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The EIB signed a EUR 400 million guarantee operation with Barclays Europe on 18 December 2025 (EIB project ref. 20250198, "Barclays Pan-EU Wind Power Package RS"), the first-ever cooperation between the EIB and Barclays and one of several bank-level sub-operations signed under the EIB's umbrella "Pan-EU Wind Power Package Risk Sharing" envelope (ref. 20230650, approved 13 December 2023). That envelope is an unfunded, partial-delegation risk-sharing lending line letting participating banks (Barclays, Natixis, Deutsche Bank, Banco Santander, BNP Paribas, ING, HSBC, Commerzbank, Erste Bank, CaixaBank, Danske Bank and others) issue advance-payment and performance bonds to wind-farm equipment manufacturers on the EIB's counter-guarantee. Of the EUR 400 million, EUR 250 million is earmarked for Germany and EUR 150 million for other EU member states. The stated purpose is to relieve a bottleneck in OEM guarantee capacity: commercial banks were reaching exposure limits on individual wind-turbine and component manufacturers, constraining their ability to bid on and deliver supply contracts. EIB Vice-President Nicola Beer framed the deal as addressing gaps in "guarantee and risk capacity" holding back wind projects; Barclays cited it as letting the bank "do more for our clients right across the wind energy value chain." The operation is backed by InvestEU and aligns with the European Wind Power Package and REPowerEU. Global Trade Alert logs the transaction as a "red" state-linked lending-support intervention, consistent with its treatment of the other EIB Group risk-sharing guarantees already in this register (see the Natixis, Santander, Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, Societe Generale and Credit Agricole tranches).
as the named UK/Irish-headquartered financial intermediary, with Germany taking the largest single-country allocation (EUR 250m of EUR 400m).
EU Green Deal / European Wind Power Package), signed the same week as several sister-bank tranches already in this register.
GTA identifies is the EIB's below-market counter-guarantee capacity being extended through Barclays to named commercial OEMs.
which specific OEMs have drawn or are expected to draw on the Barclays tranche.
other bank-level tranches already filed under the same umbrella envelope, or is additive to them, is not stated precisely in the available public sources.