The attractiveness of the UK renewables market has decreased dramatically in the eyes of investors and developers, falling back to levels last seen in November 2012, according to EY's latest Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI). The quarterly report, which ranks the investment potential of 40 countries' renewables markets, has ranked
Ingenious Clean Energy, a division of UK investment and advisory group Ingenious, has completed the financing of a GBP27m portfolio of three solar parks, including a GBP15m loan from Barclays. The solar parks are in Somerset, Dorset and Hampshire and are owned by three companies in the Ingenious Renewable Energy
Sunrun has raised USD150 million in equity financing, the largest private equity raise for a private residential solar company in the US. A public institutional investor led the round with a USD100 million investment. Existing and new investors provided the remaining USD50 million. Sunrun will use the funds
Laser radar remote sensors (LIDAR) specialist Leosphere has finalised the second tranche of a EUR20 million equity transaction. The second tranche was closed with Electranova Capital, the venture capital fund managed by Idinvest Partners and sponsored by EDF, the world’s second largest utility company. The first tranche of EUR10.5
Impax has closed the project financing of the Joukhaisselkä wind park in Northern Finland with Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) and has completed the acquisition of the Kuolavaara-Keulakkopää wind park from Fortum and Metsähallitus. The Kuolavaara-Keulakkopää wind park is located in the Kittilä and Sodankylä municipalities and is the second project
Ingenious Clean Energy and energy efficiency solutions company Anesco are to collaborate on a major energy efficiency upgrade for a secondary school in Dorset. AESSL, an energy efficiency services company backed by the Ingenious Energy Efficiency EIS Fund, has invested GBP2m in the project, which will transform the energy efficiency
GE Energy Financial Services has made its first equity investment in Ireland’s wind power market by acquiring two wind farm construction projects that will be powered by the GE’s flagship 2.85MW wind turbines. With a combined capacity of 51 megawatts, the wind farms, acquired from Element Power and now under
Private equity fund manager Kerogen Capital has published its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Policy Statement. The statement details the company’s commitment to good governance, to high environmental standards and to positive engagement on social issues. Kerogen believes that adherence to ESG principles is a central commercial priority in
Wildlife Works Carbon has signed a USD10m financing deal with the Althelia Climate Fund to launch the Taita Hills Conservation and Sustainable Land Use Project in south-eastern Kenya. The project aims to protect approximately 200,000 hectares of threatened natural forest and savannah grassland ecosystems and bring vital economic development benefits
CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution (DFI), has appointed Ritu Kumar as director, environmental and social responsibility. Kumar (pictured) will work across the environmental and social remit with a specific focus on CDC’s direct equity investments, as well as the environmental and social performance and value-add of CDC’s investments
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