Greenfield

The £35m investment in WightFibre has also been supported by the firm’s greenfield fund, its third broadband investment.

VTB Capital’s Oleg Pankratov, head of infrastructure capital and project finance, and managing director Alex Moroz look at the growth story of Russian infrastructure investment, with a focus on the potential for further external investment in transport projects.

Netflow, the pair’s joint venture, is in exclusive negotiations with the Victorian government to verify project details as it targets financial close in the coming months.

The fund, targeting £1bn, has added the Leicestershire pension to its ranks as it nears a final close.

ANZ’s Craig Shortus, head of utilities and infra for Australia, and Tsen Wong, director, utilities and infra, institutional banking, tell us what steps Australia should take to improve its energy mix.

A platform launched this year as a key part of Infracapital’s £1 billion ($1.2 billion; €1.1 billion) greenfield fund has added a further 16.1MW of French solar-power capacity to its portfolio. Infram Energy, established by Infracapital and Ireland-based developer Amarenco in January, has signed a long-term debt facility arranged by The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ […]

The Manila-based Asian Development Bank noted the risks in the sector have become more balanced due to US policy uncertainty, geopolitical events and natural disasters across the globe.

China’s supportive policies expected to swell non-fossil fuel capacity, though grid curtailment rates for solar and wind reached record highs last year, according to Moody’s fresh report.

The Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project, aimed at easing congestion on the George Wallace Tunnel, would be Alabama’s first transportation PPP.

More than 4,000 businesses and households with capacity of up to 30KW are eligible to sell their excess energy production to the grid at a regulated tariff rate.