Manuscript - Financing Modeling of Renewable Energy Projects
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Financing Issues
Wind
• Project Financing
• Construction Over-run Facilities
• Higher Debt Service Coverage Requirement
• Shorter Tenor of Debt
• Cash Sweep
• Implications
• Measurement of Value from IRR
• Problems with Equity IRR due to Re-financing
• Improvements as Technology is Confirmed
Solar
• Solar Power Involves Debt Structuring and Sizing more than Risk Analysis
• High Capital Cost
• Low construction, resource, O&M and pricing risk
• EPC Contracts with low premium
• Low Standard Deviation of Resource from Year to Year
• Feed-in Tariffs Long Term
• Risk of Off-taker (Spain)
• Objective to optimize debt structure to maximize the rate of return
• Analysis is more structuring and less risk analysis
• Small Risks such as Variation in Losses Become Big Risks
Hydro Issues
• Hydro power may sell power at merchant prices
• Risk analysis depends on electricity prices
• Storage Hydro – on peak prices
• Run of River – all hour prices
• Financing is affected by outlook for prices
• Re-financing and cash sweeps
• Break-even analysis of prices and marginal cost analysis
• Construction Over-run Risk
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