Regulatory Agency / Government
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking more information before advancing ConocoPhillips’ $22.5 billion all-stock buy of Marathon Oil.
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Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association has received a key state-level regulatory approval from the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on the $75 million sale of its transmission facilities, contracts, and assets to United Power, PFR has learned.
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Electricity and power generation company Vistra has received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to acquire Energy Harbor. It is the final approval needed in a $6.3 billion merger that will rebrand Vistra as renewables mega firm Vistra Vision.
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Crowell & Moring has hired Ruta Kalvaitis Skučas as partner in the law firm's environment, energy, and natural resources practice group.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has announced its plan for solar projects across the western US through an updated roadmap as part of its solar development plan for the region.
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The Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) and NuScale Power Corporations (NuScale) have terminated their Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP) located at the Idaho National Laboratory.
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The Alberta government has paused approval of renewable generation projects as the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) reviews recent policy issues and competing public interest factors.
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Minnesota Power and Great River Energy's joint transmission project, Northland Reliability Project, has reached another step in the state regulatory process.
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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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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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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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DPP Holdings, the Chilean subsidiary of Canada’s Distributed Power Partners, has begun the permitting process for a 12.5 MW (DC) solar unit in the country’s Antofagasta region under the PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distributed generation scheme.
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Sempra Energy has reached financial close on the sale of its Chilean assets to State Grid International Development, after announcing the agreement in October of last year.
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German renewable energy start-up Energy Kitchen is adding a 95.2 MW wind project with a battery storage system to its Chilean wind pipeline while it works on three other smaller-scale projects in the country.
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A group of banks led by IDB Invest are about to launch a liquidity credit line to help Chilean power companies impacted by the freeze in power prices implemented at the end of 2019.
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The government of Brazil is sticking to its guns, trying to push through the privatization of Eletrobras in this calendar year.
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Developers in Mexico presented bids on June 15 to participate in a tender for geothermal exploration and drilling projects in the country, which has been in the works since 2018.
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Ecuador's state-owned utility Ecuador Electric Corp has launched a procurement process for a 14.8 MW (DC) solar project with a battery storage unit on the Galapagos islands.
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BNDESPar, the private investment arm of Brazilian development bank BNDES, has hired a financial adviser to assist with the sale of its stake in AES Tietê Energia.
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French energy company Engie has closed a R$2.51 billion ($485 million) loan with Brazilian development bank BNDES to finance the construction of its Novo Estado transmission line project.
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Canada's Polaris Infrastructure is looking to enter the Panamanian power market with the acquisition of a 10 MW hydro plant from Navitas Holdings.
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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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Chilean company Saggitar is moving forward with the development of a small-scale solar project that will qualify under the country's PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distribution generation scheme.
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Mexico's Business Coordinating Council has hit back at transmission fee hikes by state-owned utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), describing the policy as “illegal and inadmissible” and "indefensible."
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Argentinian developer Central Puerto has begun selling generation from a wind project in Tucumán province to Swedish auto company Scania under a long-term power purchase agreement.
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An infrastructure and energy lawyer is among six attorneys recently promoted to partner by Brazilian law firm Mattos Filho.
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Market participants in Mexico say new transmission costs imposed on power projects approved before the 2014 Energy Reform – known as proyectos legados – will have a trickle-down effect in the sector harming the asset's developers, equity investors, lenders and off-takers.
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Chile’s economic development agency Corfo is launching a $39 million credit line for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the country.
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Sempra Energy aiming to close the previously announced sale of its Chilean assets to State Grid International Development on June 24.
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Solar developer Solek is plotting a sixth small-scale solar project in Chile, adding 7 MW (DC) of capacity to its 49.27 MW (DC) portfolio.
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The Brazilian subsidiary of Chinese company CGN Energy plans to invest R$1 billion ($201.52 million) in the construction of a seven-phase wind project in the country.
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Mexico’s state-owned Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) is planning a procurement process for a transmission project in the state of Baja California, adding to the country’s transmission pipeline.
