Norwegian renewables provider Scatec has made the first drawdown of a non-recourse loan facility to partly finance a 531-megawatt solar project in Brazil.

Asian Development Bank and SAEL Industries Limited have signed loan agreements of up to 7.5 billion rupees (US$91.14 million) to promote the generation of biomass energy using agricultural residue in a bid to further diversify India’s energy mix and reduce carbon intensity.

Romania's Nuclearelectrica and Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on the potential development and expansion of nuclear energy programmes in the United Arab Emirates and Romania, as well as within central and eastern Europe.

Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed a US$396 million project loan agreement in project financing with Enersok Foreign Enterprise for a natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Uzbekistan.

Daewoo Engineering & Construction has signed a US$790 million agreement with General Electricity Company of Libya to build gas-fired power stations in the Mellitah and Misurata regions.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved a €300 million (US$321 million) financing package to help support Serbia’s electricity sector.

KfW Ipex-Bank is contributing €40 million (US$42.8 million) to a €400 million debt facility for Allego, a pan-European charge-point operator, to fund a pipeline of contracts and expand its network of ultra-fast electric-vehicle chargers across key sites in Germany, France and Benelux.

A fund managed by BlackRock is acquiring a stake in a 310-megawatt wind farm in Kenya, the largest in the African continent. The stake in Lake Turkana Wind Power Limited (LTWP), which owns and operates the wind farm, is held by the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation (Finnfund). The fund, a development financier and impact investor, has been a shareholder in LTWP since construction of the wind farm began in 2014.

Keppel Corp has reached a long-term power purchase and export agreement with Cambodia’s Royal Group Power to buy electricity from Cambodia and Laos. Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) has conditionally approved long-term imports and sales of one gigawatt of low-carbon electricity from renewable energy sources by wholly owned unit Keppel Energy, Keppel says in a statement.

The Philippines' largest integrated telco PLDT on March 16 announced a new tower sale and leaseback transaction by its subsidiaries Smart Communications and Digitel Mobile Philippines involving 1,012 telecom towers and associated passive telecom infrastructure. The company signed a sale and purchase agreement with Frontier Tower Associates Philippines for over 12.1 billion pesos (US$221.20 million).

American carrier Southwest Airlines has agreed to purchase over 400,000 carbon credits from SMBC Aviation Capital.

Greek utility Public Power Corporation (PPC) has agreed to acquire all of the equity interests held by Italian energy giant Enel and its subsidiaries in Romania for €1.26 billion (US$1.35 billion).

BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, Citibank, HSBC, and JPMorgan Chase have signed a debt package for the first phase of the Sal de Oro lithium brine project in Argentina. The Sal de Oro lithium brine project is one of the most important lithium brine projects in Argentina, and is being developed by South Korea’s Posco, one of the world’s largest steel manufacturers.

Japan’s Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI) is providing insurance for commercial bank loans extended to Red Sea Wind Energy, a project company building a 500-megawatt wind farm in Egypt. This is the first co-financing between NEXI and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) based on a memorandum of understanding signed in 2020.