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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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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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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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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