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Renewables project finance enthusiasts flocked to REFF Wall Street 2021 last week for two days of non-stop networking and panel discussions, after being deprived of conferences for over a year-and-a-half due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Renewables project finance enthusiasts flocked to a secluded conference center in midtown Manhattan earlier this week for REFF Wall Street 2021, after being deprived of events to attend over the last year-and-a-half. PFR editor Taryana Odayar and reporter Alfie Crooks were on site to catch the goings-on.
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While some debt investors have grown increasingly comfortable financing merchant solar assets over the last few years, many market watchers at REFF Wall Street 2021 remain unconvinced that the attractive yields to be gained by taking on merchant exposure outweigh the associated risks.
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Conference goers at REFF Wall Street 2021 in New York this week applauded the tremendous volume of investments in the renewables space over the last year-and-a-half, despite the disruption wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, but some warned that there could be "surprises down the road" as a result of the rapid buildout of the asset class.
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Wind sponsors look poised to favor a "more equitable" direct-pay structure following the approval of a portion of the Democrats’ proposed $3.5 trillion spending package by the US House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee, which could alter the tax equity landscape, say insiders at REFF Wall Street 2021.
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Renewable energy retailers have traditionally found ways to sway Texan customers to choose them, typically through competitive rates, but Octopus Energy has devised a new offering – Amazon Prime memberships.
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El Salvador's president has revealed plans to power Bitcoin mining operations in the country using geothermal energy produced by volcanoes, shortly after El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.
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NordLB's Sondra Martinez, CohnReznick Capital's Conor McKenna, Convergent Energy + Power's Frank Genova and Kirkland & Ellis's Brian Greene discuss the latest developments in the energy storage market.
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Colombia has set the dates for the country’s second renewable auction, which it first announced in November.
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A bladeless wind generator designed by a Madrid-based start-up has been dubbed the "Skybrator" due to its suggestive shape and the way it oscillates back-and-forth in a stiff breeze.
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Several renowned Scotch whisky makers, including Glenmorangie, are working out a spirited plan to power their Highland distilleries with green hydrogen produced using generation from nearby offshore and onshore wind farms.
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Securitization exists in the public consciousness primarily as a shadowy corner of the capital markets in which out-of-control financial engineering causes global economic meltdowns. Could it be due a reappraisal?
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Recently, it seems that every day brings blank check company news, whether it’s an initial public offering or a merger. But could a privately held renewable energy project developer go public this way by the end of the year?
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The years-long stampede of international capital into the US renewable energy sector has continued unabated in the first few weeks of 2021, as latecomers from around the world have finally got in on the action.
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As we heave a collective sigh of relief at finally putting 2020 behind us, let’s take a moment to reflect on the past 12 months through the lens of Power Finance & Risk’s most read stories of the year.
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Safety this holiday season is a top priority for IntelStor, which says it is providing Santa Claus with wind turbine geo-location mapping, to make sure that his sleigh ride round the globe goes off without a hitch.
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#PowerTweets is an occasional feature tracking trends in power finance and investment in the Americas on Twitter.
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Recent announcements show that major institutions are taking more of an interest in the world of community solar.
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NRG Energy has brought the US capital markets a step forward with its inaugural sustainability-linked bond, introducing a new flavor of greens for its debt investors to chew on. But as usual, European corporations led the way.
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The apparently unstoppable trend of ever-tightening project finance margins finally hit the buffers in March 2020. But now, even as the pandemic continues to rage, the race to the bottom is back with a vengeance.
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When Engie and EDP Renováveis christened their offshore wind joint venture Ocean Winds, you could be forgiven for assuming that it had taken about 10 seconds to come up with the name. But in the branding world, nothing is that simple.
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Enterprising energy innovators never tire of coming up with unlikely new locations for power generation – on highways, in roof tiles, at the end of a kite string – with mixed results. Now there’s a start-up producing electrons from municipal water pipes.
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In the world of project finance, power purchase agreements are usually considered from the point of view of the project owner or lender. But in the last few years, more attention has started to be paid to the other end of the contract.
