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Renewable Energy Project Financing & PPAs

Renewable Energy Project Financing & PPAs

1 Weeks
Professional Level
Certificate Included
Course Content

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Available Events
CityDatePriceStatus
IstanbulTurkey
September 20, 2026
€3,900
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TunisTunis
October 7, 2026
€3,900
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AmsterdamNetherlands
October 8, 2026
€4,600
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LondonUnited Kingdom
October 12, 2026
£4,600
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ParisFrance
October 14, 2026
€4,600
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OnlineOnline
October 20, 2026
€1,790
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Kuala LumpurMalaysia
October 27, 2026
€4,400
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Course Information

Duration

1 Weeks

Category

ESG & CLIMATE CHANGE

Level

Professional Level

Certificate

Included

INTRODUCTION

The global transition toward cleaner energy systems is creating unprecedented demand for professionally structured renewable energy investments. However, strong technology and favorable resources alone cannot guarantee successful project financing. Investors and lenders require transparent financial assumptions, reliable revenue arrangements, appropriate guarantees, and manageable risk exposure. Power purchase agreements are central to this process because they define pricing, payment, delivery, performance, and contractual obligations. Poorly designed agreements may expose projects to revenue uncertainty, financing delays, disputes, or financial distress. This course connects renewable energy economics with project finance techniques and contractual decision-making. Participants learn how commercial, legal, technical, and regulatory elements influence project viability and investment confidence. Case studies and practical exercises demonstrate how financing structures and contractual clauses operate throughout the project lifecycle. The program enables professionals to make informed decisions that improve bankability, protect stakeholder interests, and support successful financial closure.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Participants will achieve the following objectives by this course:

  • Explain the fundamental principles of renewable energy project financing and investment evaluation.
  • Identify suitable financing structures for solar, wind, hydroelectric, and other renewable projects.
  • Evaluate project bankability from lender, investor, developer, and electricity buyer perspectives.
  • Develop reliable financial forecasts covering revenues, costs, debt, taxation, and investment returns.
  • Interpret key financial indicators used in renewable energy financing decisions.
  • Analyze the commercial structure and essential provisions of power purchase agreements.
  • Allocate construction, operational, market, regulatory, and payment risks between project stakeholders.
  • Assess pricing mechanisms, guarantees, termination provisions, and compensation arrangements.
  • Conduct sensitivity and scenario analysis for changing financial and operational assumptions.
  • Support effective negotiations leading to balanced agreements and successful financial closure.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This program targets a professional audience seeking to improve knowledge and skills:

  • Renewable energy project developers responsible for project planning, investment, and commercial structuring.
  • Finance managers and analysts evaluating project feasibility, funding requirements, and investment returns.
  • Government officials developing renewable energy procurement programs, regulations, and partnership frameworks.
  • Utility professionals managing electricity purchasing, tariff structures, and long-term supply agreements.
  • Commercial bankers and development finance professionals assessing creditworthiness and project bankability.
  • Legal advisers supporting contract drafting, risk allocation, negotiation, and regulatory compliance.
  • Investors, asset managers, and infrastructure funds considering renewable energy investment opportunities.
  • Engineering and technical managers contributing operational assumptions to financial and contractual models.
  • Consultants advising organizations on energy strategy, procurement, financing, and commercial negotiations.

COURSE OUTLINE

Day 1: Renewable Energy Markets and Project Finance Fundamentals

  • Global renewable energy investment trends and evolving electricity market structures.
  • Characteristics of solar, wind, hydroelectric, biomass, and storage projects.
  • Differences between corporate finance and limited-recourse project finance.
  • Principal stakeholders and their roles throughout the financing lifecycle.
  • Project development stages from feasibility assessment to commercial operation.
  • Capital expenditure, operating expenditure, revenue, and lifecycle cost fundamentals.
  • Financing sources including equity, commercial debt, and development finance.
  • Key conditions required to establish project bankability.
  • Overview of financial closure requirements and lender approval processes.

Day 2: Financial Modelling and Investment Appraisal

  • Building project assumptions for generation, availability, degradation, and pricing.
  • Forecasting capital costs, operating expenses, taxes, and working capital.
  • Developing projected income statements, cash flows, and balance sheets.
  • Calculating net present value and internal rate of return.
  • Assessing debt service coverage and loan life coverage ratios.
  • Structuring debt maturity, repayment profiles, interest, and grace periods.
  • Evaluating sponsor returns and project-level investment performance.
  • Conducting sensitivity analysis for costs, generation, tariffs, and delays.
  • Applying scenario analysis to downside and stress conditions.

Day 3: Power Purchase Agreement Structures and Commercial Terms

  • Purpose and strategic importance of long-term electricity purchase agreements.
  • Comparing utility, corporate, private-wire, and synthetic agreement structures.
  • Defining contracted capacity, energy delivery, and commercial operation requirements.
  • Evaluating fixed, indexed, escalating, and market-linked pricing mechanisms.
  • Establishing billing, invoicing, payment security, and settlement procedures.
  • Addressing forecasting, scheduling, metering, and electricity delivery obligations.
  • Managing curtailment, deemed generation, and grid availability provisions.
  • Designing performance guarantees, availability standards, and testing procedures.
  • Reviewing agreement duration, renewal rights, and contractual milestones.

Day 4: Risk Allocation, Security, and Contract Negotiation

  • Identifying development, construction, operational, market, and regulatory risks.
  • Allocating risks to parties best positioned to manage them.
  • Evaluating buyer creditworthiness and long-term payment capacity.
  • Structuring guarantees, letters of credit, reserves, and security packages.
  • Addressing force majeure, change in law, and political events.
  • Managing currency, inflation, interest rate, and convertibility exposure.
  • Defining default events, cure periods, termination rights, and compensation.
  • Aligning construction, operation, financing, and purchase agreement obligations.
  • Applying negotiation strategies for balanced and bankable contractual outcomes.

Day 5: Due Diligence, Financial Closure, and Applied Case Study

  • Conducting technical, legal, financial, environmental, and commercial due diligence.
  • Reviewing permits, land rights, grid access, and regulatory approvals.
  • Evaluating engineering, procurement, construction, and operation contracts.
  • Understanding lender conditions, covenants, reporting, and monitoring requirements.
  • Preparing financing proposals and investment committee presentations.
  • Coordinating documentation required for successful financial closure.
  • Restructuring projects when assumptions, markets, or regulations change.
  • Assessing refinancing, asset sales, and long-term portfolio management options.
  • Completing an integrated renewable energy financing and agreement case study.

COURSE DURATION

Duration: 1 Weeks

This intensive five-day professional program combines expert instruction, practical exercises, financial modelling applications, contract analysis, negotiation activities, and case studies, with each training day structured to provide progressive knowledge development and direct workplace application.

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION

The program is delivered by an internationally certified expert with extensive practical and consulting experience in renewable energy investment, project finance, financial modelling, power purchase agreements, risk allocation, commercial negotiations, and the development of bankable energy infrastructure projects across diverse regulatory and market environments.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

No, the course explains essential concepts before progressing to applied financial analysis.

CONCLUSION

Successful renewable energy investments depend on sound financial analysis, credible revenue arrangements, and balanced contractual risk allocation. This course equips participants with the knowledge required to evaluate project viability and develop financeable commercial structures. Participants gain practical capabilities in financial modelling, investment appraisal, agreement analysis, due diligence, and negotiation. The integrated approach supports better coordination between developers, lenders, investors, governments, utilities, and advisers. Graduates will be prepared to contribute confidently to renewable energy transactions from early development through financial closure and long-term operation.

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