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  • 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.

  • The EIB uses credit enhancement facility in offshore wind loan

    13 February 2015

    The European Investment Bank has agreed a £51 million ($78 million) loan for the world's second largest offshore wind project, using its Project Bond Credit Enhancement Facility.

  • Development banks in initiative to harmonise green bond impact reporting

    13 February 2015

    A number of multilateral development banks (MDBs) are working together to produce harmonised guidelines for reporting the impacts of green bonds, Environmental Finance can reveal.

  • World's biggest sovereign wealth fund discloses divestments

    12 February 2015

    The world's largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway's Government Pension Fund Global, has revealed more details about its divestments as part of a move to "think long-term and protect value for future generations".

  • Trina in convertibles deal with two investors for Chinese solar

    12 February 2015

    Trina Solar has formed an investment partnership with two major with Chinese firms to develop up to 1GW of projects.

  • First-time issuers and IFIs to boost 2015 green bond market, says Morgan Stanley

    12 February 2015

    The green bond market will continue to be boosted this year by first-time issuers, including financial institutions, according to a green bonds specialist at Morgan Stanley.

  • $760m raised by Mainstream for South African wind

    12 February 2015

    Mainstream Renewable Power has closed its $760 million funding round for wind power in South Africa.