Posts Tagged ‘infrastructure’
11th March 2010
James Hall-Smith of HSBC discusses the drivers behind the growth of the European renewable energy scene and the opportunities this affords to infrastructure investors and project financiers alike.
‘I think there is an increased interest from a corporate governance and sustainability perspective. This makes many institutions focus on this area. There is also a recognition of the drivers behind environmental infrastructure, from the fundamentals of creating the best opportunity to tackling climate change, whilst also looking to gain energy security and satisfy the social and political drivers.’
2nd March 2010
US renewable energy company Acciona plans to invest around €3.8bn in energy, waste management, R&D and infrastructure between 2010 and 2013, according to its latest strategic plan.
14th January 2010
The US Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the investment of nearly $80m under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for advanced biofuels research and fueling infrastructure that will help support the development of a clean sustainable transportation sector.
6th January 2010
Scotland’s offshore Beauly Denny power line upgrade has been approved. According to the Scottish government, the upgrade will boost grid capacity along the line and unlock Scotland’s onshore and offshore renewables potential.
14th December 2009
JDR Cable Systems, a global provider of subsea power cables, offshore umbilical systems and specialised marine cables, has been awarded the contract for the supply of subsea power array cables for the first phase of London Array Offshore Wind Farm by the project consortium of DONG Energy, E.ON and Masdar.
3rd November 2009
Tiger Infrastructure Partners, a new US infrastructure private equity firm, has launched to take advantage of private mid-market opportunities in North America and Europe in the energy, power, water, waste, transportation and communications sectors.
30th September 2009
Finnish industrial group Ensto and Nordic energy company Fortum have worked together to develop a new type of recharging point for electric vehicles.
29th September 2009
The European Investment Bank is to lend up to €500m to build wind capacity and green power infrastructure in Ireland.
17th August 2009
California’s Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI) has released conceptual transmission plan that evaluates the usefulness of potential transmission lines in accessing and delivering renewable energy. The plan is intended to help enable development and approval of renewable energy infrastructure in ways that minimise the economic cost, environmental impact, and number of new transmission facilities.
14th August 2009
California-based electric vehicle infrastructure company Coulomb Technologies has installed and deployed its networked charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles in Nashville, US.
11th August 2009
Significant increase in M&A activity is expected in the Indian renewable energy sector, as wave of consolidation hits the industry, according to Ernst & Young’s Renewable energy in India - the evolving dynamics report.
6th August 2009
Waste Management has agreed to acquire 40 percent of environmental services group Shanghai Environment Group from Shanghai Chengtou Holding.
3rd August 2009
AXA Private Equity has agreed to acquire Australian infrastructure investor Babcock & Brown’s French wind assets, according to reports. Financial terms were not disclosed.
3rd August 2009
Platina Partners, a London-based private equity group, active in the development, construction and operation of renewable energy projects across Europe, has placed an order with wind energy company Vestas for 41 turbines for the Orites wind energy facility in Cyprus.
31st July 2009
Bulgarian Green Investment Fund, the newly registered, closed-end fund, focused on investments in the development and construction of photovoltaic projects in Bulgaria, is currently seeking a capital increase of €15.5m through initial private placement, to October 2009.
28th July 2009
At this year’s Private Equity and Venture Capital Clean Energy Investor Forum, former CalPERS CIO and founder of green investment firm C Change Investments, Russell Read, highlighted the scale of opportunity for investors in renewable energy and clean technologies.
23rd July 2009
The UK Government has unveiled £1.1bn plans for the first big electrification of the rail network since the late 1980s, involving the London to Swansea and Liverpool to Manchester lines. It will mean the first electric main line trains ever running in Wales.
21st July 2009
European renewable energy developer Reservoir Capital Corp. is to arrange a non-brokered private placement financing of $5m, by the issuance of 8,333,333 units at $0.60 per unit.
17th July 2009
Asset management firm Aviva Investors has appointed Ian Berry as fund manager to head its investments in infrastructure and renewable energy.
