Pivotal180 Newsletter June 2025
By Alison Leckie | June 27, 2025
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Dear there, In this newsletter, we have included the following content:
Kind regards, The Pivotal180 Team. |
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Dylan Parkes, Director at Pivotal180, is our newest member responsible for our live stream and in-person course training, consulting, and audit services. With a unique career that spans Shakespeare to spreadsheets. A former actor, turned finance professional, Dylan has over a decade of experience across corporate and project finance. Dylan brings a dynamic, storytelling-driven approach to teaching. His mission is to make any subject, no matter how technical, clear, human, and even fun! Most recently, as an Investment Officer with the U.S. government, Dylan managed global finance deals across sectors including renewable energy, natural gas, and surface infrastructure. He has collaborated with leading institutions such as Citibank, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and Santander. A true global citizen, Dylan has lived in Qatar, Mexico, Italy, and Ukraine. And his favorite Excel shortcut? Ctrl + ~ — because you can’t fix what you can’t see. |
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Pivotal180 is heading down under We are thrilled to announce that in just a few short months, Pivotal180 will have a new office in Sydney, Australia. The new office will be headed up by Matt and will be offering the same services as our current office in New York. Matt is excited at the opportunity to return to his second home in Sydney and bring Pivotal180’s world-class project finance modeling courses to our clients in Australia and across the region. He can’t wait to connect (and re-connect) with friends and colleagues old and new. If your business has teams in Australia or APAC who could benefit from Pivotal180 programs — er, programmes — please reach out. And to any past students planning a visit Down Under, drop him a line! [email protected] |
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New Online Courses – coming soon Introduction to Project Finance Modeling one of our most popular public live stream courses courses, is coming online in Quarter 3 2025. This course is designed to provide participants with knowledge of the core concepts that impact investments and debt structuring for project finance transactions. It is targeted at beginning modelers, students, and individuals who may not build models every day but for whom an understanding of project finance models and concepts is critical to decision making.
We have received your feedback, and we are working hard to reach even more students by launching more online courses in the next few months. These include Advanced Project Finance Debt Modeling and Data Centers Financial Modeling. Watch this space!
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Our free resources include videos, blogs, how-to guides, webinars and course samples. |
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Renewable Energy Project Finance Modeling Course Overview This video provides 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 how 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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This video is an extract from our Pivotal180 online project finance courses. It is one of our most watched videos on Pivotal180 YouTube . Learn how project finance is the answer to the deceptively hard and almost impossible question, How do you convince lenders and equity investors to provide hundreds of millions of dollars to a company that has no credit history, has no employees, has never operated or generated any revenue and has no guarantees from anyone credit worthy, promising to repay the money and make good on the investment? |
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Beat the tax credit blues with one big, beautiful financial model The U.S. renewable energy industry has been abuzz with speculation following the House of Representatives’ recent budget reconciliation bill. A key concern being the the potential reduction or even elimination of critical tax credits for solar and wind energy projects. But, just how much value would be lost if the credits were to be repealed, and how would project developers need to adjust to persevere? That’s where a robust financial model comes into play. Graduates of Pivotal180’s Renewable Energy Project Finance Modeling program know the power of a well-structured model. Learn more how our models help us find the answers! |
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Course Portfolio and Scheduled Courses The courses in our existing portfolio have been developed to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to tackle all the multi-faceted pieces of a transaction. We look forward to assisting you in demystifying project finance and tax equity. Our upcoming public live streaming courses are listed below.
Please register, reserve a place or contact us for any more information. [email protected] or [email protected] |
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Online Courses Available |
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Learn the concepts to develop a financial model related to PPP/P3s for both social and economic infrastructure. A mining financial model will be added to this course soon. Watch this space! |
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Renewable Energy Project Finance Modeling Learn how to develop a best-practice financial model and optimize it for both debt & equity investors for a renewable energy project finance deal. Using a case study, learn the concepts required to develop a financial model related to wind and solar. |
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Introduction to Battery Storage This course provides an overview of standalone batteries and co-located batteries with wind or solar assets. It is designed to familiarize developers, investors, and lenders with the investment decisions and risks of battery storage projects. |
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Learn how to develop a financial model for a copper project with a typical mine plan including ore mined, waste mined, input grades, high- and low-grade stockpiling, and processing recoveries. Understand the key drivers of mining, processing, and transport costs |
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Tax Equity and Hybrid Modeling Gain an overview of the tax equity structures commonly used in U.S. renewable energy investments, with a focus on the development of a financial model. Dive deep into tax capital accounts, deficit restoration obligations, stop loss allocations, and HLBV accounting. |
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Financial Modeling Fundamentals Building a model from a blank spreadsheet.this course bridges the gap between theoretical learning and practical application. Participants will build a best-practice financial model using a real-life case study. You will learn frameworks for evaluating your business and project, including future cash flows, income statement balance sheet and cash flow integration, and financial statement analysis.
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Alison Leckie
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Advisory, financial modeling, and training courses within climate change, sustainable finance, renewable energy, and infrastructure.
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