The report, Finance 2016, from Word about Wind looks ahead to the key trends and issues that will shape wind energy finance in 2016.
Taming uncertainty in wind project financing
Paul Dvorak/Editor Consultants and financial institutions agree that lowering the uncertainty surrounding a proposed wind farm makes the lenders agreeable to better terms. At AWEA’s recent Wind Resource & Project Energy Assessment Seminar, Errol Halberg, a wind resource engineer with consulting firm GENIVAR, based in Montreal , Canada, spoke on taming uncertainty and introduced the…
Ohio senator suggests the wrong road for renewable energy
Narrow minds and shortsightedness are the bane of the wind industry. The afflictions have surfaced again in a bill to repeal the Ohio mandate for utilities to find 25% of their power from renewable and so-called “advanced-technology” sources by 2025. The current law states half of the mandate, 12.5%, must come from renewable sources such…
A few financing lessons for renewable energy projects
At the recent Freshwater Wind conference, the President of Power Advisory LLC John Dalton spoke of financing challenges faced by several renewable-energy projects. He spoke on power purchase agreements, requests for proposals, and feed in tariffs and related the experience of projects such as Deepwater Wind off Rhode Island and Wolfe Island Shoals in Ontario,…