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Jul 20, 2018 - Richard Metcalf

Q2 League Tables: Refis Keep Volumes up as MUFG Regains Lead

After a slow first three months of the year, project finance activity picked up in the second quarter, propelling MUFG to the top spot of the North American power project loans and bonds league tables.
Jul 20, 2018 - Power Finance & Risk

Private Equity Firm Moves Forward with PJM Gas-Fired Portfolio Sale

LS Power has taken first-round bids for the sale of a 2.3 GW portfolio of gas-fired power plants located in the PJM Interconnection.
Jul 19, 2018 - Power Finance & Risk

Former CPV Legal Chief Lands New Gig

A lawyer who has previously held in-house roles at merchant power companies including Competitive Power Ventures has joined a biomass fuel producer as general counsel.
Jul 19, 2018 - Michael Turner

Sonnedix Buys Greenfield Solar Project in Chile

Miami-headquartered Sonnedix has bought a 138 MW solar project in Chile from a subsidiary of a Spanish developer, as the independent power producer continues its expansion in the country.
Jul 19, 2018 - Stuart Wise

Pacific Power Signs Solar PPAs for Facebook Data Center

Pacific Power has inked power purchase agreements with two solar projects as part of a renewables deal for a Facebook data center in Oregon.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Private Equity Firm Moves Forward with PJM Gas-Fired Portfolio Sale

Jul 20, 2018 - Power Finance & Risk

LS Power has taken first-round bids for the sale of a 2.3 GW portfolio of gas-fired power plants located in the PJM Interconnection.
Spanish Developer Sells Mexico Solar Project with Pre-reform PPAs

Jul 20, 2018 - Power Finance & Risk

Dhamma Energy has closed the sale of a 108 MW (DC) solar project in the Mexican state of Guanajuato that is contracted under private power purchase agreements signed before the country's energy reforms.

Q2 League Tables: Refis Keep Volumes up as MUFG Regains Lead

Jul 20, 2018 - Richard Metcalf

After a slow first three months of the year, project finance activity picked up in the second quarter, propelling MUFG to the top spot of the North American power project loans and bonds league tables.
EDF Combines Utility Contract with Hedge for California Solar Storage Project

Jul 20, 2018 - Richard Metcalf

EDF Renewables North America has secured a power purchase agreement with a utility and a power hedge with a financial institution for a 70 MW solar-plus-storage project in California.

Faro Energy Brings Green Bonds to Brazilian Solar

Jul 12, 2018 - Michael Turner

Faro Energy has printed Brazil’s first certified green bond for solar energy, as the financial product continues to break ground among Latin America’s solar companies.
Avangrid Adds to Green Revolver Momentum

Jul 03, 2018 - Richard Metcalf

The sustainability-linked loan pricing trend is gathering pace in the U.S., with renewables developer and utility holding company Avangrid becoming the latest corporation to agree to make the margin on its revolving credit facility dependent on environmental metrics.

Former CPV Legal Chief Lands New Gig

Jul 19, 2018 - Power Finance & Risk

A lawyer who has previously held in-house roles at merchant power companies including Competitive Power Ventures has joined a biomass fuel producer as general counsel.
Infra Fund Manager Branches Out into Debt

Jul 17, 2018 - Shravan Bhat

A private equity infrastructure investment firm is developing a New York-based credit platform under two managing directors hired in June.

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.
Jul 06, 2018 - Shravan Bhat

Greenpeace Flies Drone into French Nuke

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.