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Aug 13, 2018 - Shravan Bhat

Ex-Cogentrix Players Ramp Up Financing Effort for PJM Gas-fired Project

A team of ex-Cogentrix Energy Power Management employees is beginning to look for equity investors for a gas-fired project that is under development in Virginia.
Aug 10, 2018 - Shravan Bhat

Hudson Signs Deal to Sell Eagle Creek Hydro Co.

A shareholder group led by Hudson Clean Energy Partners has agreed to sell hydro portfolio company Eagle Creek Renewable Energy to Ontario Power Generation.
Aug 10, 2018 - Taryana Odayar

M&A Mid-Year Review: Strong Demand for Renewables Pumps Deal Flow

Investors bidding fiercely to deploy capital into a limited supply of North American renewables projects are pushing up valuations and delving into development-stage assets, contributing to a more active mergers and acquisitions market, writes Taryana Odayar.
Aug 09, 2018 - Shravan Bhat

Wells Stumps Up Final Chunk of Tax Equity for Sempra Solar Set

Wells Fargo has funded the final $85 million of tax equity financing for Sempra Renewables’ 200 MW Great Valley solar portfolio in Fresno, Calif., the bank announced on Aug. 8.
Aug 09, 2018 - Richard Metcalf

Entergy Sub Sells FMB to Fund Louisiana Gas-fired Pair

Entergy Corp.’s regulated utility subsidiary in Louisiana priced a $600 million first mortgage bond on Aug. 8, listing construction of two gas-fired plants totaling more than 1.9 GW among the uses of proceeds.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Pattern Closes Sale of Québec Wind Project to Yieldco, PSP

Aug 14, 2018 - Taryana Odayar

Pattern Development has completed the sale of the 147 MW Mont Sainte-Marguerite project in Québec, Canada, to its yield company, Pattern Energy Group, and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments).
Pattern Scratches Plan for New Mexico Dropdown

Aug 13, 2018 - Taryana Odayar

Pattern Development has removed a New Mexico wind project from the identified right of first offer list of its yield company Pattern Energy.

Ex-Cogentrix Players Ramp Up Financing Effort for PJM Gas-fired Project

Aug 13, 2018 - Shravan Bhat

A team of ex-Cogentrix Energy Power Management employees is beginning to look for equity investors for a gas-fired project that is under development in Virginia.
Wells Stumps Up Final Chunk of Tax Equity for Sempra Solar Set

Aug 09, 2018 - Shravan Bhat

Wells Fargo has funded the final $85 million of tax equity financing for Sempra Renewables’ 200 MW Great Valley solar portfolio in Fresno, Calif., the bank announced on Aug. 8.

Entergy Sub Sells FMB to Fund Louisiana Gas-fired Pair

Aug 09, 2018 - Richard Metcalf

Entergy Corp.’s regulated utility subsidiary in Louisiana priced a $600 million first mortgage bond on Aug. 8, listing construction of two gas-fired plants totaling more than 1.9 GW among the uses of proceeds.
Wheelabrator Seeks Approval for IPO

Aug 03, 2018 - Shravan Bhat

Energy Capital Partners' waste-to-energy portfolio company Wheelabrator Technologies has sought approval to float 49% of its shares on either the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq.

Sempra Renewables President Shifts to Utility Role

Aug 13, 2018 - Taryana Odayar

The president of Sempra Energy's U.S. renewable project development unit is set to move to San Diego Gas & Electric, the group's regulated electric utility company in California.
Clean Line's Skelly Takes Lazard Job

Aug 10, 2018 - Taryana Odayar

Michael Skelly, the founder and chairman of transmission developer Clean Line Energy, has joined Lazard Frères & Co. as a senior advisor focusing on energy, sustainability and infrastructure.

Aug 03, 2018 - Shravan Bhat

Michael Cohen, Nuclear Lobbyist?

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.
Jul 20, 2018 - Shravan Bhat

#PowerTweets July 20, 2018: ERCOT, Plutonium Theft, Wildfires

The #PowerTweets feature tracks trends in project finance and M&A in the Americas on Twitter. For more news and coverage.
Jul 13, 2018 - Power Finance & Risk

Generators in Irish Sea?—British Plans for N. Ireland Power in Worst-case Brexit Scenario

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.