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Petrobras has issued a teaser for the sale of its stakes in five gas, oil, diesel-fired and small hydro plants in Brazil.
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The Inter-American Development Bank is arranging a $280 million debt package for Ecuador to diversify and improve the country’s energy matrix and boost renewable energy sources.
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Canada's Polaris Infrastructure has closed a $27 million debt package from Brookfield Asset Management's Infrastructure Debt Fund for a portfolio of hydro projects in Peru.
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Spain’s Elawan Energy has inked an agreement with Brazil’s Secretariat of Economic Development (SDE) to develop a 16 MW wind farm in the Brazilian state of Bahia.
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Battery storage company Leclanché has secured construction financing for a 36.5 MW solar-plus-storage unit on the Caribbean island of St Kitts.
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Colombian power producer Isagén is plotting the development of its first wind farm in the country, which would be Colombia's largest to date.
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Spain’s OPDEnergy has agreed to sell a majority stake in two solar parks in Mexico to Riverstone Holdings and is also planning to launch a joint venture with the asset management firm.
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Spain's Solarpack is planning to sell a 9 MW solar project that is under construction in the Chilean region of Maule.
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Greenpeace and the Mexican Center for Environmental Law (CEMDA) have secured a temporary suspension of policies introduced by Mexican grid operator Cenace and the Secretariat of Energy (SENER) that threaten to delay the interconnection of renewable energy projects in the country.
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Spain's Acciona is developing a 43.2 MW wind farm in the Chilean region of La Araucanía – its seventh project in the country.
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Enel has brought forward the schedule for shuttering its two coal-fired units in Chile from 2024 to 2022.
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Colombian power distributor Electrificadora de Huila (Electrohuila) is preparing to begin construction on a 24.23-mile (39 km) transmission line in the southern state of Huila.
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EDF has received the green light to acquire up to 600 MW of wind projects in Brazil from developer PEC Energy, a subsidiary of Grupo Engeform.
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Mexico’s state-owned Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) has launched a tender for a 25 MW geothermal project.
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Developers in Argentina have faced an inhospitable project finance market since 2018, but the country's leading wind developer Genneia has managed to finance no fewer than nine wind projects in the past two years, using creative structures including the company's first ECA-backed corporate loan.
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Argentinian independent power producer Stoneway Capital Corp has secured a forebearance agreement from its creditors, who had been discussing foreclosure in mid-March.
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Canadian renewable energy developer Saturn Power has obtained an operating permit for a 6 MW solar project in Bermuda.
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Spanish conglomerate Activos en Renta Grupo Corporativo and Chilean developer Energías Renovables Saintec are in the process of permitting a 54.45 MW solar project in the country’s Atacama region.
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Panama's state-owned transmission company Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica (Etesa) must reevaluate its proposed Fourth Line project (Cuarta Línea) on the Atlantic coast, after the country's Public Services Authority (ASEP) rejected its latest proposal.
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Uriel Renovables, the renewable branch of Spanish holding company Uriel Inversiones, is developing a small-scale solar project in the Chilean region of Ñuble
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Colombia's Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) has pushed back the procurement process for a transmission line in the country's Caribbean region by a month – it is the fourth delay since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country.
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Spain's Grenergy Renovables is planning to sell a five-project portfolio of solar projects totaling 52 MW in Chile.
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A Chilean developer is looking for an investor to acquire a majority stake in a 150 MW distributed generation portfolio in the country.
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A group of renewable energy developers in Mexico have won a legal reprieve against grid operator Cenace' suspension of interconnections for wind and solar projects.
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Eosol Energy, the renewable arm of Spain’s engineering company Grupo Eosol, is developing a 227.46 MW (DC) solar project in Chile.
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Atlas Renewable Energy is negotiating an up to $90 million financing with IDB Invest to fund the expansion of its Juazeiro solar project in Brazil.
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Colombia’s Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) is plotting a tender for the development of battery storage units and several substations on the country’s Caribbean coast.
