After setting a record low for Africa in a previous tender last year, the country is preparing to auction projects as part of a mandate it has granted to a World Bank unit.
A QIA subsidiary has invested $250m in a fund targeting the low-income housing market in the world’s second most populous country.
Having realised about 40% of its debut infrastructure vehicle, the alternatives investment manager is looking to sell all of the fund’s assets by 2019.
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The state is gauging interest from developers and financiers about using the framework to help finance 11 projects along its I-10 Capital Corridor.
The acquisition continues the expansion of Peoples Natural Gas, an affiliate of private investment firm SteelRiver and Pennsylvania’s leading natural gas utility, into Kentucky.
The 20-year concession requires a €305m investment, including a €254m construction loan.
The acquisition of the 44MW wind farm in northern France received debt financing from a French infrastructure fund.
The move comes nearly a year after the two century-old institutions formed a partnership to make co-investments in infrastructure projects.
While Infracapital has previously invested in British ports, the deal represents InfraVia’s first move in the sector.
The Series 5 notes come with a 3.315% interest rate, with proceeds earmarked for the refinancing of existing debt obligations.
The move would represent the listed fund’s first deal outside the onshore wind and solar sectors as it pursues a 20% portfolio diversification strategy.
The country’s two renewables agencies are also working on upcoming funding rounds for energy storage schemes including pumped hydro facilities.
Chinese PPP projects, which typically provide high single-digit returns, are failing to entice private players, fresh research finds.
After one of the Middle East's only dedicated renewable energy funds reached a first close last year, catalyst PE managing director Ennis Rimawi spoke to us about its plans for investment in the region.
The transaction, which brings the firm’s renewables debt portfolio to more than $600m, marks investors’ latest vote of confidence in the once-beleaguered Southern European market.