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  • ETS reform could see carbon price treble by 2020, say analysts

    06 May 2015

    The price of EU emission allowances (EUAs) could rise to more than €20 ($22.5) by 2020 from their current level of about €7.5, as a result of an agreement to curb the excess supply of allowances, analysts said.

  • Pattern Energy raises forecast following acquisitions

    07 April 2015

    US yieldco Pattern Energy has raised its predicted growth target for cash available for distribution (CAFD) by up to three percentage points after acquiring stakes in three wind assets.

  • Northland raises $326m debt for Canadian wind

    02 April 2015

    Northland Power has reached financial close on a wind project, raising C$326 million ($258 million).

  • GIB and Ireland's ESB back £190m UK biomass plant

    24 March 2015

    The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) is partnering with Ireland's Electricity Supply Board (ESB) as equity investors in a £190 million ($283 million) biomass power project in the port of Tilbury, near London.

  • Latest renewables yieldco falls flat in first week of trading

    23 February 2015

    A solar and wind yieldco spun out of Spanish infrastructure and energy firm Actividades de Construcción y Servicios Group (ACS) has seen a disappointing start to its life as a listed company.

  • How should the EU carbon market be redesigned?

    04 February 2015

    A Market Stability Reserve (MSR) has been proposed to deal with the oversupply of allowances that has depressed prices and trading activity in the EU emissions trading system (ETS) in recent years. Several designs for the MSR have been proposed, with varying impacts on EUA prices, say analysts at ICIS Tschach Solutions in a new White Paper.

  • Glennmont boosts French wind holdings to more than 100MW

    02 February 2015

    Glennmont Partners, one of Europe's largest clean energy investors, has bought three more operating wind farms in France, taking its wind capacity in the country to more than 100MW.

  • Scatec Solar agrees financing for first Latin American project

    05 January 2015

    Independent power producer Scatec Solar has secured project financing to start building a $125 million plant in Honduras, marking its first move into Latin America.

  • Why heavy industry cannot take emissions trading lightly

    22 December 2014

    With carbon prices in recovery, emissions-intensive industrials need to start taking notice again, argues Philipp Ruf

  • Jigar Shah launches Generate Capital

    05 December 2014

    SunEdison founder Jigar Shah has joined forces with a number of other big hitters in the renewables space to launch what it claims is "the first dedicated resource-efficiency finance company".