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  • TerraForm Global to offer $800m green bond alongside IPO

    20 July 2015

    SunEdison's latest yieldco, TerraForm Global, will offer an $800 million green bond alongside its IPO on Nasdaq today.

  • ESB Novusmodus and Ludgate exit agritech firm

    16 June 2015

    Two environmentally-themed funds have announced the sale of Lumicity, the agritech energy services provider, to the company's management team and energy giant RWE.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • EU energy, climate change plans get mixed reception

    26 February 2015

    Industry and NGOs have given a mixed reception to the European Commission's new proposals to improve energy security and reduce carbon emissions within the EU.

  • Massachusetts water board taps green bond market

    19 December 2014

    A Massachusetts water body is to launch a green bond for nearly $230 million.

  • UK biomass project lands £110m financing package

    21 November 2014

    A consortium of investors including the Green Investment Bank (GIB) and GCP Infrastructure is to provide more than £110 million ($172 million) of funding for a biomass project in the UK.

  • Masdar invests $125m in Oman's first wind farm

    23 October 2014

    Masdar has entered into a joint venture to build a $125 million wind farm in Oman.

  • MIT issues $370m green property bond

    29 September 2014

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has issued a $370 million green bond to allow it refinance energy efficient buildings.

  • Massachusetts' second green bond issue is heavily oversubscribed

    24 September 2014

    The $350 million sale of green bonds by the state of Massachusetts, announced earlier this month, attracted demand from both retail and institutional investors amounting to more than $1 billion.