ASSESSING, DEVELOPING, AND FINANCING CLEAN ENERGY PROJECTS

Day 1

CLEAN ENERGY RESOURCES

• Clean Energy Resources Overview

• Solar

• Wind

• Water

• Biomass

• Biofuels

• Hydrogen

• Natural Gas

• Resource Information, e.g., from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

  • Country Profiles

  • Clean Energy Corridors

  • Global Geothermal Alliance

  • Renewables Readiness Assessments

  • Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Lighthouses

  • Global Atlas for Renewable Energy

  • Sustainable Energy Marketplace

•  Localized Clean Energy Resource Data

• Capacity Factors

• Geographic Dispersion

Day 2

CLEAN ENERGY GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES

• Centralized vs. De-centralized Generation

• Renewable Energy Generation Technologies

  • Solar Photovoltaic (PV)

  • Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)

  • Wind Turbines

  • Geothermal

  • Hydropower (dammed and run-of-river)

  • Wave, Current, and O-TEC

  • Fuel Cells

  • Hydro/Solar Seasonal Complementarity

•  Natural Gas Energy Generation Technologies

  • Natural Gas Combustion: Boilers, Steam Generators, Turbines, and Engines

  • Natural Gas Combined Heat & Power

•  District Energy, Cooling, and Heating

  • Campuses

  • Industrial parks

  • Cities

•  Energy Storage Technologies

• Ride-through vs. Short-term vs. Long-term Dispatch Needs

• Flywheels

• Lithium-Ion

• Nickel-cadmium

• Lead Acid

• Vanadium Flow Batteries

• Iron Flow Batteries

• Pumped Hydro

• Dammed Hydro

• Clean Energy Data from the International Energy Agency (IEA)

  • Fuels and Technologies

  • Analysis

  • Data

  • Analysis

  • World Energy Outlook

Day 3

EVALUATING CLEAN ENERGY PROJECTS

• Market Assessment

  • Trends in Energy Use

  • Need for Storage Based on Load Profiles

  • Avoided Grid Electricity Tariffs

  • Time of Use/Time of Day Rates

  • Market Sector Strength and Projected growth

  • Ability to Pay

• Enabling Policy & Regulatory Environment

  • Policy Price Support Mechanisms

    • Single-Buyer Paradigm

    • Renewable Portfolio Standards

    • Feed-In Tariffs

    • Competitive Procurement

    • Grant Programs

    • Subsidy Programs

  • Net Metering

  • Community Energy

  • Time of Use/Time of Day

  • Taxes

  • Depreciation/MACRS

• Making Renewable Energy Projects Bankable Through Due Diligence

  • Modeling

  • Project Preparation Facility

    • ODI Model

• Load Assessment

  • Electricity, Heating, Cooling, and Process Heat

  • Net - Zero Energy

  • Residential

  • Commercial & Institutional

  • Industrial

    • Electricity

    • Process heat

    • Cooling

  • Electric Vehicle Charging 

  • Energy Storage and Controls Systems

• Technical Feasibility  

  • Available Resources

    • Global Atlas for Renewable Energy

    • Need for Local Data Acquisition

  • Capacity Factors

    • Translating CF Into Spreadsheet Analyses

  • Variable Renewable Energy and Grid Stability

  • Modeling, e.g., with PV Syst, System Advisor Model

• Economic Feasibility

  • Clean Energy Cost Trends

  • Power Purchase Agreements

  • The Creditworthiness of the End-user/Off-taker

  • Cashflow

  • Metrics, e.g., ROI and payback

Day 4

DEVELOPING CLEAN ENERGY PROJECTS    

• Permits, ESIA, etc.

  • Contract Enforceability

• Regulatory Steps

  • Ease of Doing Business Rating

  • ESIA

  • Land permits

  • Air permits

  • Contract Enforceability

  • Grid impact studies

  • PSS/E model

•  Electricity Transmission & Distribution Grid

  • Off-Grid vs. On-Grid

  • Grid as Battery/Buffer

  • Islanding

  • Advanced Controls Systems

  • Energy Access

  • Grid Arrival

  • Ability to Pay

    • DISCO

    • Cultural Sensitivities

    • Cost-Reflective Tariffs

    • Collection Rates

    • Customer Regularization

  •  DISCO/Generator/Procurement Agency/Investor/Lender chain

•  Financing (Next Section) and Procurement

• Centralized vs. IPP vs. de-centralized

• Power Purchase Agreement

  • Single-buyer

  • Feed-in Tariffs

  • RPS SRECs

  • Competitive procurement, e.g., Reverse Auction

  • IPPs

•  Commissioning

• Operations & Maintenance 

  • Contract

  • Optimizes Performance and Returns

•  Decommissioning

Day 5

Debt/Equity Ratios

• ROI, Payback Period, et al. metrics

• Financing Models Overview

  • CAPEX

  • Debt-Equity Ratios

  • Self-Financed

  • Project Financing

  • Leasing

  • Renewable Energy Service Companies (RESCO)

  • Independent Power Producers (IPP)

  • PAYGO

  • Crowdfunding

• Public-Private Partnerships

  • Private Sector Assets and Motivations

    • Access to Capital and Credit

    • Skilled Workforce

    • Know-How

  • Public Sector Assets and Motivations

    • Land

    • Municipal/Green Bonds

  • Models:

    • BOT (build–operate–transfer)

    • BOOT (build–own–operate–transfer)

    • BOO (build–own–operate)

    • BLT (build–lease–transfer)

    • DBFO (design-build–finance–operate)

    • DBOT (design-build-operate–transfer)

    • DCMF (design-construct–manage–finance)

• ESG Bonds

  • Visa Expands Commitment to Sustainability Through Inaugural $500 Million Green Bond Issuance

  • Google parent Alphabet Inc. Issuance aligns with growing investor focus on social and environmental matters at very low rates

  • Corporate Sustainability Responsibility

• De-Risking Instruments

  • PCOAs

  • PRGs

  • PRI

  • Sovereign Guarantee

  • Credit Enhancement

  • Project Financing

  • Project Preparation Facility