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Avoiding modelling errors in solar and wind projects

Where financial models for solar and wind projects most often go wrong, and how to avoid, find and correct the errors before they reach a decision.

Webinar · Recording · Presented by Ben Kwan and Nidhi Kapania · 24 March 2023

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Developing, structuring and investing in solar and wind projects relies on financial models that analyse the base case and scenarios reliably. This webinar sets out the errors we see most often in models for the sector, and how to avoid, find and correct them.

Our financial modelling team builds, audits and values models for solar and wind projects, and the same errors come up again and again in four areas.

Where the errors are

  • Electricity generation: assumptions, logic and outputs
  • Power purchase agreements (PPAs)
  • The financing sections of the model: debt, interest and capital
  • Other areas where errors are common

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