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GCube Insurance launches first unscheduled U.S. wind maintenance protection plan

By Michelle Froese | May 18, 2015

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GCube Insurance’s new maintenance protection plan enables financial directors to more effectively manage their long-term wind energy O&M budgets.

GCube Insurance, a renewable energy underwriter specialist, has launched Beyond Balance Sheets: Unscheduled Maintenance Protection.

This unique, first-to-market service enables financial directors and risk management teams to more effectively manage their long-term operations and maintenance (O&M) budgets and rapidly reduce the requirement for excess working project capital.

Project owners now take an increasing interest in managing long-term O&M activity by reducing the costs incurred through a reliance on the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s).

Accordingly, financial directors and risk managers must address the growing challenge of ensuring the cost of such an activity is properly managed and fixed on their balance sheet.

In light of this, GCube has spent three years developing a specialist financial risk and insurance product that directly tackles this challenge. By locking in the cost of O&M wind farm activity and effectively securing the entire expense over a three year term, capital is quickly freed up to be used for other business critical activities.

For the owners and operators the product provides long-term peace of mind to the senior management team.

Key insurance policy benefits include comprehensive protection from serial defects experienced across a project, business interruption, mechanical, and electrical breakdown and cover for replacement parts, repair and reassembly.

“Now more than ever, U.S. project owners and operators are moving maintenance ‘in-house’ or are using third party providers to tackle and address long term operational needs,” said Fraser McLachlan, Chief Executive Officer, GCube Insurance Services.

“However, while this significantly reduces the reliance on the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), it has the resultant impact of tying up significant capital in operational projects due to unscheduled maintenance costs that have not been budgeted for. By smoothing these costs we free up cash to allow developers build and expand their wider project portfolios. It’s because of this, that we’ve prioritized the development of this product, thereby demonstrating the clear way in which the insurance markets can provide a positive impact in the future evolution and expansion of U.S. wind.”

GCube Insurance was established over two decades ago to tackle and address the construction and operational needs of the very first wind farms in North America and Europe. Today GCube Insurance is the leading insurance underwriter to the wind, solar, and wider renewable energy industries around the world.

With over 30,000 MW of projects insured, GCube Insurance understands the need for innovative insurance solutions that mitigate development, construction and operational risk. The new insurance service, Beyond Balance Sheets: Unscheduled Maintenance Protection, is available for selected developers and owner operators subject to a thorough underwriting review of the project portfolio.

GCube
www.gcube-insurance.com


Filed Under: Financing, Insurance, O&M, Projects
Tagged With: energy, GCube, insurance, Maintenance, protection, underwriter, wind
 

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