Dulles Airport P3 attracts interest

The desperate data centre search for baseload power and a lack of turbines is promoting new financing structures. Debt is being sought earlier in the financing process with new deals hitting the market. By Nic Stone.

Gulf Development has secured a jumbo blended financing to finance 939MW clean energy portfolio. The significant backing of DFIs reflects robust confidence in clean energy solutions. By Minerva Lau.

AR7a saw a record number of onshore wind and solar schemes awarded, detailed here. This follows on from 8.4GW for offshore wind last month. By Rod Morrison.

The renewables debt market goes from strength to strength. Banks and institutional investors remain active and willing buyers. But underneath, there are signs of stress, particularly among the pure developers. It is reported the market is dramatically changing for the worse as developers race to become independent power producers backed by solid cashflows.

The era of voluntary targets is over. As India’s Carbon Credit Trading Scheme financialises emission reductions, financing needs to evolve from standard corporate facilities to hybrid sustainability-linked project finance structures. By Narayan Subramaniam, senior vice-president, SBI Capital Markets Limited.

The rapid digitalisation of the economy and public services, the growth of AI workloads driving steep increases in computing and storage demand, and the energy transition – with its rising requirements for efficiency, renewable integration, and environmental transparency – are transforming how the European Union’s digital infrastructure is designed, sited and operated. By A&O Shearman in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and France. *