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Renewables project finance enthusiasts flocked to REFF Wall Street 2021 last week for two days of non-stop networking and panel discussions, after being deprived of conferences for over a year-and-a-half due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Renewables project finance enthusiasts flocked to a secluded conference center in midtown Manhattan earlier this week for REFF Wall Street 2021, after being deprived of events to attend over the last year-and-a-half. PFR editor Taryana Odayar and reporter Alfie Crooks were on site to catch the goings-on.
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While some debt investors have grown increasingly comfortable financing merchant solar assets over the last few years, many market watchers at REFF Wall Street 2021 remain unconvinced that the attractive yields to be gained by taking on merchant exposure outweigh the associated risks.
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Conference goers at REFF Wall Street 2021 in New York this week applauded the tremendous volume of investments in the renewables space over the last year-and-a-half, despite the disruption wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, but some warned that there could be "surprises down the road" as a result of the rapid buildout of the asset class.
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Wind sponsors look poised to favor a "more equitable" direct-pay structure following the approval of a portion of the Democrats’ proposed $3.5 trillion spending package by the US House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee, which could alter the tax equity landscape, say insiders at REFF Wall Street 2021.
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NordLB's Sondra Martinez, CohnReznick Capital's Conor McKenna, Convergent Energy + Power's Frank Genova and Kirkland & Ellis's Brian Greene discuss the latest developments in the energy storage market.
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Colombia has set the dates for the country’s second renewable auction, which it first announced in November.
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IJGlobal’s famed Latin America conference took place virtually on September 15 and 16 this year, after the event originally scheduled for March in Miami had to be canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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As developers phase out their coal-fired assets in Chile and replace them with renewable projects, sponsors' market shares could change, say attendees at IJLatam 2020, IJGlobal's Latin America energy and infrastructure conference.
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Despite Mexico's regulatory changes in the power market in the past few months, industry insiders claim that the market may have slowed down but is not closed.
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The US International Development Finance Corporation is considering deploying equity in Latin America, as it has done previously in other regions such as Southeast Asia.
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Power purchase contracts with non-utility corporate offtakers are growing in popularity in Latin America but remain an exception to the norm in project finance, said industry insiders at IJLatam 2020, IJGlobal's Latin America energy and infrastructure conference.
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Power Finance & Risk brought together a panel of experts to talk through the changing dynamics of California’s sun-soaked power market and the impact for project financiers. Leaders from Strata Solar, CleanCapital, Capstone Headwaters and Solar Frontier Americas talked through PG&E’s restructuring, pricing of battery storage debt and much more.
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Back to back panels early on Day 1 of the REFF Wall Street 2019 conference at the Intercontinental Barclay in New York highlighted that despite the phase downs in federal renewables tax credits, the tax equity majors still the keys in the capital stack.
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As the first step-down in the investment tax credit for solar looms, developers have begun to sound out banks for loans for panels and inverters that would safe harbor the equipment for the full incentives.
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Despite rumblings about overbuild in PJM Interconnection, developers are pushing ahead with new build gas-fired projects there, and lenders stand ready to finance them. The only thing missing, it seems, is equity.
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A panel of project finance professionals set about imagining the post-tax credit future of renewables financing at the S&P Global Platts Global Power Markets conference in Las Vegas this week, conjuring up a landscape of high yield debt and mezzanine capital supported by merchant wind and solar cashflows.
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Gusts of up to 46 mph in Las Vegas this week did not dampen the spirits of attendees of the S&P Global Platts 34th Annual Global Power Conference, but did put paid to plans for open air cigar parties. PFR editor Richard Metcalf and reporter Taryana Odayar were on hand to chronicle the action, inside and outside the conference hall.
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As representatives of developers, banks, investment firms and service providers descend on Las Vegas for S&P Global Platts’ 34th Annual Global Power Markets Conference, PFR takes a look at what to expect.
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In October, PFR teamed up with Fitch Ratings and Orrick to host a candid discussion on the challenges and opportunities for financing America’s nascent offshore wind industry. Experts covered everything from debt pricing to offtake structures and the full report is in this week’s issue.
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