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Aug, 2024

By Nick Flitterman

Portland Advisers undertaking financial advisory role for the Vulcan Energy, Zero Carbon Lithium Project

Portland Advisers undertaking financial advisory role for the Vulcan Energy, Zero Carbon Lithium Project

Portland Advisers is pleased to be engaged to provide independent financial advisory services to Export Credit Agencies in support of the project financing of the Vulcan integrated renewable energy and Zero Carbon Lithium™ Project located in Germany. Vulcan aims to be the largest, strategic producer and supplier of lithium chemicals and renewable energy from Europe for Europe, empowering a net zero carbon future.

Vulcan will be a fully integrated renewable energy and lithium company with access to the largest lithium resource in Europe, becoming the first fully domestic sustainable lithium producer in Europe. The project will produce both renewable geothermal energy for heat and power and battery-grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM) for Electric Vehicles (EV) batteries, from the same deep brine source in Germany’s Upper Rhine Valley.

Vulcan intends to produce 24,000 tonnes of LHM per annum that could equip 500,000 EVs. The company has binding lithium offtake agreements with some of the largest cathode, battery, and automakers in the world, including Stellantis, Renault, VW, Umicore and LG Energy Solution. The Project is expected to have a substantial positive environmental impact as Vulcan will use zero fossil fuels in its LHM production process.

Portland Advisers will provide its extensive global expertise in advising on energy & resources value chains globally to support this first-of-its-kind energy transition project financing in Europe.

For further information, contact Grant McKeown at grant.mckeown@portlandadvisers.com or +44 7916 147640

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Sep, 2021

By Nick Flitterman

Nick Flitterman hosts panel for SSPI/GVF on the future for UK Space

Nick Flitterman hosts a special panel on the UK Space Landscape

Portland’s Head of Telecoms, Nick Flitterman, hosted a distinguished panel, sponsored by GVP and SSPI UK, discussing the UK Space Landscape which included sharing of views on the newly published UK National Space Strategy. The panel included the Rt Hon Mark Garnier, MP fo Wyre Forest and Vice Chair of the Parliamentary Space Committee, Chris McGlaughlin of OneWeb and Anthony Baker, CEO of newly financed SatelliteVu.

Watch the webinar in full by clicking here

And you can find the newly published UK Government National Space Strategy here.

For further information, contact Nick at nick.flitterman@portlandadvisers.com or +44 7973 481330

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Sep, 2021

By Nick Flitterman

Portland Contributes to Financing Net Zero at SPE Offshore Europe

Portland Contributes to Financing Net Zero at SPE Offshore Europe

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) held its Offshore Europe Conference & Exhibition at the start of September. Portland’s Ian Cogswell contributed to the content of a presentation made by the Financing Net Zero group, addressing the technology risk for financial investments in the energy transition. The presentation, which was made on behalf Financing Technology to Net Zero UK by Andrew Smith of Deja Blue Consulting, can be viewed here .

For further information, contact Ian at ian.cogswell@portlandadvisers.com or +44 20 7183 8214

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Aug, 2021

By Nick Flitterman

Portland A Thought Leader in Clean Tech Financing

Portland A Thought Leader in Clean Tech Financing

Portland’s Ian Cogswell has this month published an article on the challenges associated with the financing and deploying of new clean technology. It has featured in the summer edition of “Energy Focus”, the periodical of the Energy Industries Council (EIC). The article can be found by clicking here or on the EIC and Energy Focus websites shown below.

Portland Advisers is a proud member of Financing Technology to Net Zero UK ( FTech2Zero), a multiorganizational network of industry experts, who have been drawn together to develop a white paper recognizing the challenges associated with financing and deploying novel technology, raising awareness, and assessing the solutions that can be adapted by both financial institutions and technology providers alike.

Energy Focus on EIC website can be found here.

The Energy Focus article can be found directly here.

For further information, contact Ian at ian.cogswell@portlandadvisers.com or +44 20 7183 8214

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Mar, 2021

By Nick Flitterman

Portland assists in the drive to Net Zero

Portland assists in the drive to Net Zero

In October 2020, Portland’s Ian Cogswell participated in a workshop entitled Working Back from Net Zero. The “Financing Net Zero” group that met during the workshop has continued to meet and formed a network, FTech2Zero, a multiorganizational network of industry experts, who have been drawn together to develop a white paper recognizing the challenges associated with financing and deploying novel technology, raising awareness, and assessing the solutions that can be adapted by both financial institutions and technology providers alike.

With less than 30 years to deliver the UK’s Net Zero ambitions it is critical to focus on measures to accelerate deployment of the technologies which are necessary to deliver net zero goals. Current estimates state that the required investment to create an integrated energy system on the UKCS alone requires investment of approximately £430 billion. It is therefore imperative that any initiative is attractive to a broad range of financial investors.

FTech2Zero has produced a survey to collect voices from the entire energy value chain to help broaden our understanding of what is needed to truly move the dial on financing net zero. The group would greatly appreciate your input on this topic via this 10-minute survey. With this survey, we are trying to collect voices from the entire energy value chain to help broaden our understanding of what is needed to truly move the dial on net zero financing.

