrastructure are looking to secure debt to back construction of the 62 MW Jimmie Creek hydro project in southwest British Columbia.
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