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Aug 14, 2018 - Shravan Bhat

Carlyle Returns to Banks for Gas-fired Portfolio Refi

For the second time in as many months, The Carlyle Group is hitting the bank market with a power project finance deal—this time to refinance debt on a trio of gas-fired peakers.
Aug 14, 2018 - Richard Metcalf, Michael Turner

Owners of Brazil's Pirapora Solar Bring in Local Strategic

The owners of the 321 MW Pirapora solar complex in Brazil, EDF Energies Nouvelles and Canadian Solar, are selling a 50% stake in the assets to a local wind and hydro power producer.
Aug 13, 2018 - Shravan Bhat

Coal-fired Plant Teeters Toward Second Restructuring

A coal-fired project in Mississippi that was financed through a levered sale-leaseback with Southern Co. is in danger of defaulting on its debt, six years after its last restructuring.
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.

Mergers & Acquisitions

CapDyn Acquires Golden State Solar Project

Aug 14, 2018 - Taryana Odayar

Capital Dynamics is acquiring a 90 MW contracted solar project in California that is due to be online by June of next year.
Owners of Brazil's Pirapora Solar Bring in Local Strategic

Aug 14, 2018 - Richard Metcalf, Michael Turner

The owners of the 321 MW Pirapora solar complex in Brazil, EDF Energies Nouvelles and Canadian Solar, are selling a 50% stake in the assets to a local wind and hydro power producer.

Carlyle Returns to Banks for Gas-fired Portfolio Refi

Aug 14, 2018 - Shravan Bhat

For the second time in as many months, The Carlyle Group is hitting the bank market with a power project finance deal—this time to refinance debt on a trio of gas-fired peakers.
Coal-fired Plant Teeters Toward Second Restructuring

Aug 13, 2018 - Shravan Bhat

A coal-fired project in Mississippi that was financed through a levered sale-leaseback with Southern Co. is in danger of defaulting on its debt, six years after its last restructuring.

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.