Insights
Short pieces on preparing, pricing, and placing solar projects under 20 MW, for the developers who build them and the desks that fund them.
Due diligence
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What a lender sees in the first ten minutes of your data room.
The analyst is not reading. They are scanning for a reason to stop.
Due diligence
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Solar Development Value Creation
Someone offers you a ready-to-go project with a delicious IRR. Then you learn they only hold an LOI. Here is where development value is actually created.
Capital
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Sponsor equity is scarce
Finding good sponsors for solar projects can feel like hunting for bigfoot. Here is what investors in this asset class have looked for, and what has changed.
Financial modeling
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The mystery of underwriting your next solar project, secrets revealed.
Underwriting a solar asset is not a mystery. Finance partners work from a detailed checklist, looking for proof behind every representation you make.
Education
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How to Get Your Next PPA in 7 Steps
Seven steps from site control to a signed PPA, and why projects stall in limbo as the year-end finance window closes.
Market
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“We have a huge pipeline of projects we need funded, right away”.
EPCs, developers, and finance partners hear it all the time. What is usually missing from the conversation are the details.
Financial modeling
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The valuation of your project falls into 3 general buckets.
As Q4 approaches, late-stage projects seeking buyers pick up speed. Here are the three buckets your valuation falls into.
Due diligence
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What is a Data Room and why is it needed to sell or collaborate on your project or portfolio?
Why a data room is needed to sell or collaborate on a project or portfolio. Download the PDF for the full perspective.
Due diligence
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Solar development and financing have a lot to do with a "crime scene".
Like a CSI investigation, solar financing comes down to evidence. Lenders follow the clues in your documents to get to the truth about a project.
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