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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Brazilian development bank BNDES and the Asian Infrastructure Bank (AIIB) have signed an MoU to deepen cooperation on providing sustainable finance in Brazil.
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Spanish utility Iberdrola has submitted a non-binding offer to buy the remaining 18.4% of its US subsidiary Avangrid for $2.5 billion, aimed at taking over the entire company.
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Mining company Codelco has awarded several long-term power purchase agreements (PPA) in Chile.
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Elda River Capital Management, a real assets-focused investment firm, has spun off from private equity fund Magnetar Capital with $1.5 billion in assets under its management.
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Colorado utility Mountain Parks Electric (MPE) has inked a 20-year power sales agreement (PSA) with wholesale power provider Guzman Energy.
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The power generation arm of YPF, YPF Luz, is planning to issue up to $60 million in bonds in Argentina.
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Darby International Capital has landed a more than $100 million commitment from several development banks for its DIC Latin American Fund IV (Darby IV).
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Blackstone-owned Tallgrass Energy Partners will offer $400 million aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2029 in a private placement.
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Electricity and power generation company Vistra has received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to acquire Energy Harbor. It is the final approval needed in a $6.3 billion merger that will rebrand Vistra as renewables mega firm Vistra Vision.
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Sustainable infrastructure company Generate Capital is to sell a 13.45% stake in Pine Gate Renewables to the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund (HOOPP), PFR has found.
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Argentine renewable developer Genneia has inked a renewables power purchase agreement (PPA) with agribusiness company Bunge.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added Jason Selfe to its power & utilities team in a business development role.
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Independent power producer (IPP) Urban Grid has hired Eivind Osterhus as chief financial officer and Erica Engle as chief commercial officer.
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Exus Management Partners and Glencore are teaming up to develop renewable projects through their joint venture GenuX in Mexico and Colombia.
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EDP Brasil is extending its existing power purchase agreement (PPA) with Banco do Brasil for an additional 5 years after winning the contract in a December 2023 auction.
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Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) has raised $10 billion at first close of its second energy transition fund with a fundraising target of $17 billion.
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Infrastructure investment manager Homecoming Capital has hired former AB CarVal investor Shaya Greenberger as vice president.
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Chilean utility Colbún has inked a power purchase agreement (PPA) with mining company Antofagasta Minerals’s subsidiary Minera Centinela.
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Giora Salita has joined the executive team of TPG-backed global renewable energy platform Matrix Renewables as chief operating officer based in Miami, Florida.
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Capricorn Investment Group, the $9 billion investor, has made a minority investment in sustainability-focused private equity firm SER Capital Partners.
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Power company Grupo Energisa has launched a R$2 billion ($405 million) share offering in Brazil.
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Renewable developer Atlas Renewable Energy has appointed Iván Jara Carrasco chief operating officer (COO).
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Power company Grupo Energisa is preparing a potential R$2 billion ($405 million) share offering in Brazil.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will begin the first of 8 oil and gas lease sales this year with the auction of 19 Wyoming-sited parcels covering 13,858.91 acres on 5 March.
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Chilean utility Colbún has inked a power purchase agreement (PPA) with port terminal Puerto Angamos and subsidiary Terminal Graneles Norte (TGN) located in the Antofagasta region.
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The renewable energy sector in Chile continued to feel market disruptions in 2023 forcing many financial reorganizations and restructurings throughout the year.
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BlackRock has agreed to acquire Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) for about $12.5 billion in cash and stock, in a move that further consolidates the infrastructure fund market.
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Financial services firm Barclays has launched a new Energy Transition Group in its corporate and investment bank, focusing on renewable and energy transition deals.
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Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), will privately offer $100 million in aggregate principal of 8% green senior unsecured notes.
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Renewables operator ERG has agreed to partner with independent US green power company Apex Clean Energy Holdings to manage and potentially expand a currently operating portfolio of wind and solar projects.
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Blackstone Infrastructure Partners subsidiary BIP Blue Buyer has completed its $2.16 billion acquisition of a 19.9% equity stake in NIPSCO.
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Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has agreed to expand its partnership with AES Andes, growing their shared portfolio from 730MW to more than 1,400MW in Chile.
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Transaction risk insurance broking and advisory firm Birch Risk Advisors has taken on former NovaSource Power Services chief executive officer Troy Lauterbach as renewable energy advisor.
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Canadian investment giant Brookfield acquired Duke Energy’s unregulated utility scale commercial renewables business at an enterprise value of approximately $2.8 billion – a deal that showed they were the exception to the mega M&A rules this year.
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US-based utility and renewable energy developer Allete is contemplating the sale of its business, and has enlisted JP Morgan Chase for the potential sale process.
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Global investment bank Houlihan Lokey has hired former RBC executive Rob Kordas as managing director of its industrials group.
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Grant County, Washington’s Public Utility District No. 2 (Grant PUD) has begun an all-source request for proposals (RFP) to fulfill its supply need of 300MW of firm capacity and energy.
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IDB Invest is preparing an up to $333.5 million debt package to support YPF Luz’s renewable expansion in Argentina.
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Battery storage developer Key Capture Energy (KCE) has hired former EDP Renewables executive Brian Hayes the company’s chief executive, effective January 8, 2024.
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Brazilian development bank BNDES has signed an agreement with the New Development Bank (NDB) , formerly the BRICS Development Bank, that will see the pair invest $1.7 billion into the nation's energy transition.
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Investment firm Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure (HASI) will hold a private offering of $500 million in green senior notes to develop green energy projects.
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Renewables developer energyRe has raised a $1.2 billion capital package to develop and construct its 10.5GW solar, wind, and storage portfolio, as well as 500 miles of transmission.
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The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has launched IDB Clima, a financial initiative to support successful green initiatives across Latin America.
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Brazilian development bank BNDES has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the World Bank to support low-carbon hydrogen initiatives in Brazil.
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Enel is planning to invest $5.7 billion across its core markets in Latin America for the period 2024-2026.
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Rubicon Capital Advisors has hired Justin Snyder as senior director in its New York office where he will focus on advisory opportunities across the North American renewable energy, energy transition and infrastructure sectors.
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UK clean energy investment firm Sustainable Development Capital (SDC) has acquired Volery, a US-based private equity firm focused on energy transition.
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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed the state’s MI Healthy Climate Plan into law following its passage in early November by the House legislature.
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Former DLA Piper US head of energy and natural resources Vanessa Richelle Wilson has joined international law firm Akin’s Washington, DC. office as a partner in the projects and energy transition team.
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AES Dominicana Renewable Energy (ADRE) has secured a $368 million financial package to for the DBFOM of 3 renewable energy projects and to refinance short-term debts.
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