Africa: no longer a private-power pariah

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African governments have started to scrap policies that have sustained government monopolies over electricity and water supply systems while blocking foreign capital and technology exchange. At the center of the movement are efforts to privatize or seek help from the private sector.

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Hedging strategies: developers find new paths to project finance

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Financial institutions and electric power project developers are adopting new strategies for project finance, spurred by independent power producers' shift away from power-purchase agreements. Their main aim is to strengthen equity investments.

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Finance: insure against takeovers, price spikes, stranded assets

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Insurance firms are competing with Wall Street firms in providing alternative risk-management products for electric utilities. Utilities are concerned about stranded costs, abrupt hikes in energy prices and hostile takeovers.

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