Financial modeling | Renewable Energy: Solar & Wind

Learn how build a financial model for solar plants and wind plants, and help seal renewable energy deals worldwide!

What you'll learn

The fundamentals of a power plants' business, and their key value drivers
How to model a plant's cashflow performance in Excel
How to use this model to assess financing and commercial options for the plant and how they affect its value!

Requirements

Be able to build a basic 3-statement model in Excel
How to use the index-match combination in Excel

Description

Want to work on RENEWABLE ENERGY deals in WIND and SOLAR power?
Want to be part of the global shift to renewable energy?
Want to break into a sector that is expected to have $10TRILLION poured into it through 2040?

THIS is the course for YOU!

Go beyond filling out pre-prepared templates - build complex financial models from scratch!
Make a quantum leap in your financial modeling skills!
Save hours at work - by learning Excel best practices and VBA!


This course takes an application-led approach which will guide you through an ENTIRE buyout valuation model for a newly operational WIND PLANT or SOLAR PLANT in Excel!


You'll take a comprehensive a approach learning the BUSINESS AND RISK FUNDAMENTALS of wind and solar power plants' business, including how to find relevant information in technical engineering reports.

You won't just be taught how to build a financial model - you'll learn HOW TO USE IT.


You'll prepare yourself for to work on solar and wind plant deals ALL AROUND THE WORLD with:

Banks

Advisory teams

Private equity funds

Debt funds

Industrial developers

Asset managers


You'll cover the theory and financial modeling for:

Solar and wind plant business and operations

Plant risk assessment

Debt sizing

Debt service sculpting/tailoring/payment structuring

Lender covenants

Complex cash waterfalls

Debt service ratios

Dynamic charts and dashboard design

Circular calculations common in plant financing deals


Your financial model will:

Handle complex financial engineering and analysis applicable to most wind and solar buyout deals

Calculate returns, a fair buyout price, and industry-specific multiple

Give you flexibility to assess multiple financing arrangements

Have clean, efficient VBA code to speed up your analysis and free up your time

Follow the very best practices actually used by professionals in the industry


Who this course is for:

Students and young professionals interested in supporting commercial and financial deals for solar and wind power plants!