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  • Aviva agrees long-term finance facility for UK yieldco

    27 September 2016

    Aviva Investors has agreed to provide long-term financing for Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF), a London-listed investment company focussing on large-scale industrial and agricultural solar assets.

  • EF BRIEFS: EDP Renováveis, RBS, Avantium, Atlantis, Quercus

    20 April 2016

    EDP Renováveis has sold a stake in a European wind portfolio in a deal worth €550 million ($626 million).

  • Greencoat UK Wind plans £300m equity raise

    14 April 2016

    Greencoat UK Wind revealed plans to sell up to £300 million ($430 million) of shares over the coming year, as it eyes an "attractive" pool of assets that it expects to come up for grabs.

  • HSBC tightens pricing 'significantly' on first green bond as order book hits €2.1bn

    27 November 2015

    HSBC France has seen huge demand for its inaugural green bond, enabling it to tighten pricing "significantly" on the deal.

  • Banking sector needs 'radically different approach' to sustainability, says KPMG

    30 June 2015

    The European banking sector must adopt a "radically different approach" to sustainability, KPMG has warned.

  • Foresight lifts acquisition facility to £120m and reduces interest rate

    17 April 2015

    Foresight Solar Fund, one of three London-listed funds dedicated to solar power, has increased the size and improved the terms of its debt facility, which it uses to buy new assets.

  • Waste Management prices $1.8bn of notes

    20 February 2015

    A waste management firm that generates 550MW of energy from gas has priced $1.8 billion of senior notes.

  • Bluefield Solar succeeds in £160m equity raise

    14 November 2014

    Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF) has completed its placement of more than 150 million shares, raising some £160 million ($251 million).

  • Bluefield opens £150m equity raise, lines up projects

    03 November 2014

    Bluefield Solar Income Fund (BSIF) has lined up a further pipeline of projects it wants to buy as its plans to raise £150 million ($239.9 million) of equity took a major step forward.

  • RBS agrees £28m project financing for UK's Lightsource

    22 October 2014

    UK solar energy developer Lightsource Renewable Energy has secured £28.4 million ($45.6 million) of project financing from Royal Bank of Scotland for three installations totalling 34MW.