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Chile’s Verano Capital is working on a 90 MW solar park in Antofagasta, which is expected to require an investment of $90 million.
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Development finance institution IDB Invest is preparing a debt package for Naturgy Energy's distribution companies in Panama, which are facing liquidity problems as a result of the government's response to Covid-19.
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Petrobras has started the non-binding phase of the sale of its minority stake in natural gas pipeline network Nova Transportadora do Sudeste.
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Mexico's Secretariat of Energy (SENER) has officially announced a measure to limit the development of renewable projects in the country, prompting a backlash from industry groups.
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Cuba is moving forward with the expansion of a state-owned small-scale solar park that will double the project's capacity.
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Independent power producer Sonnedix has added to its renewable energy development pipeline in Chile with a 150 MW (DC) solar project.
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Engie plans to invest some R$3 billion ($515 million) to build the 1,800 km Novo Estado transmission line in Brazil.
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IDB Invest is preparing a credit line for AES Corp's distribution subsidiaries in El Salvador, which face liquidity challenges as a result of government measures to mitigate the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on consumers.
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While Mexico's power sector grapples with the country's power pandemic policy, the Secretariat of Energy (SENER) plans a new measure that could further harm renewables.
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Paraguay's Administración Nacional de Electricidad (ANDE) has received bids for the development of a substation project that already has financing in place from the European Investment Bank.
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Brazil’s antitrust regulator Cade has approved EDP Grid’s acquisition of distributed solar projects in the country.
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Chile's Sphera Energy is developing a 150 MW PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distributed solar portfolio in the country.
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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 third time since COVID-19 hit the country.
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Enel Green Power is moving forward with the transmission work for its first wind project in Colombia.
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Mexico's competition authority, Cofece, has denounced grid operator Cenace's suspension of the interconnection of renewable energy projects as an unclear, unfair policy that is harmful to future investments.
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Global Power Generation, a subsidiary of Spain's Naturgy Energy Group, is working on a 101 MW solar project in Chile, its third renewable energy asset in the country.
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In January 2020, Colombia's Termocandelaria Power Limited built on its success in the international bond market with a $186 million tap to finance the conversion of a 20-year old peaker into what it says will be the country’s most efficient gas-fired generation project.
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French independent power producer Neoen has halted operations at a recently completed solar project in Mexico following the suspension of the interconnection of renewable assets in the country, ostensibly because of Covid-19.
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Enel Green Power Panama has signed an agreement to sell international renewable energy certificates from a solar project in Panama to German firm First Climate.
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A Mexican industry association has threatened Mexico's National Center for Energy (Cenace) with legal actions after the regulatory body introduced measures that could further harm renewable energy projects in the country.
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Spanish developer OPDEnergy has announced its first solar park in the US, which will have a 15-year power purchase agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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French developer Cap Vert Energie is laying the groundwork for a small-scale solar project to add to its PMGD (Pequeños medios de generación distribuida) pipeline in Chile.
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Solar developer Solek is plotting a portfolio of small-scale solar projects, having filed environmental paperwork for five assets totaling 49.27 MW in the past month.
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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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Guatemala’s power distributor Energuate has awarded five-year power purchase agreements to four companies as a result of a tender process that began earlier this year.
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Chilean company Saggitar is plotting the development of a small-scale solar duo, expected to qualify under the country's PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distributed generation scheme.
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Atlas Renewable Energy, the Latin American renewable energy portfolio company of private equity firm Actis, is working with a commercial bank and two DFIs to structure the financing of a 444 MW (DC) solar project in Mexico.
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Independent power producer Sonnedix is moving forward with the development of a battery storage system attached to a small-scale solar asset in Chile.
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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 Interconexión Eléctrica has requested regulatory approval for a transmission and substation project it won in a tender last year.
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Jinko Solar has sold a 155 MW (DC) operational solar project pair in Mexico to White River Renewables, a joint venture between U.S. private equity firm Riverstone Holdings and Switzerland’s White Summit Capital.
