Successfully Developing Renewable Projects

RPER-EN-P

Who should attend?

  • Limiting climate change requires a strong acceleration of the introduction of new Renewable energy production facilities. This training provides participants with a structured methodology to assess and develop renewables projects. The toolkit they will be given will enable them to overcome the potential difficulties of these to ensure their success, be it, for example, in terms of community engagement or financing.
Public :
  • Business development staff & supporting functional staff, technical managers, new economists and finance staff of energy companies, investors, bankers, public decision makers promoting new energies (industry, finance, energy, environment).

Level :Knowledge

Prerequisite :
  • Basic notions of Microsoft Excel.

Course Content

  • GOVERNANCE/PROJECT MANAGEMENT  - Duration : 0.25 Day

      • Introduction.
      • Key players and key steps of a renewables project.
  • MARKET ACCESS - Duration : 1 Day

      • Understanding demand and the competitive environment.
      • Route to market : auctions, Purchasing Power Agreements, the various typical contracts required in a renewables project.
      • Partnering.
      • Risk management: Pestel analysis, sensitivities, scenarios.
      • Stakeholder management.
  • BUSINESS CASE ASSESSMENT - Duration : 1 Day

      • Cost of capital and discounted cash flow methodology.
      • Assessing revenues, costs and investments.
      • Building up future cash flows taking into account taxes and inflation.
      • Economic indicators calculation (NPV, IRR, Payback Time, economic cost).
  • FINANCING - Duration : 0.75 Day

      • The various sources of financing (in particular Project Financing, Green Bonds).
      • Prerequisites: “bankability”.
      • Shareholder profitability analysis (geared economics).

Learning Objectives

  • Attendees will be able to implement the following skills:
  • set the different stages of the development of an ENR project and list key contracts,
  • build an economic model of an ENR project and identify the risks,
  • manage stakeholders and evaluate possible financing option.

Ways & Means

  • Exercises.
  • Case study: economic evaluation and financing of a renewables project.
  • Focus on solar and wind projects.
  • Examples from various countries.

Learning assessment

  • Participants will be evaluated during the training through the exercises and case study.

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Coordinator :In-house or contracted IFP Training trainer having expertise and experience in business development and economic evaluation in the energy sector.

To French entities : IFP Training is referenced to DataDock ; you may contact your OPCO about potential funding. Please contact our disabled persons referent to check the accessibility of this training program : referent.handicap@ifptraining.com