Pivotal180 Newsletter December 2025
By Alison Leckie | December 10, 2025
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Dear there, In this newsletter, we have included the following content:
Please feel free to check out all our videos on Pivotal180’s YouTube. Kind regards, The Pivotal180 Team. |
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A Quick Look at Date Centers, a Free Online Resource Our free online Data Center Mini Course has been released, Register Now! In this 5-video mini-course, you’ll learn some terminology, get a quick look at how retail and wholesale data center facilities earn revenue, the major cost drivers that shape their performance, and how they fit within the real estate / infrastructure spectrum. It’s a great starting point if you’re curious about one of today’s most dynamic asset classes. This free course does not include a financial model or a deep dive into the subject. The course will later be expanded to become an industry course with a financial model (not a free course). The free course will be available to everyone for a period of 3 months. We will produce some more detailed lessons and a financial model which will be included in a paid version of the course. The paid course will be an add-on to our project finance modeling courses and will be launched in 2026. |
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2025 Wrap-Up Thank you to all our Pivotal180 clients for helping make 2025 another great year. In 2025, Pivotal180 trained over 2,250 participants. Across 235 teaching days we taught 72 courses for more than 60 clients and 1,100 participants. Our online self-paced course registrations also continued to grow. This training was delivered to over 1,150 students worldwide in 2025. We launched four new online courses this year:
We also introduced our Tax Equity Essentials instructor led program. Last but not least we opened our new office in Sydney, Australia. Please see the dedicated page on our website. Wishing you Happy Holidays and looking forward to training you all again in 2026. |
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Our free resources include videos, blogs, how-to guides, webinars and course samples. |
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What Drives Data Centers’ Costs? The Hidden Forces Behind the Cloud Data center economics come down to two things: power and cooling. |
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Pivotal180’s Holiday Readings for 2025 As the cold mounts, nothing will warm you like the hottest topics in finance, economics, technology, renewables, and more. After you have purchased copies of the books consider giving the gift that keeps on giving: Project Finance and Financial Modeling courses! Read the full article |
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Mastering Tax Equity Under OBBBA: Your Competitive Edge for the Next 30 Months The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has reshaped the clean energy landscape, placing tax credits at the center of project economics. While tax equity has weathered multiple expirations, extensions, and expansions over the past two decades, this is far from an obituary for tax equity. Pivotal180 students asked whether investing in tax equity training still makes sense, here are our top 3 reasons why you should continue to invest in expert-level tax equity training. Learn More |
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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 and in-person courses are listed below.
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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. The course centers on a hospital PPP and toll road, although other sub-sectors are mentioned |
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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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Battery Storage Financial Modeling 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. |
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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 and will learn the frameworks for evaluating your business and projects, including future cash flows, income statement, balance sheet, and financial statement analysis. |
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Introduction to Project Finance Modeling This course is designed to give participants a strong foundation in the core concepts that impact investments and debt structuring in project finance transactions. It’s ideal for beginner modelers, students and professionals who don’t build models daily, but need to understand project finance models and concepts. If you’re a developer, engineer, accountant, or lawyer this could be the right course for you. |
Alison Leckie
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