Training Courses

Financial Modelling for Renewable Energy and Battery Storage Projects (EMEA)

Learn the best approach for modelling the essential components in renewable energy and BESS deals: a practical framework for building reliable, decision-ready financial models, applying our methodology directly to your own projects.

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  • 1 dayPractitioner-led
  • Hands-onInteractive workshops,
    not just theory
  • In person or digitalDelivered in person
    and worldwide online
  • Take awayThe completed model files
    and templates

Who this is for

For renewable energy and BESS professionals

If you work in renewable energy or BESS and have frequent challenges with financial models, this course is for you. It suits anyone who needs to build, review or analyse project models in these sectors, whether for internal investment, operations or strategy, project finance transactions, or greenfield development analysis. Typical attendees include analysts, managers, senior managers, associate directors and CFOs from renewable energy companies.

Course prerequisites: participants are expected to have attended either Best Practice Project Finance Modelling or Advanced Project Finance Modelling, and to work on financial models for renewable energy projects in their current role.

You will get the most from this course if

  • You work in renewable energy or BESS and want a practical, decision-ready modelling framework
  • You have completed Best Practice or Advanced Project Finance Modelling, and work on renewable energy models in your current role
  • You need to model generation, PPA and merchant revenue, and battery storage economics specifically
  • You want hands-on scenario manager and debt sculpting technique for seasonal and contracted or uncontracted cashflows

What you will learn

Build decision-ready renewable energy and BESS models

Generation, debt sculpting and scenario analysis, all covered here in full detail.

  • A practical framework for building reliable, decision-ready financial models across renewable energy and BESS projects
  • Apply our financial modelling methodology and best-practice rules and techniques directly to your own projects
  • Build a flexible, powerful scenario manager to analyse your project’s sensitivity to key drivers
  • Model generation and its key variables
  • Model PPA and merchant revenue streams
  • Understand battery storage project economics, with a focus on the revenue stack
  • Sculpt debt for seasonal and contracted or uncontracted cash flows
  • Extend a standard scenario manager with relevant upside and downside cases
  • Compelling insights from recent market examples, group discussions and interactive workshops

Next available dates

Upcoming courses

How the course runs

A day of interactive workshops, not lectures

Delivered through group discussion, recent market examples and hands-on workshops, applying our modelling methodology directly to renewable energy and BESS scenarios. You leave with a practical framework you can apply immediately.

This course also runs privately: see in-house training for delivery built around your team and sector, or browse the full course portfolio.

Our trainers

Learn from a practitioner

Our courses are led by experienced members of our financial modelling and model audit teams. The trainers below run this course frequently, but your session could be led by any member of our team.

Keshav Rana

Keshav Rana

Associate Director, London

Keshav is an Associate Director in London, managing the financial modelling training business across EMEA. He is an experienced financial modeller with more than 10 years of financial modelling experience, having worked on global projects in renewables (primarily solar and wind), utilities and telecom, as well as a range of corporate and portfolio forecasting and valuation models. Keshav’s focus now is developing and delivering financial modelling training courses, providing tailor-made courses to meet the needs of clients across an ever-changing landscape in the infrastructure and energy sectors.

Leigh Tomlinson

Leigh Tomlinson

Director, London

Leigh is an ACA chartered accountant with over 16 years of financial modelling experience. He has a wide range of sector and international deal experience, and is responsible for leading the development of financial models across the energy, infrastructure and environment sectors.

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