Renewables
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Minority stake sales in renewables platforms are becoming more common as sellers look to “recycle capital’, according to Ammad Faisal, senior managing director, Marathon Capital.
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Renewable energy executives – speaking at S&P Global Power Markets – are downplaying the political risk of the November US election on the nation’s energy transition.
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Atlas SP Partners has backed Energy-as-a-Service company Redaptive with a $225 million warehouse financing facility.
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Power generation company Engie Energía Chile has issued $500 million in green bonds on international markets.
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Octopus Energy has signed an agreement with Brazilian utility Grupo Energisa to support renewable generation development in the country.
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IDB Invest and the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) are partnering to finance projects across renewables and infrastructure sectors in Latin America.
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Chinese multinational State Grid (SGCC) plans to invest R$200 billion ($39.4bn) in the Brazilian electricity sector following its victory in Brazil's largest power transmission auction.
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International capital is heading to US renewables at what many in the space are calling “record breaking” pace.
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Renewables focused-asset manager Greenbacker Capital Management (GCM) has expanded its team with the hire of Evan Sherman as head of real estate acquisitions.
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Brazilian development bank BNDES and the French Development Agency (AFD) have signed an agreement to raise around R$1 billion ($200m) for green and sustainable infrastructure projects in the legal Amazon, North and Northeast regions of Brazil.
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Renewable energy and decarbonisation platform Origis Energy has promoted Vikas Anand to chief executive.
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Clean power developer Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) has appointed Nate Graham as chief technology officer.
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Latin American asset manager Patria Investments is launching an energy trading and commercialisation platform in Brazil.
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IDB Invest has issued 2 sustainable bonds in local currency to support renewable energy and infrastructure projects in Latin America.
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Renewable developer Genneia has inked a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Shell in Argentina.
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UAE state-owned developer Masdar is set to acquire a 50% stake in US-based independent renewable energy power producer Terra-Gen Power from Energy Capital Partners (ECP).
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Renewable developer Serena Energia (formerly Omega Energia) is planning a secondary share offering in Brazil.
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Spanish renewable developer Solarpack has appointed José Luis García Pérez as chief executive for Latin America, based in Santiago, Chile.
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The Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) has obtained a $100 million credit line extension co-financed by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).
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Already one of the cleanest energy mixes in the world, Latin American policy makers continue to push for ambitious net-zero targets. Renewables already generate 60% of the region’s electricity, twice the global average, with no shortage of sponsors looking to take advantage of some of the globe’s best renewables resources.
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