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Investing in transportation: Doing more with less PwC surveyed five countries—the UK, Australia, Japan, Sweden, and Canada—to analyze their transportation investment decisions. The research illustrates that transportation investment frameworks align policy objectives with investment resources using transparent, accountable processes. |
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What's next for nuclear power? This issue of Gridlines takes a pragmatic look at the long-term plans and actions that will be required to move the energy transformation ahead. That’s where nuclear power continues to fit in, according to many scientists and policy makers. Nuclear faces challenges, of course, but how they are being met is the subject of this issue of Gridlines. |
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Game on: Mega-event infrastructure opportunities PwC analyzes the infrastructure investments that a sample of host cities has made while also examining the long-term implications for each region where those investments occurred. |
Previous issues
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US power deals This PwC report offers analysis of Q3 2010 deal activity in the US utilities and power generation sector. |
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Transportation & Logistics 2030, Volume 3 Transportation & Logistics 2030 represents a series of Delphi studies on the future of the industry. The third volume of the T&L 2030 series is a multi-faceted analysis of transportation and logistics in emerging markets and the impact on global supply chains. We examine how regulation sets the scene for investment and growth, how new transport corridors span the globe, how industry consolidation accelerates and service levels improve and how the competitive environment at home and abroad emerges. |
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Eurasia Group Global Trends Quarterly: Shifting Trade Patterns Mean New Opportunities for Port Infrastructure As world trade and economic growth in developing countries boomed over the past decade, global port infrastructure was strained. As a result, governments around the world are now looking to alleviate bottlenecks. In addition, growing demand for commodities from Asia—particularly, China and India—has altered global trade patterns, boosting demand for a new class of mega-ships and therefore bigger ports. |
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Paving the Way: Maximizing the value of Private Finance in Infrastructure Published by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with PwC, this report looks at the opportunities and challenges of using private finance to fund infrastructure. The document looks across all infrastructure sectors and was supported by an expert committee drawn from a range of active infrastructure market participants including infrastructure funds, pension funds, public sector participants, funders (including multilateral funders) and an academic. |
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Gridlines This edition introduces a new PwC magazine devoted to infrastructure. Stories focus on four areas: emerging trends and technologies driving infrastructure transformation; ways to manage risks and seize opportunities; tactics that can help with day-to-day challenges; and interviews with experts at the heart of thought and action. |
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Successful Capital Projects: The Integrated Risk Framework This covers how rigorous governance and risk management practices guide effective decision making on complex capital investment programs. |
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Public-private partnerships: the US perspective The massive — and pressing — need to shore up US infrastructure is undeniable. A dearth of investment in recent years has exacerbated the imperative to act now. In response, some 25 states have enacted legislation to enable private-sector participation in infrastructure projects. These public-private partnerships (PPPs), already commonplace in many parts of the world, combine the best of public-sector governance with the most valuable of private-sector efficiencies. And US investors are beginning to show an increasing appetite for PPPs because infrastructure investments provide relative stability. |
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10Minutes on the US infrastructure PwC's review of the converging forces and massive need for infrastructure improvement in the US and how this sets the stage infrastructure companies and investors to act. |
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10Minutes on the US stimulus package PwC's analysis of the Obama administration stimulus plan (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), what industries may benefit and how it could change your business strategy. |
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10Minutes on Global Infrastructure PwC explores the significance of the emerging global focus on infrastructure. It highlights the substantial potential payoff for investments and examines why business and government will increasingly join forces to finance, build and operate transportation and other infrastructure projects. It also highlights how the pursuit of sustainability is creating opportunities as industries converge to develop clean technologies such as “smart” electric grids. And, given their increasing complexity, infrastructure projects will require an intense focus on risk management and accountability. |
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10Minutes on Monetizing Carbon PwC looks at what companies can do to prepare for a broader trend toward putting a price on greenhouse gas emissions. |
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Infrastructure investing in the US PwC's view on the emergence and complexity of infrastructure investing including public private partnerships, the different needs of the public and private sectors, and resolving key infrastructure investing issues. |
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Cities of Opportunity: Interview Excerpts Cities of Opportunity: Interview Excerpts provides insight from authorities in government, business, and urban policy on infrastructure at a time of transformat |
