Renewable Energy Finance

• