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Irish renewables firm secures €92m in new funding
02 December 2013Irish renewable energy company Gaelectric has agreed additional financing of €92 million ($125 million) to fund further growth of its activities in wind power and energy storage.
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Offshore wind grid group issues £305m bond with EIB credit enhancement
28 November 2013A company that operates a power connection between an offshore wind farm and the grid has become the first renewables-related bond to receive credit enhancement through a European Investment Bank (EIB) programme.
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Financial close reached for £760m UK waste-to-energy plant
28 November 2013A UK resource management company and its investment partners have signed a £760 million ($1.2 billion) contract with a waste authority for a waste-to-energy project.
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BlackRock, CalSTRS snap up BoA's $500m green bond
22 November 2013BlackRock, California State Teachers' Retirement System and TIAA-CREF were among the investors in Bank of America's first-ever green bond.
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Conergy in '€100m' UK solar farm deal
22 November 2013Two 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).
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Mark Fulton joins CBI to work on green securitisation
21 November 2013Climate investment expert Mark Fulton has joined the Climate Bonds Initiative as a senior fellow working on green securitisation.
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EDF issues record-breaking €1.4bn green bond
21 November 2013Energy 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.
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'$100bn of institutional investor capital' available for renewables
20 November 2013Institutional investors have more than $100 billion of uncommitted infrastructure capital that could be invested in renewables, an investment banking group has said.
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Swiss insurance firm to invest $1bn in green bonds
19 November 2013A 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.
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SolarCity's bond to 'open the gates' for solar securitisations
15 November 2013SolarCity'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.