You can also join us at the forthcoming virtual roundtable, Financing Technology to Net Zero on 7^th April to discuss the survey as we form a better understanding of the current state of investment in novel technologies, as well as how companies are reacting to this transformational issue.

Please Register FREE here, it only takes a minute.

For further information, contact Ian at ian.cogswell@portlandadvisers.com or +44 20 7183 8214

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Mar, 2021

By Nick Flitterman

Ian Cogswell to present at the 4th AAPG Geothermal Cross-Over Workshop

Ian Cogswell to present at the 4th AAPG Geothermal Cross-Over Workshop

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) is hosting a geothermal cross-over workshop to explore ways of harvesting the technical, environmental and commercial synergies between the oil & gas and geothermal sectors. The workshop will discuss experiences, best practices and knowledge on how to get the best from both the oil & gas sector and the geothermal sector, in order to both accelerate and improve the quality of the geo-energy transition.

On Day 3 of the event, during the session focussing on business synergies, Portland’s Ian Cogswell will present his thoughts on how Project Finance techniques used in the oil & gas sector can be applied to support the development of geothermal projects.

More details and the full workshop program can be found by clicking the link below.

AAPG Geothermal Crossover Workshop

For further information, contact Ian at ian.cogswell@portlandadvisers.com or +44 20 7183 8214

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Mar, 2021

By Nick Flitterman

Krauze gives his views on Digital Infrastructure financing trends

Jacek Krauze provides expert perspective on Digitial Infrastructure financing

Continuing Portland’s close relationship with the team at Proximo, Jacek Krauze – Portland’s lead on Digitial Infrastructure financing – offered his thoughts on the FTTH market and financing trends in the latest article covering this critical area of the telelcom infrastructure market. You can read the article by clicking on the link below.

Proximo Article – FTTH: Rocks and Roll Out

For further information, contact Jacek at jacek.krauze@portlandadvisers.com or +44 20 7183 8398

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Dec, 2020

By Nick Flitterman

Ian Cogswell joins the annual Proximo Festive Trends Round-up – Listen Live on 17th December!

Join Portland’s Ian Cogswell for the annual Proximo Festive Trends Round-up on 17^th December

What a year 2020 has been. An unforeseen pandemic, economic collapse, and likely changes to business models for many energy and infrastructure players are just the highlights, if that is the right word. For sponsors and banks struggling to keep businesses operating smoothly, lockdown will not have meant a slower pace of life. But the market has continued to absorb transactions (and banks process to waivers!). In some respects, the world has changed immensely. In others, life goes on as before. Some of the greatest challenges of the 21st century – mitigating climate change and ensuring the world’s infrastructure supports continued development – remain.

To try and make sense of the year, and think about where 2020’s events might lead us, Proximo is inviting back its longest-serving regulars, including Portland’s Ian Cogswell, to talk through the last 12 months and ponder where the next 12 months might take us. Joining the panel alongside Ian will be Tom Nelthorpe, contributing editor of Proximo (moderator); Michael Whalen, managing director at Berkeley Research Group; and Jonathan Yellen of Yellen & Co.

Tune in at 3pm (UK) on Thursday 17^th December. More details can be found at

Proximo Festive Trends Round-up – 17th Dec 2020

For further information, contact Ian at ian.cogswell@portlandadvisers.com or +44 20 7183 8214

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Dec, 2020

By Nick Flitterman

Cogswell joins Proximo’s Weekly Podcast – an oil and gas sector Covid-19 special

Ian Cogswell joins Proximo’s Weekly Debrief to discuss the oil and gas sector in relation to Covid-19

The Proximo Weekly Debrief provides the latest news from the global infrastructure and energy finance sectors. This week, Portland’s Ian Cogswell was asked to discuss the impact of Covid-19 on the oil and gas sector. Topics included the greatest challenges the industry has faced as a result of the pandemic; how the sector has tried to adapt; forecast for a recovery in 2021; and highlighting the most significant deals of 2020. Listen to the podcast at

Proximo Weekly Podcast 30 Nov 2020 – Ian Cogswell

For further information, contact Ian at ian.cogswell@portlandadvisers.com or +44 20 7183 8214

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Oct, 2020

By Nick Flitterman

Ian Cogswell contributes to Siemens Energy’s “Working Back from Net Zero” workshop and the Energy Knect Expert Insight Newsletter

Ian Cogswell contributes to Siemens Energy’s “Working Back from Net Zero” workshop and the 1^st Edition of the Energy Knect Expert Insight Newsletter

The Energy Knect Newsletter was launched in October 2020, with Ian Cogswell providing thoughts on the risks on which lenders specifically focus when financing new oil & gas projects that are designed with the transition to net zero emissions in mind. This followed on from his participation in Siemens Energy’s “Working Back from Net Zero” workshop, where some of the industry’s leading professionals joined together to brainstorm ideas of how they can collaborate through the energy transition journey. The workshop concluded that the lack of a common understanding on the level of financial risk due to technology deployment is disabling the energy transition process. There is a need to enable investors to better value the economic risk of technology deployment in project development and Ian will now work with the workshop participants on a white paper addressing how technology risk can be mitigated, which will be shared with energy transition stakeholders.

Energy Knect Newsletter October 2020

For further information, contact Ian at ian.cogswell@portlandadvisers.com or +44 20 7183 8214

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