Archive

  • Abengoa sells solar projects to its yieldco for €277m

    27 July 2015

    Infrastructure developer Abengoa has sold two Spanish solar thermal projects, in a deal worth €277 million ($307 million), to its US-listed yieldco, Abengoa Yield.

  • Abengoa Yield bags $290m additional credit

    20 July 2015

    Abengoa Yield has upped its existing credit facility by $290 million to buy more renewables assets.

  • Abengoa and Shikun & Binui secure $1bn financing for Israeli solar plant

    20 July 2015

    Abengoa and Israeli global infrastructure group, Shikun & Binui, have secured $1 billion in non-recourse financing, for the construction of an Israeli solar-thermal plant.

  • People Moves

    10 July 2015

    A round-up of the latest new appointments and moves in the industry, including changes at Senvion, Hannon Armstrong and Abengoa

  • Pattern Energy adds 526MW of Japanese and New Mexican projects to ROFO list

    24 June 2015

    Pattern Energy has announced that it is adding 526MW of capacity to its 'right of first offer' (ROFO) assets, including 128MW in Japan and 398MW in New Mexico.

  • Building out the yieldco

    22 June 2015

    With more yieldcos expected to come to market in coming months, how will this asset class evolve, asks Sophie Robinson-Tillett

  • Sun Power and First Solar announce yieldco IPO price

    19 June 2015

    Sun Power and First Solar have priced shares in their dual-sponsor yieldco, 8point3 Energy Partners, as $21, raising $420 million from its initial public offering today.

  • EU bioethanol sector optimistic despite 'damaging' 2014

    17 June 2015

    Optimism has returned to the EU's bioethanol sector after a "damaging" year blighted by policy uncertainty and falling prices.

  • World's first ETF for yieldcos launched

    03 June 2015

    The world's first exchange-traded fund (ETF) dedicated to yieldcos has been launched in a sign of the asset class's growing maturity.

  • Abengoa's Sanchez Ortega quits, prompting reshuffle

    19 May 2015

    Manuel Sanchez Ortega has resigned as CEO of Abengoa and as chair of its yieldco Abengoa Yield (ABY) for "strictly personal reasons", prompting a rapid management shake-up at both companies.