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Cities of Opportunity This third edition of Cities of Opportunity presents in-depth insights on twenty-one cities and their infrastructure issues as they emerge through the economic recovery. The U.S. cities of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago are among those featured. The paper also presents a foundation of quantitative research on the attributes that help make cities resilient. |
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Renewables Deals Renewables Deals 2009 examines the rationale behind the overall trends and the key individual deals in the renewable energy sector. Our review shows that renewables deals form a significant part of overall power sector M&A activity but that core (non-hydro) renewables deal activity has been very subdued. In part this reflects continued difficult conditions in credit markets. In addition, many key players have been focused on developing project portfolios that they have built up over a number of years. In this sense, investment is happening but not through M&A activity. |
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Cleantech revolution: Building smart infrastructures Recent trends of government and private investment into the build-out of smart infrastructures will cause companies across all industries to determine how they may benefit by assessing what role they might play—either directly or peripherally, and in the near and long-term—in the growth of smart infrastructure markets. |
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Capitalizing on a climate of change The issue of climate change is evolving from primarily a scientific and public policy concern to one of business risks and opportunities. Effectively managing these risks and capitalizing on the potential opportunities is now crucial to both the environment and the economy. Companies that develop sound strategies around climate change, as well as enhance reporting capabilities to address heightened stakeholder interest, stand to gain the most. |
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Critical imperatives for the modern utility industry The success of today’s utilities will be determined by those who are agile, transparent, accountable, and strategic visionaries. In light of regulatory mandates, these attributes are critical for utilities to effectively and confidently engage with public utilities commissions (PUC), protect and enhance shareholder value, reduce their long-term carbon footprint, and develop a renewable energy strategy based on new or changing regulation, location, and access to natural resources. |
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Power Deals annual review Power Deals 2009 reviews deal activity in the power and gas utilities industry. The report is the latest annual review edition in our annual series on deal-making. It examines activity in all parts of the sector. In a companion report, Renewables Deals 2009, we look more closely at renewable power deals. Together the two reports provide a comprehensive analysis of M&A activity in the power and gas utilities industry world-wide. |
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A world of difference: Utilities global survey 2008 A world of difference marks the tenth anniversary of PwC annual utilities global survey of 118 senior executives in 37 countries and reveals a sector that is anticipating wide scale transformation in the decade ahead. The changes the survey respondents predict include a huge change in the technological landscape and structure of the sector in the future. |
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Financial reporting in the utilities industry This edition of 'Financial reporting in the utilities industry' describes the financial reporting implications of IFRS across a number of areas selected for their particular relevance to utilities companies. It provides insights into how companies are responding to the various challenges, and includes examples of accounting policies and other disclosures from published financial statements. It examines key developments in the evolution of IFRS in the industry. |
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Intersections: Global transportation and logistics mergers and acquisitions analysis There were 37 deals (of which 25 did not include the US entities) announced during the third quarter of 2008 with a disclosed value of a least $50 million. When evaluating the third quarter of 2008 in isolation, it is apparent that the decline of the global banking sector and the faltering global credit markets have caused a slowdown in transportation & logistics deal activity beyond those transactions that involve US parties. Since, the turmoil in the credit markets continues to have a disproportionate and negative impact on financial investors, well-capitalized strategic investors accounting for the majority of transactions. |
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Hoisting the sails* Global shipping & ports We provide services for deep sea, short sea and inland shipping companies, port authorities and terminal operators in the areas: audit and assurance, business advisory and global tax. |
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Infrastructure funds In this document, we look at the key themes across the infrastructure investment lifecycle, exploring recent trends in infrastructure fund-raising and investment, together with looking at the key current issues from funds' and investors' perspectives. |
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Gauging your success Master limited partnerships (MLPs) have become increasingly attractive organizational structures and investment vehicles for Energy and Mining companies. Renewed interest from the capital markets as a result of the MLP's profitability, stability of cash flows, distribution yields and ability to optimize returns on assets. Gauging your success is a PwC's guide to understanding the principal issues and challenges of managing an MLP. It answers key questions for existing and mature MLPs, as well as companies forming new ones. |
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