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Enel Green Power has signed a five-year power purchase agreement to supply 42 GWh of energy per year to a Guatemalan distribution company.
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Spanish conglomerate Activos en Renta Grupo Corporativo and Chilean developer Energías Renovables Saintec are plotting a 167 MW solar project in the country.
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Spain's Grupo Ibereólica has begun the permitting process for a 180 MW wind project in Chile.
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Peruvian state agency Proinversión has launched a procurement process for the development of two substation and transmission projects in the country.
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AES Gener has expanded its wind project development pipeline in Chile by adding a second phase to a previously approved, pre-construction project in the country.
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The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) is arranging a debt package to finance solar projects in Panama.
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A consortium led by infrastructure fund manager AVAIO Capital has appointed MUFG as financial adviser for an LNG export project on the west coast of Mexico.
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Total’s renewable energy subsidiary Total Eren is plotting the second phase of a three-stage solar park in Chile, after acquiring a stake in the first phase of the project.
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AES Gener is preparing to launch a $500 million capital raise to fund its 1.6 GW solar and wind pipeline in Chile and Colombia, having obtained approval from its existing shareholders.
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EDP Renováveis has secured a 15-year power purchase agreement for a solar project in Mexico with a local energy services company.
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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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Sempra Energy is nearing the close of the sale of its Peruvian assets to a Chinese buyer having received all required government authorizations.
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Developers are unsure what to expect from Mexico's soon-to-be-announced private sector investment plan for energy projects, after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador made comments both against and in favor of renewable energy in recent weeks.
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Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Non-renewable Natural Resources has postponed the tenders for two renewable projects in the country for the second time because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Spain’s Solarpack is moving forward with the development of a 187 MW solar project in Chile.
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Unpaid power bills in Argentina are causing delays in payments from distribution companies to state-owned wholesale power administrator Cammesa, with knock on effects for generators.
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Spain’s OPDEnergy is moving forward with the development of a 90 MW solar project in Chile, after receiving approval from environmental authorities.
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Despite recent progress toward a tender process for a politically contentious LNG regasification project on the Colombian Pacific coast, expectations among developers and project finance bankers are muted, given the challenges the project faces.
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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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Mexico's state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is structuring three tenders for transmission projects in the country.
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Spain’s X-Elio is moving forward with the development of a 90 MW solar park with a battery storage unit in Chile.
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Chile’s Energías Renovables Saintec is moving forward with the development of a 217.8 MW solar park in Chile after getting approval from the country's environmental authority.
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EnfraGen, a subsidiary of U.S.-based Glenfarne Group, is aiming to close the financing of a roughly 200 MW solar portfolio in Chile by the end of summer.
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A sponsor has been looking to finance two solar projects in Chile for several months, albeit unsuccessfully so far.
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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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Colombia’s Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) has pushed back by three weeks the procurement process for a transmission line in the country’s Caribbean region.
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Panama's state-owned transmission company Etesa has awarded short-term power purchase agreements with distribution companies to 18 generation companies.
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The sponsor of a combined-cycle gas-fired plant in Mexico has begun talks with bankers to refinance the asset after it starts operations.
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The non-bank financial institution Corporación Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura (CIFI) has provided a debt package for a solar portfolio developed under Chile’s PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distributed generation scheme.
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Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has quietly pushed back the procurement processes for combined-cycle gas-fired plants and a transmission line until the end of spring as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The procurement process for an 860 MW CCGT project in Mexico has been pushed back by several weeks as the country's economy reels and state-owned utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad, which is running the process, suffers a credit rating downgrade.
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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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The Chilean subsidiary of French developer Cap Vert Energie has begun the permitting process for two solar projects that are expected to qualify under the country's PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distributed generation scheme.
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British asset manager NextEnergy Capital has announced the acquisition of a 36.1 MW (DC) solar project in Mexico.
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Colombia’s Celsia is moving forward with the development of an almost 200 MW gas-fired project in the country.
