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Nov 24, 2020 - Richard Metcalf

Boralex to take full ownership of Québec wind projects

Boralex is buying Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec out of its stake in a 296 MW portfolio of three wind projects in Québec to become their sole owner.
Nov 24, 2020 - Richard Metcalf

Nautilus nabs tax equity for community solar

Nautilus Solar Energy has signed a tax equity commitment with an investment bank for a portfolio of 14 community solar projects in four US states.
Nov 23, 2020 - Richard Metcalf

Rebranded developer Vesper inks LC facility

Vesper Energy, the renewables development platform that was recently acquired and rebranded by Magnetar Capital, has signed a letter of credit facility to fund development activity.
Nov 23, 2020 - Richard Metcalf

Leeward closes on Texas wind repowering

Leeward Renewable Energy has reached financial close on the tax equity financing of its Sweetwater 3 Wind Farm repowering project in Texas.
Nov 23, 2020 - Richard Metcalf

Broad Reach enters California with storage acquisition

Houston-based energy storage company Broad Reach Power has acquired its first asset in California, the Cascade Energy Storage Project, from Enel.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Boralex to take full ownership of Québec wind projects

Nov 24, 2020 - Richard Metcalf

Boralex is buying Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec out of its stake in a 296 MW portfolio of three wind projects in Québec to become their sole owner.
Apollo launches second energy transition SPAC

Nov 24, 2020 - Richard Metcalf

Apollo Global Management has launched a second blank check company targeting the energy transition and sustainability less than a month after its first such vehicle acquired electric vehicle maker Fisker.

Canadian Solar wins PPAs in Brazil

Nov 24, 2020 - Juliana Ennes

Canadian Solar has been awarded power purchase agreements with BTG Pactual and state-owned power company Furnas for 862 MW (DC) of solar capacity in Brazil.
Nautilus nabs tax equity for community solar

Nov 24, 2020 - Richard Metcalf

Nautilus Solar Energy has signed a tax equity commitment with an investment bank for a portfolio of 14 community solar projects in four US states.

FirstEnergy disclosure trips anti-corruption reps and warranties

Nov 20, 2020 - Richard Metcalf

FirstEnergy Corp's lenders have signed waivers and amended the terms of its loans to cure compliance breaches stemming from the disclosure of a roughly $4 million payment that was uncovered as part of an internal bribery investigation.
FirstEnergy disclosure breaches anti-corruption reps and warranties

Nov 20, 2020 - Richard Metcalf

FirstEnergy Corp's lenders have signed waivers and amended the terms of its loans to cure compliance breaches stemming fromthe disclosure of a roughly $4 million payment in 2019 that was uncovered as part of an internal bribery investigation.

Colombia’s EPM loses finance chief

Nov 23, 2020 - Carmen Arroyo

Jorge Andres Tabares has left Empresas Públicas de Medellín after five years of managing its finances as executive vice president of finance and investments.
Holland & Knight hires two, names energy & infra chair

Nov 20, 2020 - Richard Metcalf

Holland & Knight has hired two senior attorneys from rival firms and appointed one of them as chair of its energy and infrastructure M&A and finance team.

Nov 20, 2020 - Richard Metcalf

Putting the ESG into USA

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.
Nov 13, 2020 - Richard Metcalf

Return of the two-digit margins

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.
Oct 23, 2020 - Richard Metcalf

The Buzz: What’s in a name?

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.