$995.00
This solar project finance modeling course is a unique and intensive hands-on course on modeling distributed generation solar PV projects.
Description
This solar project finance modeling for solar PV projects online course is a unique and intensive hands-on course on modeling distributed generation solar PV projects.
Although the course comes with sample models of an unstructured income statement, a partnership flip, and a sale-leaseback, the focus is on teaching the tools, techniques, and formulas necessary for efficient and reliable modeling.
The four sessions culminate with students setting a PPA rate with escalator and valuing a real project of their own choosing using the solar project finance models they built, tested, and proofed during the course.
Students will learn to quantitatively assess the value of a project at all stages of development, and measure that value from the perspective of a developer, investor, and customer with a partnership flip. Students will learn to calculate project returns (IRR and NPV), set PPA prices (with and without escalators), calculate the value of tax benefits, including MACRS depreciation and the ITC, and assess the value and timing of non-federal subsidies. Students will also learn the importance of workbook organization and information presentation.
Learning Objectives
Throughout this solar project finance modeling course participants will:
- Learn how to quantitatively assess the value of a project at all stages of development and how to measure that value from the perspective of a developer, investor, and customer with a partnership flip
- Learn to calculate project returns (IRR and NPV)
- Learn how to set PPA prices (with and without escalators)
- Learn how to calculate the value of tax benefits, including MACRS
- depreciation and the ITC
- Learn how to assess the value and timing of non-federal subsidies
- Learn the importance of workbook organization and information presentation
Compare this Financial Modeling for Solar PV Projects course with the Solar Executive MBA Training course.
About The Instructor:
Christopher J. Lord is the Managing Director of CapIron, Inc., a firm focused, among other things, on helping clients plan, structure and close financings involving renewable energy projects, including Distributed Generation and Utility-Scale Projects. Mr. Lord graduated from Cornell Law School, and practiced corporate law in firms, and in-house, for over 25 years. He has been General Counsel of a publicly traded technology firm and energy finance firm, as well as counsel to energy development projects, utility financings, energy efficiency securitizations and renewable energy transactions. Over his career he has closed more than $3 billion in financings.
CapIron has provided consulting and modeling services for waste-to-energy projects, advisory services to a large-scale distributed generation solar project, consulting and advisory services in the solar thermal industry and early-stage development of a startup wind energy company.
