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Framed in KETRACO’s efforts to improve its financial stability, to attain self-sufficiency and to obtain monitoring tools which can provide reliable financial projections, to be used by the company and to be presented to third parties, specifically, to financial institutions. MRC has assisted the company in developing an investment and financing strategy that allows theRead more

Development of renewable energy projects beyond traditional regulatory scheme and periodic auctions organized by the Spanish authorities is boosting. Apart from conventional alternatives to develop renewable energy, available options for commercializing this energy in the market mostly focused on power self-generation and possible bilateral contracting (PPAs’) with end consumers. Broadly, we can characterize the optionsRead more

The current Government in Brazil has been making its way through privatization plans in the energy and other infrastructure sectors (water & sanitation, roads, ports, airports, oil and gas) since launching its investment partnership program (PPI) in September 2016. Divestment of the government-owned electricity company – Electrobras – has been a main target of theRead more

The Volta River Authority (VRA) has been the backbone of power generation in Ghana for over 50 years. Its two major hydropower plants – Akosomobo and Kpong generation stations –  provided much of the country’s power until persistent drought conditions forced the development of its first thermal facility in 1997, a 330MW tri-fuel Combined CycleRead more

Managing FX risk in energy sector investments in developing countries. Traditionally, developing economies relied on “hard currency”, that is a strong currency such as the USD or the Euro, to fund and pay investments in their energy sector. First, because most equipment is imported and paid in “hard currency”, and second, because the funds (equityRead more