October 2002

AES: canal dreams 01 October 2002

AES Panama has closed the country's largest ever private financing. $275 million of limited recourse funds have been raised by a syndicate of local and international banks to back the expansion of the Bayano plant and construction of Eesti facilities. Both are hydroelectric generating plants. The de...

Court case studies 01 October 2002

Can the new approach of the Turkish Constitutional Court save the country's power projects? By Mehtap Y?ld?r?m-Öztürk and S. Sebnem Önder of Çakmak Ortak Avukat Bürosu

Medi, steady, go? 01 October 2002

Egyptian and Tunisian deals are back after a two-year hiatus. But have risk perceptions and structural obstacles changed? By Mary Watkins.

Pars notes 01 October 2002

Iranian state energy companies are slowly moving forward on financing-friendly concession structures, but geopolitics threatens further progress. Earl Scawby looks at the forbidding landscape for projects in the region.

Peaker performance? 01 October 2002

Vanilla project finance structures have returned to the US Power market ? for peaker plants. Could this asset dash leave bankers more exposed? By Tom Nelthorpe.

Power 01 October 2002

InterGen closes peaker financing