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Take-or-pay busbar power purchase agreements with electric utilities are all well and good, but they’re starting to look a bit old-fashioned. Bitcoin batteries and green hydrogen are where it’s at these days.
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IJGlobal’s famed Latin America conference took place virtually on September 15 and 16 this year, after the event originally scheduled for March in Miami had to be canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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As developers phase out their coal-fired assets in Chile and replace them with renewable projects, sponsors' market shares could change, say attendees at IJLatam 2020, IJGlobal's Latin America energy and infrastructure conference.
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Despite Mexico's regulatory changes in the power market in the past few months, industry insiders claim that the market may have slowed down but is not closed.
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The US International Development Finance Corporation is considering deploying equity in Latin America, as it has done previously in other regions such as Southeast Asia.
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Power purchase contracts with non-utility corporate offtakers are growing in popularity in Latin America but remain an exception to the norm in project finance, said industry insiders at IJLatam 2020, IJGlobal's Latin America energy and infrastructure conference.
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As power market and policy experts quarrel over the reasons for California's first rolling blackouts in 19 years, renewable energy project developers and financiers spy opportunities.
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Whenever a Department of Energy loan goes bad – as it did in the case of the Crescent Dunes concentrated solar project in Nevada – questions are raised about the program. But how bad is the US government at picking winners, really?
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A recent development testifies to solar's lasting appeal, albeit with a controversial twist. Afghan opium poppy growers are among those that have caught on to the increasingly affordable technology, though presumably not with ESG criteria in mind.
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Developers of gas-fired and wind projects were united in their fury and dismay last year when Ohio’s House of Representatives passed House Bill 6 – the state’s nuclear and coal bail-out bill. The recent bribery allegations only add fuel to the sense of righteous indignation.
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Several renewable energy and thermal power project developers made use of federal Paycheck Protection Program funding earlier this year, according to data released by the US Department of the Treasury on July 6.
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After sifting through more than 100 nominations, Power Finance & Risk is pleased to announce the short lists for its 17th Annual Deal of the Year Awards.
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Since the novel coronavirus crashed into the US economy in March, the project finance market seems, for now at least, to have settled into a new groove. But while loan margins have widened versus the exuberant pre-pandemic days, some officials still suspect that the market—especially for renewable energy—may be overheated.
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Last week, we published a case study on the uncertain fate of Engie and Tokyo Gas’s Golden Eagle renewable energy portfolio in Mexico in the context of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s controversial energy policy (PFR, 6/25). But political risk is not confined to Latin America, and project finance bankers may do well to consider the risks in the US, too.
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As Pacific Gas & Electric’s bankruptcy proceedings appear to roll inexorably toward resolution, owners of power and renewable energy projects tied to the utility through power purchase agreements are beginning to indulge in pleasant thoughts of a return to normal for their project finance arrangements.
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The anti-racism protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis have led, among other things, to increased recognition of Juneteenth, the anniversary of the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans in the US.
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One of the first pieces of advice a retail stock investor receives after opening their first brokerage account or downloading the Robinhood app is not to try to “time the market.” But in corporate finance – especially during weak markets – timing is everything. If a window of opportunity opens after a period of volatility, you go for it.
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Eleven weeks after bankers and fund managers left Midtown Manhattan for coronavirus lockdown at home, the pace of activity in power and renewable energy finance in the US seems as hectic as ever. Indeed, disruption to the capital markets has created more work for some borrowers and unique opportunities for lenders.
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It has been credited with producing Western Europe's mild climate, blamed for intensifying Atlantic cyclones, and used for centuries by sailors to speed their passage across the ocean, but could the Gulf Stream soon become a source of plentiful renewable energy? A recent demonstration project has brought the idea a step closer.
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The Covid-19 panic that has sent markets spiraling has also upended the working conditions and lifestyles of project finance officials, with cancelled conferences, enforced remote working, handshake bans and even the prospect of "virtual closing dinners," however that is supposed to work.
