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Enel Green Power, SunEdison and Mainstream are winners in South African auction
10 June 2015Three companies have emerged as the main winners in the latest round of bidding in South Africa's renewable energy auctions, securing over 80% of capacity auctioned.
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Mainstream and Actis form $1.9bn Africa renewables 'platform'
18 February 2015Project developer Mainstream Renewable Power and emerging market private equity firm Actis have teamed up to form a $1.9 billion pan-African renewable energy platform.
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Mainstream commits to develop $525m Ghana wind farm
16 September 2014Mainstream Renewable Power is to develop a $525 million wind farm in Ghana which is expected to generate about 10% of the country's electricity.
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Irish-UK wind deal 'scrapped'
15 April 2014The Irish government has abandoned plans to build 2,300 onshore wind turbines to supply the UK energy market, it has been reported.
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Irish wind plans 'in jeopardy' as link with UK slips away
10 March 2014Plans to build onshore wind farms with up to 8GW of capacity in Ireland are set to be scrapped amid reports that a deal to export clean power to the UK is likely to fall through.
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Mainstream trials innovative weather risk product
05 March 2014Mainstream Renewable Power is piloting a new type of insurance product designed to help protect against the risk that the pre-construction phase of an offshore wind plant is delayed by bad weather.
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People moves
05 March 2014The latest people moves in the environmental markets, including new positions for Ritu Kumar and Yvo de Boer. Stories involve companies such as Actis, KPMG, RBS, F&C, UNEP FI, PRI, Terra Firma, Verco, Sunrun and others.
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Mainstream launches capital-raising arm
12 December 2013Project developer Mainstream Renewable Power has launched a new company designed to raise €2.4 billion ($3.3 billion) of capital from institutional investors.
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8GW of projects make final stage of UK bidding round
04 December 2013A total of 16 projects with a combined generation capacity of 8GW have made it through to the final stage of the UK government's bidding round for subsidies.
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'$100bn of institutional investor capital' available for renewables
20 November 2013Institutional investors have more than $100 billion of uncommitted infrastructure capital that could be invested in renewables, an investment banking group has said.