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  • Foresight lifts acquisition facility to £120m and reduces interest rate

    17 April 2015

    Foresight Solar Fund, one of three London-listed funds dedicated to solar power, has increased the size and improved the terms of its debt facility, which it uses to buy new assets.

  • TRIG to increase equity raise to £102m

    27 March 2015

    The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) has increased the number of shares it expects to sell today to 100 million as a result of strong demand from institutional investors.

  • GIB and Zouk Capital invest in novel £111m energy from waste plant

    23 March 2015

    The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) is investing alongside Zouk Capital in a £111 million ($165 million) project that combines a 12.5MW waste-to-energy plant with an adjacent materials recycling facility.

  • Yieldcos to bolster high-yield green bond market, says expert at Calvert

    16 March 2015

    The renewable energy market's love affair with 'yieldcos' will boost the green bond market this year, according to environmental and social investor Calvert.

  • Foresight Solar raises £36.1m through share issue

    13 March 2015

    Foresight Solar Fund has raised £36.1 million ($53.9 million) through issuing new shares.

  • Comparing the UK's six listed yieldcos

    09 March 2015

    As the UK's six listed renewables funds continue to tap the equity markets, what are the differences between them that investors need to be aware of, asks Peter Cripps

  • UK's first refuse-derived gasification plant wins project finance

    02 March 2015

    A "landmark" deal has secured the first ever project financing for a UK gasification plant that derives its feedstock from refuse.

  • Foresight to raise up to £145m

    19 February 2015

    Foresight Solar Fund plans to return to the equity market early next month, in a move that could see it raise up to £145 million ($223 million).

  • Independent Glennmont remains bullish on renewables

    13 February 2015

    Glennmont Partners is one of Europe's largest clean energy investors, having raised €937 million since 2009. CEO Joost Bergsma tells Graham Cooper how the firm – and the market – has evolved.

  • Foresight hits £130m in waste investment

    28 January 2015

    Infrastructure investment firm Foresight Group said it has invested a total of £130 million ($197 million) in waste-processing projects.