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  • Danish pension fund invests in wind project through export credit agency

    11 December 2013

    Pension fund PFA has invested DKK240 million ($45 million) in an Irish wind farm through Danish export credit agency EKF.

  • French infrastructure investor buys stake in offshore wind farm

    06 December 2013

    A French infrastructure investor has made its first investment in offshore wind, acquiring a 7.5% stake in the German Butendiek project.

  • Derisking renewables

    05 December 2013

    A cocktail of risks has hampered investment in low-carbon technologies. Public-backed guarantees, among others, should increasingly be used to help the capital flow, argues Gianleo Frisari

  • Mainstream group wins 360MW wind contracts in South Africa

    30 October 2013

    A consortium led by Ireland's Mainstream Renewable Power is poised to invest ZAR 9 billion ($913 million) to develop three new wind farms in South Africa with a combined capacity of 360MW.

  • Novel finance structure could help institutional investors back renewables

    18 September 2013

    An innovative financing structure that enabled a Danish pension fund to help finance a wind farm has the potential to encourage further institutional investor backing of renewables projects, according to a research paper.