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The annual Siemens Energy Financial Services Oktoberfest bash in New York settled into a new venue this year at the Ziegfeld Ballroom, a recently repurposed former movie theater in Midtown Manhattan.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends and news in power and energy on Twitter. For more news and coverage, follow @PowerFinRisk on Twitter, as well as editor @richmetcalf and reporters @Shravanbhat, @Taryana_Odayar and @ArroyoNieto.
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China has set a Guinness World Record for the largest solar panel image, which takes the pattern of a galloping horse and is equivalent in size to 195 football pitches.
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Power Finance & Risk brought together a panel of experts to talk through the changing dynamics of California’s sun-soaked power market and the impact for project financiers. Leaders from Strata Solar, CleanCapital, Capstone Headwaters and Solar Frontier Americas talked through PG&E’s restructuring, pricing of battery storage debt and much more.
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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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Early-stage renewable energy projects exceeding 1 GW were auctioned off at a novel event on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange last Monday, hosted by Akin Gump, Novogradac, DNV GL and FTI Capital Advisors.
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Back to back panels early on Day 1 of the REFF Wall Street 2019 conference at the Intercontinental Barclay in New York highlighted that despite the phase downs in federal renewables tax credits, the tax equity majors still the keys in the capital stack.
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With graduation festivities in full swing across the Golden State, PG&E has begun warning customers about the dangers of helium-filled metallic balloons, using the slogan, ‘Look Up and Live!’
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As the first step-down in the investment tax credit for solar looms, developers have begun to sound out banks for loans for panels and inverters that would safe harbor the equipment for the full incentives.
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Despite rumblings about overbuild in PJM Interconnection, developers are pushing ahead with new build gas-fired projects there, and lenders stand ready to finance them. The only thing missing, it seems, is equity.
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A panel of project finance professionals set about imagining the post-tax credit future of renewables financing at the S&P Global Platts Global Power Markets conference in Las Vegas this week, conjuring up a landscape of high yield debt and mezzanine capital supported by merchant wind and solar cashflows.
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Gusts of up to 46 mph in Las Vegas this week did not dampen the spirits of attendees of the S&P Global Platts 34th Annual Global Power Conference, but did put paid to plans for open air cigar parties. PFR editor Richard Metcalf and reporter Taryana Odayar were on hand to chronicle the action, inside and outside the conference hall.
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As representatives of developers, banks, investment firms and service providers descend on Las Vegas for S&P Global Platts’ 34th Annual Global Power Markets Conference, PFR takes a look at what to expect.
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Known for undertaking ambitious infrastructure projects such as the world’s largest hydro project, the Three Gorges Dam, China has now embarked on a mission to develop the first utility-scale solar project in space by 2040.
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An internal memo at Goldman Sachs regarding a new “firm wide flexible dress code” was widely reported this week, but don’t expect the firm’s investment bankers to turn up in sneakers and sweatpants any time soon.
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So you've left your job at an established financial institution, project developer or energy retailer and decided to set up your own energy investment firm. There are a lot of decisions to make, but first of all, you need a logo. Where do you go?
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On the morning of Feb. 2, sleeping residents of the Rhode Island towns of Cranston and Johnston were rudely awakened by a booming roar.
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Budweiser’s 2019 Super Bowl ad features all of its classic motifs: Its beloved Clydesdales, a Dalmation mascot, fields of wheat, and—in an unusual twist—wind turbines spinning to the sultry sounds of Bob Dylan.
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A transformer explosion at a ConEdison facility in Astoria, Queens, which took place two days after Christmas, set the New York city skyline ablaze with a dazzling blue glow. The blast caused power outages across the borough, including at LaGuardia airport, and sent social media users into a frenzy about the possibility of an alien invasion.
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In October, PFR teamed up with Fitch Ratings and Orrick to host a candid discussion on the challenges and opportunities for financing America’s nascent offshore wind industry. Experts covered everything from debt pricing to offtake structures and the full report is in this week’s issue.
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Paraguay, home to Jesuit ruins, rainforests and the world’s largest dam, will also soon be home to what is being touted as the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining center and exchange, which will be powered by the massive, state-owned Itaipú hydroelectric project under a 15-year contract.
