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  • Pattern secures C$393m for Canadian wind

    02 July 2015

    Pattern Development has closed C$393 million ($312 million) of financing for a wind project in Canada.

  • Under scrutiny: green bond impact reporting

    01 July 2015

    Issuers' reports on the environmental impact of their green bonds range from a few paragraphs on hard-to-find webpages to 80-page documents. But, given the costs and assumptions involved, some question whether more is necessarily better. Graham Cooper reports

  • 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.

  • Asia poised to recharge green bond market, says BAML

    19 June 2015

    Asia is set to kickstart the next wave of growth in the green bond market, say analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), who identify six bonds in the pipeline.

  • SEK inaugural $500m green bond is first from a European export credit institution

    18 June 2015

    Sweden's Export Credit Institution (SEK) revealed that it has successfully priced its first $500 million green bond.

  • Cleantech Syndicate and CREO merge to form $80bn alliance

    16 June 2015

    CREO Networks and the Cleantech Syndicate have merged to form the CREO Syndicate, an $80 billion network of private investors and family offices.

  • Canadian Solar lands $250m loan for acquisition

    07 May 2015

    Canadian Solar has agreed a $250 million loan with China Minsheng Bank.

  • JP Morgan steals underwriting crown for Q1 green bonds

    29 April 2015

    JP Morgan has been crowned the biggest underwriter of green bonds in the past quarter, taking pole position for the first time.

  • 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.

  • Wind: Project Gemini

    01 April 2015

    Gemini's record-breaking size attracted countless headlines, but the project also broke new ground in the way it was financed.