Proximocast: Industry News - 29 January

In:

Power, Renewables, Social infrastructure

Region:

Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe , Middle East & Africa

By Naomi Wood

This week, Naomi goes through the top stories across project and infrastructure finance.

The top stories this week across project & infrastructure finance:

- Serica Energy seals $525m facility

- UK pumps extra £1.3bn into Sizewell C to spur private investors

- H2 Green Steel raises over €4bn for Boden plant

- Mayur secures investment for PNG mineral sands project

- BlackRock makes preferred equity investment in Recurrent Energy

- Strata breaks ground on Scatter Wash battery- Further details on NextDecade RCF and interest term loan

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