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As market participants prepare for the U.S. offshore wind industry to take off, PFR is publishing a special report on the topic, featuring a roundtable discussion sponsored by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Fitch Ratings.
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Con Edison Solutions has installed solar arrays at five Catholic parishes on Staten Island and in Yonkers, N.Y., after signing 20-year power purchase agreements.
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Project finance veterans pushed back against the notion that free-flowing capital was producing riskier deals at the S&P Global Platts Financing US Power Conference on Oct. 23.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends and news in power and energy on Twitter.
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A Oregon solar project operated by Pine Gate Renewables is abuzz with a sweet collaboration involving bees and brews.
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Amid a squeeze on returns on tax equity, developers are reporting a reversal in market dynamics, with investors coming to them looking for deals.
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NRG Energy’s sale of its wind and solar development business has freed the company to procure renewables from third-party developers as it remodels itself as an energy retailer.
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Just as one robin (or, depending on your geographic location, swallow) doesn’t make a spring, two project finance CLOs (PF CLOs)—Bayfront Infrastructure and RIN—may not confidently mark the re-emergence of PF CLOs. They are, nevertheless, a positive and potentially significant development, writes Paul Forrester, Chicago-based partner at Mayer Brown.
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As President Donald Trump's grand infrastructure plan hit the buffers earlier this year, his former attorney, Michael Cohen, was allegedly doing his own bit for the cause by seeking government funds for a mothballed nuclear project in Alabama, according to an Aug. 2 report in the Wall Street Journal.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter. For more news and coverage.
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British bureaucrats have drawn up radical contingency plans to keep the lights on in Northern Ireland—which relies on a shared energy market with the Irish republic—in the case of a “no-deal Brexit”, the Financial Times reported last week.
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the superman-shaped drone that environmental group Greenpeace flew into a wall of EDF's 3,580 MW Bugey nuclear facility on July 3.
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A 2.6 GW hydro project built in the Soviet Union in the 1950s is partly to blame for the decline of sturgeon that has devastated the Russian caviar industry, according to a British wildlife conservation researcher.
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In this week’s Industry Current, John J. Marciano III, partner, and Ramin Mohammad, associate, at Akin Gump in Washington, D.C., outline the implications of the Internal Revenue Service’s latest guidance in relation to the solar investment tax credit.
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Celebrity spotting, a Danish debut and the usual high quality food and drink marked REFF Wall Street this year, which was attended by PFR editor Richard Metcalf and reporters Fotios Tsarouhis and Shravan Bhat
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Capital Dynamics has sealed its purchase of 8point3 Energy Partners, sparking conversations about the future of the yield company business model during a busy week of summer conferences.
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Using renewable energy to mine cryptocurrency is not a new idea—PFR first reported on it in December, at which point miners in Europe and Iceland were already using hydro and geothermal—but a recent intervention by Star Trek legend William Shatner has thrust the concept squarely into the limelight.
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The results of the recent PJM Interconnection capacity auction have excited many in the industry but should prompt a thoughtful pause, writes Louise Pesce, managing director at MUFG in Los Angeles, in this week’s Industry Current.
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As the dust settled after a surprisingly strong PJM Interconnection capacity auction result last month, uncertainty around complex market design reforms made for a more sober assessment of the situation at the S&P Global Platts Northeast Power & Gas Markets Conference in New York.
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PFR has pored over the results of this year’s JP Morgan Corporate Challenge race in New York’s Central Park to find out which power sector financiers crossed the finish line first.
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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 #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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As the GenOn Energy asset sale spawns several power holding companies with “Kestrel” in the name, an electric utility in California has been busy finding names for a trio of peregrine falcons.
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Kirk Edelman, global head of energy finance at Siemens Financial Services, makes the case for gas-fired generation to complement renewables and for investment from technology and equipment suppliers as a key step in attracting capital from banks and institutional investors, in this week’s Industry Current.
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Calendar clashes, avocado implements and steak—a few notes and observations from the sidelines of the Platts Global Power Markets conference in Las Vegas.
