Archive

  • Ecotricity and Skanska in £500m wind partnership

    14 October 2014

    Ecotricity and Skanska have formed a £500 million ($802 million) joint venture to build wind farms in the UK.

  • MidAmerican boosts investments in Iowa wind projects to $6bn

    13 October 2014

    MidAmerican Energy is to commit an additional $280 million to two wind farms in Iowa, taking its total investment in wind energy in the state above $6 billion.

  • John Laing renewables fund secures £50m credit facility

    13 October 2014

    John Laing Environmental Assets Group (JLEN) has agreed a three-year £50 million ($80 million) revolving credit facility with HSBC and Dutch bank NIBC.

  • Brazil's VIS buys Swiss cleantech finance firm and moves to Geneva

    13 October 2014

    Resource efficiency investor VIS has acquired Swiss firm Advanta Capital of Switzerland, a country it describes as an "emerging hub for sustainable finance".

  • Statkraft buys out Duke in Scottish wind farm

    10 October 2014

    Statkraft has bought Duke Energy's equity in a 35MW wind farm in the UK, giving it full ownership of the project.

  • BlackRock agrees £36m deal for UK wind

    10 October 2014

    BlackRock has paid £36 million ($58 million) for two wind farms in the UK.

  • Greenko borrows $125m from EIG for renewables projects

    09 October 2014

    Indian renewables firm Greenko has borrowed $125 million from EIG Global Energy Partners.

  • SunEdison and Terraform buy Hudson Solar's assets

    09 October 2014

    SunEdison has teamed up with its yieldco, TerraForm Power, to acquire a portfolio of assets from a third-party renewables firm.

  • Low-carbon transition to benefit finance system – report

    09 October 2014

    Governments, not private investors, will bear the majority of stranded asset costs caused by efforts to meet climate targets, while a transition to low-carbon energy may boost the finance sector's investment capacity, says research.

  • Canadian Solar secures loan for new plant

    08 October 2014

    Canadian Solar has agreed a C$51 million ($46 million) loan to finance the construction of a solar plant.