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  • Canadian Solar secures C$71.6m construction loan

    22 June 2015

    Canadian Solar has secured a C$71.6 Million ($58 million) non-recourse, short-term construction loan from Deutsche Bank to construct two 10MW solar plants.

  • Sun Power and First Solar announce yieldco IPO price

    19 June 2015

    Sun Power and First Solar have priced shares in their dual-sponsor yieldco, 8point3 Energy Partners, as $21, raising $420 million from its initial public offering today.

  • Toyota issues $1.25bn asset-backed green bond

    19 June 2015

    Toyota has issued its second asset-backed green bond, this time for $1.25 billion.

  • Financials become biggest corporate green bond issuer

    19 June 2015

    Banks have emerged as the biggest corporate issuers of green bonds after a spate of issues this year helped the sector overtake utilities, according to a report.

  • TerraForm Power ups latest fundraising target to $690m

    19 June 2015

    TerraForm Power has increased its target for its latest share offering to $690 million.

  • Asia poised to recharge green bond market, says BAML

    19 June 2015

    Asia is set to kickstart the next wave of growth in the green bond market, say analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), who identify six bonds in the pipeline.

  • Gothenburg names SEB lead bookrunner in third green bond

    19 June 2015

    The City of Gothenburg has mandated SEB as sole lead bookrunner for a six-year SEK-denominated green bond, plans for which were announced by Environmental Finance earlier this year.

  • TerraForm Power to pay down debt with $500m share placement

    18 June 2015

    TerraForm Power is planning to pay off some of its debt by raising $500 million through a share offering.

  • SEK inaugural $500m green bond is first from a European export credit institution

    18 June 2015

    Sweden's Export Credit Institution (SEK) revealed that it has successfully priced its first $500 million green bond.

  • NextEnergy aims to raise up to €500m in yieldco IPO

    18 June 2015

    NextEnergy Capital, the European solar investor, aims to raise up to €500 million ($563 million) by floating a European-focused yieldco.