Assessing, Developing, and Financing Clean Energy Projects
This course will help the public and private sectors leverage global best practices to evaluate, structure, and finance clean energy projects to assess its technical and economic feasibility and see what threats need to be mitigated to maximize returns. Clean energy projects can use local resources—ranging from solar irradiation to wind to natural gas to running water—to diversify energy resource portfolios; to make a community more resilient and energy self-reliant; to create value locally in terms of local tax revenues, local industries, and local services; and reduce transmission losses which can sap 20% of the energy potential traversing those lines through heat loss at times of peak load. If a clean energy project is feasible, it can be financed through various structures to assign risk fairly, leverage interested parties’ strengths to find financing solutions, and find that fabled win-win with a bankable project that benefits all parties.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- The participants will benefit from gaining a working knowledge of clean energy resources and technologies that can convert those resources into usable energy in homes, businesses, institutions, industries, and even entire cities;
- assessing the enabling environment of policies, legislation, regulatory regimes, grants and loans, and other indicators of the public sector’s commitment to promoting and installing clean energy—whether it is for economic development, environmental, social justice, or risk mitigation purposes;
- being able to assess, develop, and finance renewable energy projects on technical, economic environment bases;
- and making informed decisions on the latter phases of clean energy project development, financing, and de-risking to create solid investments with reasonable returns.