Renewable Energy Project Finance - Online Academy Middlesex University

Overview

Learn how to

• Appreciate the outlook of lenders in project finance and the risk vs. reward position of debt financiers 
• Master risk identification, risk allocation and risk mitigation techniques that are incorporated in renewable energy project finance 
• Use the key technical aspects of the renewal power sector and incorporate your insight on the changing structure of the industry

You’ll return to work with a power project financing “toolkit” incorporating 

• Project risk appraisal and mitigation 
• Project quantitative analysis and debt sizing structuring 

• Project finance loan documentation

Case studies and practical sessions during the Renewable Energy Project Finance - Online Academy course from Middlesex University

• Exercise - Renewable Energy Auction
  • The group will be arranged into small teams and asked to review the assumptions and output of a simplified Cashflow Model. They will be asked to review the imputs with a view to submitting a bid for a renewable Energy Project
• Case Studies
  • Three Offshore Wind Farms - Review the evolution of the technology and how lenders have become increasingly comfortable with the construction and operational risks in the sector the technology has developed. The cases will illustrate the effects of competition (between lenders) in the sector and how structures have changed
  • African Hydro Plant - The issues relating to the construction of the plant and then what has happened to the project once the offtaker (Government) has seen lower cost new technologies come on-stream
  • European Solar PV - This is probably the most accessible sector in Renewable Energy
  • Kramer Wind Farm - This onshore wind farm was developed using a Corporate PPA with a consortium of power buyers in The Netherlands.