17th July 2009
The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a regulation to receive better information on investment projects into energy infrastructure within the EU. The aim is to establish greater transparency on the likely evolution of energy infrastructure in main energy sectors such as oil (including biofuels), electricity and gas, but also in related areas such as the transport and storage of carbon related to energy production.
14th July 2009
European financial services group Rabobank has established a Renewable Energy and Infrastructure Finance team in the Americas, to be headed by newly appointed managing director, Thomas Emmons. Rabobank’s REIF business has teams in Europe, Asia and now in New York, focusing on the Americas region.
13th July 2009
Keewatin Windpower will acquire fellow Canadian wind energy developer Sky Windpower after Keewatin reached a share exchange agreement with Sky shareholders.
1st July 2009
England’s bus fleet will be helped to go green thanks to a new £30m fund to encourage the purchase of low carbon buses. The fund is part of the Department for Transport’s wider strategy to encourage a radical shift to low carbon transport, according to a statement.
30th June 2009
Dedicated alternative energy and cleantech focused investment bank Greentech Capital Advisors has launched, offering a singular focus on alternative energy and cleantech companies.
29th June 2009
Riverstone Holdings, an energy and power-focused private equity firm, has purchased the wind energy development portfolio from Australian asset management firm Babcock & Brown for $400m, forming Pattern Energy Group.
23rd June 2009
Eight new low carbon vehicle projects are set to benefit from a share of £25m of UK Government funding to run real life trials, Science Minister Lord Drayson and Transport Secretary Lord Adonis announced today.
23rd June 2009
Electronics company Siemens expects to win new orders of around €15bn in the next three fiscal years 2010 until 2012, which will be generated by government stimulus programmes already announced around the world. Green technologies are expected to account for 40 per cent or approximately €6bn of this total, which will significantly increase the share of the company’s revenues from its environmental portfolio in the future.
19th June 2009
The EDISON (Electric vehicles in a distributed and integrated market using sustainable energy and open networks) project has recently got underway on the Danish island of Bornholm, and is targeting the development of a smart infrastructure that will alter the extensive adoption of electric vehicles powered by sustainable energy.
19th June 2009
Energy and materials technology advances are likely to be centre stage in the world from an investment and basic research perspective, according to Russell Read, former CIO of CalPERS and CEO of green investment firm C Change Investment, in this presentation originally delivered at the Private Equity and Venture Capital Clean Energy Investor Forum.
16th June 2009
In recent years, both the global and Chiness new energy industries have experienced considerable development, according to Chinese research, consulting and IT outsourcing service provider CCID Consulting. Because of high application costs, the new energy industry has emerged most noticeably in developed countries, such as Germany, Japan and America, though with governmental support, new energy in developed countries will continue to grow.
11th June 2009
European energy policy is seeking to achieve a substantially increased contribution from renewable sources of electricity, and the creation of a pan-European competitive electricity market, according to the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC), which has examined the developments that are required in grid planning, operation and infrastructure to accommodate more renewable sources of electricity and to support a European electricity market.
9th June 2009
Electric vehicle infrastructure company Coulomb Technologies has announced that Walnut Creek, California has become the third Bay Area city to deploy their ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations for electric vehicles.
8th June 2009
US renewable resources company Cadiz, Inc. has executed Letters of Intent (LOI) with a broad collection of Southern California water providers to develop a cost-sharing agreement, finalise terms of pricing, design and capital allocation and work towards implementation of its water conservation and storage project, the company announced.
4th June 2009
US fuel cell and energy storage company Valence Technology, Inc. and Chicago-based electric power company S&C Electric Company have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in which the two companies have agreed to work together to develop and evaluate products for stationary grid-connected electrical energy storage systems.
4th June 2009
In 2008, $155bn was invested in clean energy companies and projects worldwide, not including large hydro, according to a new report from the UN.
