By Alison Leckie | June 19, 2025
Course Overview
This video is an overview of our best selling online course. Renewable Energy Project Finance Modeling.
This course teaches participants how to develop a best-practice financial model and optimize it for both debt and equity investors for a renewable energy project finance deal. Using a wind project as a case study, participants learn the concepts required to develop a financial model related to wind and solar. This course will teach the participants concepts including how to size debt, how to structure the repayments and to model the output covenants in the deal, how to calculate generation curtailment and degradation, how to forecast wind and the different probabilities.
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Renewable energy projects are an important part of the energy mix and will remain so going forward. But how are these solar, wind, and many other types of projects financed and modeled?
That’s exactly what Pivotal180 is here to teach you.
This Renewable Energy Project Finance Modeling Course is one of our core courses. We teach you the essential project finance and renewable energy concepts, we provide you with the technical knowledge and best practices to make you efficient and show you how to build a financial model from scratch.
This course will introduce you to the corporate form and risks of project finance transactions. How to set up a project finance model. how to structure and size project finance, term loans, construction debt and debt service reserve accounts. How to develop operational calculations and consider the key risks associated with solar and wind projects.
We even dive into the technical forecasting of wind projects for finance people. tax concepts and calculations suitable for most regions in the world, including tax credits common in the US with an introduction to tax equity. equity optimization, such as determining the required energy price for your project to achieve target returns for the investor three way financial statements, as well as the model outputs required to make the decision on your deal, how to efficiently run “what if” analysis, and importantly to learn the structure and contents of legal agreements in a renewable energy deal.
When you buy this or any other Pivotal180 course, you gain access to the online course platform. This is a great ongoing resource with model downloads, videos, subtitles, transcripts, slides, and quizzes. You’ll also become a member of our Pivotal 180 Alumni Learning community where you can continue to ask questions or participate in discussions that are important to you.
You have some options for how to take this Renewable Energy Project Finance Modeling Course. You could do the online self-paced course, just sign up and complete it at your own pace, or join a public instructor led class. This could be in person or via several Zoom sessions. This version also includes access to the online self-paced course, but it allows for more discussion as well as homework and full case studies. Or you could arrange a course specifically for your organization, either in person or via Zoom. It has all of the benefits of the public classes that can be tailored specifically to your needs.
Feel free to reach out to sales@pivotal180.com with any questions. We look forward to seeing you in our courses.
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