Course Content
Financial modeling is a critical yet often underappreciated skill, essential for success in corporate finance and business. Whether you’re launching a new venture, managing operations, or evaluating “what-if” scenarios through sensitivity analysis, the ability to create a robust financial model is indispensable. Your boss, clients, or investors will demand professional and reliable forecasts that inspire confidence.
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.
By the end of this course, participants will have mastered the ability to build professional financial models that project future cash flows and evaluate business scenarios. You will gain expertise in performing sensitivity analysis to identify risks, applying discounted cash flow DCF models for valuation, and conducting comprehensive financial statement analysis. Additionally, you will understand the mechanics of income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow integration, allowing you to make informed business decisions.
Other Frequently Asked Questions
Pivotal180’s Renewable Energy Project Finance Modeling course focuses on wind and solar projects, using a wind project case study. The model can also be applied to technologies such as hydro, and live or customized courses can be tailored to any technology. Battery storage is covered in Pivotal180’s separate Battery Storage Financial Modeling course.
No. Renewable Energy Project Finance Modeling is designed for participants at all levels, including people already working in renewables, recent graduates and career changers. The only requirements are basic Excel knowledge and a computer or laptop.
The live streaming course runs as 8 sessions of 3 hours over 4 to 5 weeks, with a maximum of around 12 participants per class. The self-paced online course can be started any time and includes 12 months of access. The course is CPD accredited and equivalent to 31 CPD hours.
Yes. The course covers US tax credits and depreciation and gives an introduction to tax equity, alongside debt sizing, repayments, covenants, curtailment, degradation, P50/P99 analysis, PPAs and construction funding.
For full tax equity structuring, including partnership flips and HLBV, take Tax Equity & Hybrid Financial Modeling next.