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2nd June 2009
Private investment in energy innovation is vital, with commitments also required from corporations and public pension funds going forward, according to speakers and delegates at the NewNet Private Equity and Venture Capital Clean Energy Investor Forum.
2nd June 2009
Swedish energy company Vattenfall and the Volvo Car Corporation have launched an industrial joint venture partnership to introduce plug-in hybrids on the market.
29th May 2009
San Francisco International Airport, is to install a hydrogen fueling station. The station will be open to drivers of fuel cell vehicles and will be used to fuel a fleet of SFO’s shuttle buses as well as the demonstration of San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority’s hybrid transit bus which uses hydrogen fuel cell battery and low sulphur biodiesel technology.
29th May 2009
As financial markets deteriorated in October 2008, Solar Electric Power Association executive director Julia Hamm challenged the solar and utility industries to deploy solar power on a massive scale despite new economic barriers. SEPA, an organisation comprised of over 550 utilities and solar industry members, has also issued a report demonstrating how the industry has responded amidst a tough economic climate.
28th May 2009
The Scottish Government has underlined its commitment to delivering a greener Government, with the publication of its Carbon Management Plan.
27th May 2009
Infrastructure, finance and media giant GE invested $1.4bn in cleaner technology research and development in 2008, up from $750m in 2005. The company has also reduced its own greenhouse gas intensity, and is making progress against its other goals for revenue growth, water and technology innovation, according to a statement.
27th May 2009
Stefano Sommadossi tells us why solar is the horse to back, why social responsibility is key to any investment and which countries hold the most exciting opportunities.
‘We are not interested in markets such as Spain, Portugal and Germany due to over-crowding; they hold little interest for us in terms of the returns. The most interesting places for solar, biomass and wind are now to be found in other countries such as Italy or the eastern Mediterranean.’
12th May 2009
Cleantech companies received markedly less investment in Q1 2009 compared to previous quarters as the global economic downturn caught up with investors across the sector. US venture capital investments in cleantech, as with venture capital overall, dropped sharply in Q1 2009 after a record year in 2008, according to an Ernst & Young analysis based on data from Dow Jones Venture Source. The $277m raised in 24 deals in Q1 2009 represents a 63 per cent decrease in terms of capital and 48 per cent decline in deals compared to Q1 2008.
8th May 2009
Tom Murley discusses institutional investors’ increasing appetite for clean energy funds, which sectors he tends to avoid and the benefits of taking a long-term outlook.
‘We prefer a more conservative approach of classical project finance that has proven over the last 20 years to be resilient in all economic scenarios. As a result our investments are prospering.’
3rd May 2009
Shaun Mays discusses the pitfalls of investing in a growth market, infrastructure in the emerging markets, and creating wealth worth having.
‘This is about investing in the future of our world and in my mind there is no better way to make money than participating in the challenge, and opportunity, of our lifetime.’
28th April 2009
HSBC Specialist Investments Limited, the real estate investment unit of HSBC, has successfully completed the first closing of the HSBC Environment Infrastructure Fund on €117m. The Fund is targeting a total amount of €500m.
27th April 2009
The IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has made a $25m commitment to Asia Environmental Partners, a $250m equity fund focusing on renewable energy and environmental investments.
14th April 2009
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved transmission infrastructure investment rate incentives for a proposed 3,000-mile regional green power superhighway designed to deliver wind-powered renewable energy from the upper Midwest to consumers in and around Chicago, Minneapolis and other load centres.
1st April 2009
US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, energy executive T Boone Pickens and Center for American Progress Action Fund president and CEO John Podesta have released today a letter to US President Barack Obama, thanking him for his leadership to date on clean energy and urging him to, ‘recommit your efforts to rapidly build the infrastructure for a new energy economy - using all the policy and leadership tools at your disposal’.
30th March 2009
According to leading experts from Spain and the US, investment in infrastructure and energy is one of the surest ways to stimulate the economy, create local jobs and help ensure a greener and cleaner future.
