Welcome to the Proximo daily news podcast for energy and infrastructure finance professionals. Here are today's highlights:

AMS solidifies partnership for solar and storage investment platform

Invanhoe Mines raises cash to finance two mines in the DRC

Ardian is getting close to acquiring 550mn euros worth of wind farm assets

First State Investments closes the largest onshore wind refinancing in Europe to date

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Welcome to the daily news podcast. Here are my top stories for today. 

1) Financial closing reached in Texas onshore wind farm

2) Profits at BNDES are way up compared with 2018

3) BlackRock to acquire Taiwanese solar portfolio

4) Vinci to acquire 50% of Gatwick Airport

5) Germany announces significantly under-subscribed onshore wind tender

Just a quick bite for you today on the Proximo Daily Podcast:

Massachusetts siting board approval for Vineyard Wind transmission

Northland to proceed with 130MW La Lucha solar project

Aquila targets €300m IPO for European renewables fund

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Today on the daily energy and infrastructure finance podcast:

New solar capacity tenders in Iraq worth 755MW

Data centre operator Zayo group to be bought out

Suntrace has found work in Namibian solar

Siemens is spinning off its Gas and Power unit

...and US Exim: is it back in business?

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Today we bring you market moves from Vestas, Citigroup, CPPIB, and NordLB. We also report a new PPA featuring EDP Renewables in Greece, and new funding approved for the Celtic Interconnector project.

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PNM Resources to buy Pattern Development’s Western Spirit transmission project 

Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority has launched an RFP for up to 50MW of solar or solar-plus-storage

Swedish pension fund AP1 has appointed Magdalena Hakansson as head of Sustainable Value Creation

The World Bank has launched the Climate-Smart Mining Facility, the first-ever fund dedicated to making mining for minerals climate-smart and sustainable.

Octopus Energy wind portfolio refi priced; US wind development pipeline increases by 6GW in Q1; North American Infrastructure Partners makes strategic investment in community solar firm Clean Energy Collective; Southern California Edison has changed its investment from a gas project and turned instead toward energy storage projects.

Canadian Solar sells-down Latam assets while courting UKEF; Infrastructure Ontario tweaks P3 model to encourage international firms to set up in canada; Scottish Futures Trust publishes latest five-year infra plan

German railway operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) is looking to offload its UK transport unit Arriva and is inviting expressions of interest in the asset by May 3. 

Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) has appointed Samuel Leupold, former CEO of Orsted Wind Power, to the new position of Chairman of Wind Energy.

Canadian Solar has signed an agreement for the sale of an 80% interest in a 482MW portfolio of contracted solar projects in Brazil to Nebras Power Investment Management BV.

EDP Renewables (EDPR) has signed a sale and purchase agreement to sell its full equity shareholding and outstanding shareholder loans in an operating onshore wind portfolio to institutional investors advised by J. P. Morgan Asset Management for €800 million ($890 million).

One of Peru's flagship infrastructure projects is finally getting the financing it needs after 4 years of waiting. GIP is considering selling the sixth largest Airport in the UK - Edinburgh Airport. The World Bank is lending $45m to the Central African Republic to help build a solar power plant near its capital city, Bangui.

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