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July 13 2015

Macquarie Raises $1.1 Billion to Invest in U.K. Power Projects

The money is for the inflation-linked Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Fund, the bank said in an e-mailed statement on Monday. It’s raised a total of 2.5 billion pounds and channeled 342.5 million pounds into ground-mounted and rooftop solar projects and U.K. onshore winds farms. The fund started in March last year, according to the company’s website.

July 10 2015

Correction to Q2 2015 clean energy investment figures

  ** Due to a data upload issue, we initially omitted renewable energy deals that have significant impact on our numbers. Below is the updated, amended release. We regret the error and apologise for any inconvenience. **   Amended figure much stronger for second quarter, with first half of 2015 only slightly down on same period of […]

July 9 2015

Enel in $3.5 Billion Renewables-Supply Deal With Chile’s Endesa

The contract enables Enel to build three clean-energy plants in Chile requiring $800 million of investment, the company said Thursday in a statement on its website. It plans to build its first geothermal facility in the country as well as a wind farm and a solar-power plant. Together they will have a capacity of as much as 300 megawatts.

July 2 2015

SunEdison and Gamesa to Develop 1 Gigawatt of Wind Power by 2018

Each company will own 50 percent of the venture, according to a joint statement Thursday. Gamesa will supply equipment, and build and maintain the wind farms. SunEdison will acquire the finished power plants and sell them to TerraForm Power Inc., its listed partnership for project investments, or yieldco.

July 2 2015

Swiss Developer Buys 12 Clean-Energy Plants Across Europe

The Muenchenstein-based company acquired 26.8 megawatts of solar and wind-energy facilities in France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. The purchases may boost earnings before interest and taxes by at least 2.8 million Swiss francs ($3 million), it said Thursday in a statement without disclosing terms.

June 30 2015

SoftBank Unit to Build 32MW Solar Station in Southwestern Japan

The plant will start running by March 2018 and will produce enough electricity for more than 10,000 homes, SB Energy, the clean energy unit of SoftBank Group Corp., said in a statement Wednesday.

June 30 2015

NextEnergy European Solar Targets $2.2 Billion Value in 4 Years

The fund, which is holding an initial share sale in London, seeks as much as 2 gigawatts of generation capacity, Michael Bonte-Friedheim, chief executive officer and co-founder of NextEnergy Capital, said Tuesday by phone. It remains on course to raise 300 million euros by mid-July, he said.

June 29 2015

Kyocera, Century Tokyo to Build 23MW Solar Power Plant in Kyoto

The plant, to be set up on a former golf course, will start operations in September 2017, Kyocera said in an e-mailed statement Monday.

June 29 2015

Bloomberg Surveillance with Michael McKee & Tom Keene: New Energy Outlook 2015

https://s3.amazonaws.com/first.bloomberglp.com/multimedia/bnef/energy.mp3   Bloomberg Radio’s Michael McKee and Tom Keene sits down with BNEF’s Seb Henbest to talk through our just-published New Energy Outlook 2015. At hand? Power generation over the next 25 years, the rise of small-scale solar and how $12.2 trillion will change everything.

June 29 2015

McCrone: Waking up to 25 years of bewildering change in global power system

Angus McCrone, Chief Editor Bloomberg New Energy Finance   In Woody Allen’s 1973 film Sleeper, the hero – a health food shop owner – wakes up after 200 years in a deep freeze. He is taken aback by many things in the world of 2173, not least as a doctor puts a cigarette in front […]