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  • Equitix takes 80% stake in UK offshore wind transmission system

    17 February 2015

    UK infrastructure investor Equitix has paid construction company Balfour Beatty £40 million ($62 million) for an 80% stake in the transmission system for the Thanet offshore windfarm.

  • EU Carbon market weekly update - 16 February 2015

    16 February 2015

    EU Allowances have entered new price territory, after climbing to a two-year high last week. A further rise above €8 is now possible, says Louis Redshaw.

  • EIB initiatives to stimulate €500m of green private investment

    16 February 2015

    Two initiatives have been launched by the European Investment Bank (EIB) that are expected to trigger more than €500 million ($570 million) in 'green' private investment.

  • Iowa issues $321m green bond to finance water projects

    16 February 2015

    A series of bonds, totalling $321.5 million, has been issued by the Iowa Financing Authority to fund a range of water–related projects in the state.

  • India says Yes to green bonds

    16 February 2015

    One of India's largest private banks has launched what it claims to be the country's first green bond.

  • DNB issues first green bond from Nordic commercial bank

    16 February 2015

    DNB, one of Norway's leading commercial banks, has issued the first green bond by a commercial bank in the Nordic region.

  • Biomass firm taps loan note issue

    16 February 2015

    A biomass company has tapped a loan note issue as part of fundraising programme that is expected to see it regularly return to market.

  • Bluefield Solar makes three acquisitions

    16 February 2015

    Bluefield Solar Income Fund has bought three solar plants in the UK for £54 million ($83 million).

  • Independent Glennmont remains bullish on renewables

    13 February 2015

    Glennmont Partners is one of Europe's largest clean energy investors, having raised €937 million since 2009. CEO Joost Bergsma tells Graham Cooper how the firm – and the market – has evolved.

  • Jupiter Ecology dropped from Hargreaves Lansdown's favourites list

    13 February 2015

    Jupiter's Ecology fund has been dropped from a list of 150 favourite funds compiled by UK investment supermarket Hargreaves Lansdown, which said it had lost its conviction that manager Charlie Thomas can outperform.