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Pioneering corporate renewables offtaker Microsoft Corp. is focusing its U.S. procurement efforts on wind as the U.S. imposes tariffs on imported solar products, according to the company’s director of renewable energy.
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While margins on U.S. project finance loans continue to be squeezed, lenders are still looking to enter or return to the market, given a lack of alternatives elsewhere, deal watchers told PFR on the sidelines of the Platts Global Power Markets conference in Las Vegas this week.
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Delegates at the Euromoney Seminars 12th Annual Latin American Energy & Infrastructure Finance Forum in Miami Beach are keeping at least one eye on Latin America’s colorful political landscape, as a year of national elections and unfolding corruption probes promises to have a bearing on project financings and M&A deals.
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The recent reform of the U.S. tax regime has ushered in several provisions that, taken together, could make sale-leaseback financing transactions attractive, whether to refinance solar projects or fund the acquisitions of gas-fired facilities. John Eliason and David Weisblat attorneys at Foley & Lardner, address the possibilities in this week’s Industry Current.
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Development banks say they will continue to play an important role in Latin American project finance, even as the region's larger economies ease their reliance on them as they court private investment.
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As capital floods into renewable energy, investors must think strategically about merchant tails and asset performance management, which means digging into power market and operational data analysis, write Ryan Hardy, Ethan Paterno and Barbara Sands, energy and utilities experts at PA Consulting Group, in this week’s Industry Current.
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PFR caught up with the great and the good of power project finance as they milled around with wine, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres laid on by Latham & Watkins at New York’s American Museum of Natural History on March 1.
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Tesla’s rooftop solar panels and its rechargeable Powerwall battery will soon be available at The Home Depot.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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Participants in solar project finance are beginning to digest the long-awaited announcement that the U.S. will impose a tariff, initially of 30%, on imported solar cells and modules.
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Delegates traveling to Louisiana from frigid northern cities had their hopes of a respite from the cold dashed as temperatures in New Orleans hovered around freezing point for the duration of the conference this year.
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Loan pricing is grinding ever tighter amid tough competition and an unrelenting influx of lenders to the U.S. project finance market, said deal watchers at the Infocast Projects and Money conference in New Orleans this week.
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These were not the optics Germany wanted in 2018. The St. Lambertus Catholic church in Immerath, west of Cologne, has been bulldozed to make way for an open-pit lignite mine.
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Power Finance & Risk is accepting pitches for Deal of 2017 as part of its 15th Annual Deals and Firms of the Year Awards, recognizing excellence in power asset M&A and project finance across the Americas.
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The final version of the Republicans’ signature tax reform bill puts to rest many of the fears expressed by the renewable industry, but leaves unclear how the broader tax equity market will adapt to the new rules, writes Eli Katz, partner at Latham & Watkins in New York.
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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 #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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Whether or not one believes bitcoin is the decentralized future of money or a pyramid scheme masquerading as currency, the reality is that mining bitcoins consumes enormous amounts of energy.
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House Republicans took aim at some of the key tax subsidies used by the wind industry in a sweeping tax reform bill unveiled on Nov. 2, writes Eli Katz, partner at Latham & Watkins in New York, in this week's Industry Current.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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Abandoned coal-fired plants may not seem glamorous, but one such structure in New Orleans has developed a secondary career in recent years as a setting on the silver screen and TV.
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M&Ms, Harvey Weinstein and millennials all somehow made it into the reporter’s notebook at this year’s Platts Financing U.S. Power Conference in New York.
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Cheap debt and the ticking clock strapped to federal tax credits could well bolster wind project development over the next year, said financiers at the American Wind Energy Association’s Wind Energy Finance & Investment Conference 2017 on Oct. 25 and 26.
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M&A, refinancing activity and even new-build financings could be on the cards in Texas in the wake of recently announced coal-fired plant retirements, according to speakers at the 19th Annual Platts Financing U.S. Power Conference in New York.
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Some of the power finance world’s fresher faces gathered at CohnReznick Capital’s offices in New York’s Credit Lyonnais Building on Oct. 12 for Juniors in Energy Finance's inaugural “30 Under 30” presentation event.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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Discussions on solar-plus-storage outshone talk on other emerging technologies at the 12th Annual North American Energy and Infrastructure Finance Forums in New York, but lenders are at various stages on the road to financing such projects.