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Ecuador’s Ministry of Energy and Non-renewable Natural Resources has postponed the procurement process for two renewable projects in the country because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Delays in the construction of a transmission line in Colombia because of the Covid-19 crisis could put several development-stage wind farms in the La Guajira department under financial duress.
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AES Gener is plotting the development of a 140 MW wind asset in Chile, the third for which the company has filed paperwork this month.
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The South Korean owners of a gas-fired plant in Chile began looking to refinance it through a private placement a few months ago, but market conditions may act as a deterrent, say bankers.
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Colombia’s Mines and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) has appointed an interim director after the previous incumbent, who oversaw the introduction of renewable energy auctions in the country, announced his resignation.
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Lima-based generation company Atria Energía is plotting a 66 MW solar park in Chile.
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The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has granted a $200 million loan to development finance institution Cooperación Andina de Fomento (CAF) to finance renewable projects in four Latin American countries.
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Zona Energía, owned by construction and real estate conglomerate Grupo Ebco, is preparing to move forward with its private-sector power auction in Chile despite disruption caused by the Covid-19 crisis.
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Colombia’s Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) and the consortium Consorcio Energía de la Costa, led by Colombian businessman Alberto Ríos, have won the reprivatization auction for power distributor Electricaribe, which will be split into two companies as a result.
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Project finance bankers in New York are eyeing PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) solar portfolios in Chile, which have become attractive investments—at least until the law changes.
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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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The results of a private power auction being run by Bravos Energía in Mexico were expected to be revealed this month but have been delayed until May.
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AES Gener is plotting the development of a 280 MW wind farm in Chile, as part of its strategy to increase investment in renewables in the country.
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CFEnergía, the fuel marketing arm of Mexico’s state-owned utility Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), has approved investment plans for two combined-cycle gas-fired projects in the country.
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Taiwan's General Energy Solutions (GES), through its local subsidiary Electronic JRC, obtained permission to increase the capacity of its solar park in the Dominican Republic.
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Colombia’s Celsia, owned by Grupo Argos, has announced it will not bid for Colombian power distributor Electricaribe in the auction on March 20.
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The tender for a 65 MW solar project in Uruguay has been postponed for the seventh time in six months.
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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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Chile’s National Electric Coordinator (NEC) has asked power companies in the country to submit plans to confront possible disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, as Chile sees the number of patients rise.
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Prospective buyers are presenting their final offers today for Colombian power distributor Electricaribe in an auction scheduled for March 20.
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Colombia’s Celsia has won the contract to develop a substation and transmission project in the country, out-bidding two other Colombian powerhouses.
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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 Invener, owned by the real estate and construction group EBCO, is plotting the development of a 258 MW wind project in Chile.
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Colombia’s Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA) has won the contract to build a transmission line in the country, after out-bidding four other companies.
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Argentinian independent power producer Stoneway Capital Corp. is embarking on what could be a lengthy restructuring process after bondholders declined to extend the maturity of debt due to be repaid this month.
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Engie Energía Chile has inked a power purchase agreement with Chilean fishing company Corpesca to supply its operations in the country from renewable sources.
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Ecuador’s state-owned electric corporation CELEC has announced a tender for a 14.8 MW (DC) solar project with a battery storage unit on the Galapagos islands.
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The Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) has launched a request for proposals for clean energy projects in the Caribbean and Central America.
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Mexico’s state-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) has launched a tender to find a gas supplier for gas-fired projects in the state of Baja California Sur, Mexico.
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Trina Solar has reached financial close on a solar park in Colombia with loans from local entities.
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Colombia's National Authority of Environmental Licenses (ANLA) has refuted a claim by Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) that the company had received approval to move forward with the construction of its 2.4 GW Ituango hydro project.
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Spain’s Naturgy Energy Group has announced it will invest €750 million ($843.2 million) in Panama’s electric distribution grid over the next ten years.
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Uruguay's state-owned utility company Administración Nacional de Usinas y Transmisiones Eléctricas (UTE) has postponed the tender for a 65 MW solar project in the country for the sixth time.
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