09.17.2012 |
By Kennedy Maize
After a slowdown in the first half of 2012, merger activity in the power sector may be heating up again. One surprising target given the current environment: Coal....
07.18.2012 |
By Kennedy Maize
As electric power utilities look ahead, they see the need for major financial investments, but also view a more difficult world in which to raise the needed funds for financing generation and transmission. That’s the conclusion of the 12th annual survey of global power and utility firms by PwC....
07.18.2012 |
By Patrick D. Dolan and Kira N. Brereton
Renewable energy sources have increasingly become a focal point of U.S. regulatory and financial institutions as well as trade associations and legislatures. One area of particular interest is programs that have been established by local and state governments to encourage homeowners to become more energy efficient through the use of Property Assessed Clean Energy (“PACE”) loans....
05.10.2012 | By Kennedy Maize
Scaling back and outright expiration of government subsidies will make financing renewable energy projects more difficult in the future, according to experts at the law firm of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo. But there will still be a greater appetite for renewables than there is supply, so it should still be possible to find the funds to build the projects....
05.10.2012 | By Lewis Milford, Mark Muro, Jessica Morey, Devashree Saha, and Mark Sinclair
Consider state clean energy funds as potential replacement funding sources for future clean energy projects....
05.10.2012 | By Kennedy Maize
Despite a quiet 2011, this year promises to be one of the biggest for power industry mergers in quite some time—if FERC lets it happen....
03.01.2012 | By Chad E. Mills
The energy trading business is changing as Wall Street adjusts to the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. What does that mean to you?...