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An influx of foreign capital from South Korea has flooded the generation space as lenders chase yield in the U.S.
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As cash pours into project finance, non-bank lenders are trying hard to differentiate themselves from banks and each other.
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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Temperatures may have exceeded 90 degrees in Las Vegas at Solar Power International, but a cloud in the shape of the Suniva trade case loomed over delegates and dominated discussion.
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The competition between lenders and tax equity providers has heated up as new entities look to invest in the solar sector and the number of projects available for financing lesson.
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Goldman Sachs has hired an former senior staffer at SunEdison and TerraForm Power.
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NRG Energy has received first-round bids for its renewable businesses, conventional assets and yield company, PFR has learned.
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As the generation industry eyes developing pockets of demand for the electrons it produces, a report from Barclays highlights a growing source of demand for millions of megawatts: Cannabis farming.
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As astronomy enthusiasts headed for the path of totality on Aug. 21 to witness the first coast-to-coast total eclipse in the U.S. for nearly a century, grid operators from California to the Carolinas braced for a dip in solar generation.
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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 #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in power project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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Total solar eclipses occur as a result of a peculiar, cosmic coincidence—the sun and moon, because of their relative sizes and distances from our planet, appear the same size in the sky.
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Al Gore's sequel to his documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which opened in U.S. movie theaters on Friday, has so far garnered mixed reviews.
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A new class of tax equity investor is ready to enter the market, said speakers at the 14th annual REFF Wall Street conference in New York.
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An abundance of capital has run up against a lack of major wind and solar projects to finance, forcing banks and investors to broaden their horizons, said panelists at the 14th annual REFF Wall Street conference in New York.
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There were many lessons to be learned at the 14th annual REFF Wall Street conference, such as: Not everyone's mother works for a hedge fund.
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Bankers have shot down plans reportedly floated by President Donald Trump to festoon his controversial Mexican border wall with solar panels, but not everyone is so skeptical.
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Mandates and potential structural issues arising from the two recent power auctions in Mexico were discussed at a half-day conference hosted by Morrison & Foerster in its New York office on June 14.
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Of the many power sector financiers at commercial and investment banks that ran in this year’s JP Morgan Corporate Challenge race in Central Park, who was the fleetest?
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The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
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Continued low gas prices and depressed demand lower megawatt-per-day payments and change the game for all parties involved, writes Louise Pesce, m.d., project finance, at MUFG, in this week’s Industry Current.
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Power Finance & Risk announced the winners of its 14th Annual Deals and Firms of the Year Awards at a drinks reception at the Bryant Park Hotel in New York on May 24.
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The impact of nuclear subsidies on gas-fired generation and the difficulty of approving natural gas pipelines in New York state were hot topics at Platts Northeast Power & Gas Markets Conference, which was held at the New York Marriott Downtown on May 22 and 23.
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Renewable project sponsors and tax equity investors are beginning to come to terms despite uncertainty over tax reform, allowing financings to trickle through.
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France’s Akuo Energy has tapped a trendy source of capital, raising €200,000 for an operational 28 MW wind project through its own crowdfunding platform.
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The U.S. President has selected two prospective Republican commissioners to sit on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the White House announced on Monday.
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EDF EN Canada’s investment in a 23 MW (DC) solar project in Ontario has begun to pay a tasty dividend, in the form of honey.
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A sponsor has assigned a lead arranger for a gas-fired project in PJM Interconnection, where project financing activity is paused in the run up to the upcoming capacity auction, attendees at the Platts Global Power Markets conference in Las Vegas told PFR.
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Solar and Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) experts at the IMN Green Investing Conference on Thursday noted that both markets will see more participation as issuance accelerates and the sectors become more sophisticated.
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The 32nd annual Platts Global Power Markets Conference from April 24 to April 26 at the Wynn Las Vegas. PFR managing editor Olivia Feld and reporter Fotios Tsarouhis were in attendance.
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