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  • Conergy in '€100m' UK solar farm deal

    22 November 2013

    Two UK developers have sold five solar farms and have given the buyers the option to purchase an additional four projects, in a deal that could be worth more than €100 million ($134.4 million).

  • Mark Fulton joins CBI to work on green securitisation

    21 November 2013

    Climate investment expert Mark Fulton has joined the Climate Bonds Initiative as a senior fellow working on green securitisation.

  • EDF issues record-breaking €1.4bn green bond

    21 November 2013

    Energy giant EDF has issued the biggest-ever green bond, raising €1.4 billion ($1.9 billion) to fund renewable energy projects in a transaction that was twice oversubscribed.

  • '$100bn of institutional investor capital' available for renewables

    20 November 2013

    Institutional investors have more than $100 billion of uncommitted infrastructure capital that could be invested in renewables, an investment banking group has said.

  • Swiss insurance firm to invest $1bn in green bonds

    19 November 2013

    A Swiss insurance company said it aims to invest up to $1 billion in climate bonds, providing a major boost for the fledgling green bond market.

  • SolarCity's bond to 'open the gates' for solar securitisations

    15 November 2013

    SolarCity's $54 million bond issue will "open the gates" for other solar firms that want to tap the asset-backed security (ABS) markets, and could wipe as much as three percentage points off their borrowing costs, an analyst has claimed.

  • KKR and Google join forces to invest in US solar

    15 November 2013

    Private equity giant KKR has partnered with Google to invest in a portfolio of US solar projects, in a deal understood to be worth $400 million.

  • SolarCity's $54m bond gets BBB+ preliminary rating from S&P

    14 November 2013

    SolarCity's planned $54 million bond issue has been given a low investment-grade preliminary rating by Standard & Poor's.

  • Co-op Bank to spin off £500m renewables lending portfolio

    11 November 2013

    UK banking group the Co-operative Bank is planning to spin off its £500 million ($800 million) renewables lending portfolio through a "fund structure" which could seek a stock market listing.

  • Hong Kong-listed solar firm to buy bankrupt Suntech unit for $492m

    04 November 2013

    A Chinese solar company will pay RMB3 billion ($492 million) to acquire the insolvent manufacturing unit of solar panel giant Suntech.