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Sep 22, 2017 - Richard Metcalf

Guggenheim Taps Senior Barclays Investment Banker

Guggenheim Securities has hired a power and utilities investment banking veteran from Barclays as a senior managing director.
Sep 22, 2017 - John Marciano, Akin Gump

Industry Current: What does the Suniva Trade Case Mean for Deals in the Works?

The fact that the Suniva 201 trade case is now moving to the remedy phase has the potential to slow or stop solar projects in the works, write John Marciano, Shana Hofstetter and Greg Lavigne of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
Sep 22, 2017 - Olivia Feld, Richard Metcalf, Fotios Tsarouhis

ITC Rules in Favor of Suniva and SolarWorld

The U.S. International Trade Commission has found injury to the domestic crystalline silicon solar cell industry based on a petition bought by bankrupt manufacturers Suniva and SolarWorld.
Sep 21, 2017 - Fotios Tsarouhis

NAEIFF 2017: Solar Storage Heats Up By Degrees

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.
Sep 21, 2017 - Olivia Feld

NAEIFF 2017: South Korean Money Floods U.S. Power Space

An influx of foreign capital from South Korea has flooded the generation space as lenders chase yield in the U.S.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Eurus Continues Japan’s Push for Chilean Renewables

Sep 20, 2017 - Michael Turner

Japan’s Eurus Energy has entered the Chilean solar market with the acquisition, through its U.S. subsidiary, of two operational projects from Spain’s Grenergy Renwables, in the latest move by a Japanese company in the Latin American country.
Details Emerge on PG&E Hydro Projects Auction

Sep 20, 2017 - Olivia Feld

PFR has learned the identity of the investment bank advising Pacific Gas & Electric on the sale of a portfolio of two run-of-the-river hydro projects.

Industry Current: What does the Suniva Trade Case Mean for Deals in the Works?

Sep 22, 2017 - John Marciano, Akin Gump

The fact that the Suniva 201 trade case is now moving to the remedy phase has the potential to slow or stop solar projects in the works, write John Marciano, Shana Hofstetter and Greg Lavigne of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.
NAEIFF 2017: Solar Storage Heats Up By Degrees

Sep 21, 2017 - Fotios Tsarouhis

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.

ITC Rules in Favor of Suniva and SolarWorld

Sep 22, 2017 - Olivia Feld, Richard Metcalf, Fotios Tsarouhis

The U.S. International Trade Commission has found injury to the domestic crystalline silicon solar cell industry based on a petition bought by bankrupt manufacturers Suniva and SolarWorld.
SPI: Suniva Trade Case Casts Gloom over Vegas

Sep 14, 2017 - Olivia Feld

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.

Guggenheim Taps Senior Barclays Investment Banker

Sep 22, 2017 - Richard Metcalf

Guggenheim Securities has hired a power and utilities investment banking veteran from Barclays as a senior managing director.
Senior Banker Leaves ICBC

Sep 20, 2017 - Richard Metcalf

A senior structured finance banker has departed the New York office of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

Sep 15, 2017 - Power Finance & Risk

#PowerTweets - Sept. 18

The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter.
Sep 07, 2017 - Power Finance & Risk

Analysts Point to Marijuana Growers' High Electric Demand

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.
Aug 23, 2017 - Power Finance & Risk

Planning Pays Off as Eclipse Cuts Solar Capacity

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.