Renewables

With state energy ministers meeting on 22 November – just a day after the Australian Energy Market Commission decides whether to amend rules on Marginal Loss Factors – the market is hoping for much-needed clarity around investment decisions.

Following a growth spurt in 2016-17, there are signs the market might be overheating. But demand is expected to remain strong as countries address the challenges. 

The transaction marks the energy company’s second investment in a Macquarie Capital-backed offshore wind project in Taiwan.

The partnership has secured $100m from a Korean investment bank and will seek to raise an additional $100m from North American investors.

The greenhouses will be heated by waste heat from nearby water treatment facilities and result in a 75% carbon footprint reduction.

The European renewables subsidy flip-flops earlier in the decade foreshadowed a market transition that is now playing out in full. 

The objective is to build eNordic into a €3bn holding with a generation capacity of 1.6GW over the next five years.  

The group, which counts BlackRock, John Laing and Macquarie among its members, says that the current MLF regime can ‘materially impact’ investor returns in unforeseen ways.

Britain's offshore wind industry has come of age at a startling rate and presents new market dynamics for the sector.

Infrastructure debt has become an intensely competitive area of the alternative credit market with banks and insurance companies crowding into the space.