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Private equity firm Actis boosts LatAm renewables portfolio
16 May 2017London –based investment firm Actis has bought two wind farms in Brazil, with a combined generating capacity of 346MW, from Brazilian project developer Casa dos Ventos.
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First Pace bonds of the year to raise $444.5m
21 April 2017Ygrene is set to raise $176 million from its first Property Assessed Clean Energy (Pace) bond of the year.
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Green bond round-up, 12 April 2017
12 April 2017Pace finance providers Renovate America and Ygrene are set to issue green bonds this quarter Environmental Finance understands.
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People Moves: Dong, Renovate, GCF
07 April 2017Property-Assessed Clean Energy (Pace) company Renovate America has appointed Paige Wisdom Chief Financial Officer (CFO), replacing Tom Hemmings who is moving to an executive vice president role.
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Renovate targets commercial Pace growth with partnership
14 February 2017Renovate America has partnered with commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (Pace) financer Greenworks Lending to launch a commercial Pace programme.
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The PACE quickens
06 February 2017The market for Property Assessed Clean Energy bonds in the US is booming, with $1.7 billion of issues last year. Joe Walsh investigates the secret to its success and explains why it is being rolled out in other countries.
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Renovate secures $100m from Credit Suisse for energy efficiency expansion
03 February 2017Renovate America has received a $100 million loan from Credit Suisse to expand its unsecured energy efficiency and home improvement loan programme across the US.
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Best performing funds of 2016: Impax Environmental Markets (Ireland) Fund
30 January 2017An uptick in investors' interest in environmental-themed equities, following the Paris Agreement, helped make 2016 a 'vintage' year for the Impax Environmental Markets (Ireland) Fund, reports Hamza Ali
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Cicero is biggest second opinion provider in 2016 - despite bumper year for Sustainalytics
06 January 2017The Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research Oslo (Cicero) was the biggest second opinion provider in the green bond market in 2016, but Sustainalytics is breathing down its neck after signing up more new business than any of its competitors.
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50 shades of green bonds - and 50 ways of assessing them
29 December 2016Ratings agencies have weighed into the green bond market in the past year, adding to the raft of existing tools for assessing bonds. Where is this increasingly crowded marketplace heading, asks Peter Cripps