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Enerjisa 2: Project pool

06 May 2011

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The Enerjisa stage 2 Eu700 million ($975 million) 12-year project financing is back­ed by revenue streams from projects that are already cash generating from the stage 1 financing in 2008. Both deals are part of a wider portfolio financing strategy that has enabled Enerjisa to retain a broad lender base without having exactly the same lenders on every project or multiple projects financed.

It is a hybrid corporate/project strategy where all project revenues go into one account to service debt across the port­folio. Enerjisa retains control of the cash waterfall across the portfolio according to its priorities.

The strategy has paid off. Oversubscribed in syndication at the international level, Enerjisa 2 pulled in tight pricing – only 30bp more over Euribor during construction than Enerjisa 1 in September 2008 – and the majority of the same banks that financed the first Enerjisa deal.

The margin proved too tight for...


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