Mastering Renewable Energy Project Finance
Get an insightful overview of the existing markets, architectures and industry players associated with financing and investing in renewable energy projects.
Mastering Renewable Energy Project Finance
Influenced by demographics, strong support by government bodies and international organizations worldwide and associated with the anxiety over climate change, investors are looking more and more favorably at renewable energy assets.
Thanks to huge cost reductions over the past two decades, wind and solar power in particular can now compete with conventional fossil means of power generation. With their flexibility and ease of deployment, these technology-based power generating assets provide access to electricity for millions of people around the world who are far from existing grid infrastructure, while challenging the business models of traditional utilities.
Our 5-day program will fully equip participants with the latest information and techniques on financing and investing strategies in all types of renewable energy projects, enabling them to successfully participate in the international renewable energy industry.
This training is a strategic framework to understand the business models, financing instruments, and deal structures peculiar to renewable energy projects.
What you will learn?
- Characteristics of renewable energy projects
- Risk identification, risk allocation, risk mitigation techniques in financing renewable energy projects
- Different operating models, contracts, and financing instruments are used to fund renewable energy projects, including channels to access finance
- How to build and use financial models to analyze the projects and the participant’s cash flows. The financial model is crucial in assisting developers, investors, lenders, and customers
- How to identify and categorize risks and study strategies to control, mitigate, finance, avoid and manage them.
Who should attend
- Finance Directors
- Asset Managers
- Investment Analysts
- Company Owners
- Fund managers
- Project developers and CEOs
- Business and strategy analysts
- Business development managers
- Regulatory authority staff members
- Financiers involved in project finance, investment analysis, and syndicated lending
- Government bodies engaged in sponsoring/assessing project finance deals
- Bankers (Commercial, Investment, Institutional, Corporate, and Development)
- Project Managers
- Contractors
- Investment Analysts
- Project Sponsors
How it works?
7th – 11th of December 2022
The online training will take place over 5 days and it will be lasting 3 hours.
Recording
The session will be recorded and sent out to all registered delegates.
Notification
Once you’ve registered for the training, we will email you with all information and login credentials.
Training agenda
Session 1, 3h
Overview of renewable energy products and projects
–Global Market growth
–International energy usage and global investments in the renewable energy market
–Overview of renewable energy projects: construction, technology, operations, maintenance, revenue stream in:
- Solar farms
- Wind farms
- Geothermal
- Hydro
- Landfill gas
Introduction to Project finance
-What is a project finance deal and its main participants
-Market of project finance and its principles
-Project finance as the primary financing source for renewables – critical drivers for investors and lenders
-Risks on investors and lender side
Session 2, 3h
Business models
–Models for generating clean energy, wholesale power purchase agreements (PPA)
–Models for procuring clean energy, leasing models, and direct off-site PPAs
–Models for facilitating, trading, and aggregating demand for clean energy, reverse auctions, and municipal aggregation
–Revenue, pricing, operational costs
Session 3, 3h
Sources and financial instruments
–Funding requirements
-Funding classes
-Financial instruments: equity finance, debt finance, quarantines, insurance, loan, leasing
Risk identification, assessment, strategy
-Technology risk
-Construction risk
-Operation and maintenance risk
-Supply risk
–Political risks
-Force Majeure
-Social and environmental issues
Session 4, 3h
The cashflow model
-Analysis and project structure
-Simplified model
-CFADS – Cashflow for dept services
-ADSCR – average debt service coverage ratio
-Dept sizing
–Cover ratio
-Investment decision, credit decision
Session 5, 3h
Loan documentation in project finance and legal framework
-Loan agreements: core features, conditions, warranties, covenants, events of default
–Crucial documents: account agreement, intercreditor deed, common term agreement, direct agreements, corporate documentation, O&M contracts, EPC, offtake, land agreements, bond documentation
-Bankruptcy of dept equity providers
–Insurance
–Anti-corruption provisions
–Anti-money laundering provisions
Join the training
Mastering Renewable Energy Project Finance training will introduce you risks, operation models, contract, financial instruments in renewable energy financial projects.
Training methodology
The agenda will combine presented materials with plenty of opportunities for Q&A, interactive discussions, and the use of quantitative models to illustrate key learning points. Current market examples and data are utilized wherever helpful.
Course Certificate
After successful completion of this training, you will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance.
