Proximo Weekly: The LPO returns for Monolith
The US Department for Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) is back in signing mode again and has approved a conditional loan guarantee for Monolith – its first since 2016.
The US Department for Energy’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) is back in signing mode again and has approved a conditional loan guarantee for Monolith – its first since 2016.
The first high volume community choice aggregator (CCA) clean energy project revenue bond financings recently closed in California. Valued at a combined $2 billion-plus,...
With a considerable number of headwinds expected to push up the cost of US project debt in 2022, last year was probably the year to refinance.
Gordon Stewart and Tom Jamieson, London-based partners at Bracewell, discuss the evolving market for providing balancing services to electricity grids with merchant...
Although not the first utility-scale wind project to be awarded in Uzbekistan, the Nukus wind project could prove to be the pathfinder for future wind tenders and...
A new revenue model for UK nuclear looms. But will what has worked in UK water work for assets that suffer big cost overruns?
The multi-currency financing for the Canal Sugar Project, a scheme that combines land reclamation for a farm roughly three times the size of Luxembourg with a beet...
Will LBP be the first of many banks to totally withdraw from fossil fuels lending? And what will that mean for a controlled energy transition?
Chilean toll road bond financings are a staple. But towards the end of 2021 Sacyr closed the first mini-perm financing for a Chilean toll road – Camino de la Fruta. Is...
VIEW ON DEMAND: Non-payment insurance may help expand the lender universe for long-dated renewables transactions and help fuel the energy transition
FREE TO VIEW ON DEMAND: Proximo's team of webinar regulars review the year's most important trends in their inimitable draft format.
Can direct air capture of carbon succeed where carbon capture at power stations has so far failed?
Allego has pulled off a second EV charging project funding first and got better debt margins and tenor second time around. But don’t expect a rush of hungry project...
The $1.2 trillion US Infrastructure Bill still leaves a major chasm to bridge between government funding availability and demand. Two recent deals hint at where some of...
'Phasing down' of fossil fuels, rather than out, was arguably the biggest failure of COP26. Measures like the ADB-led Energy Transition Mechanism are looking at...
The approximately NT$75 billion ($2.67 billion) non-recourse multi-tranche holdco financing backing the acquisition of CDPQ and Cathay Private Equity’s 50% interest in...
The Proximo US Power & Renewables Finance 2021 conference in Austin, Texas, last week marked a long-awaited return to in-person events and some interesting predictions...
The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) took centre stage at COP26. Although initiatives like GFANZ will unlock further capital for green infrastructure,...
Predicting the full impact of the Biden Bill on all new US infrastructure is still very much a speculative endeavour, but there are some certainties that can be drawn for...
The spike in natural gas prices has provided a big boost to the developers of a new wave of Australian LNG projects. But emissions concerns are going to be a bigger...
Low-income household energy projects in Africa are increasingly being financed via securitisation structures. The deals are relatively small, but the impact could prove as significant as new large-scale generation projects.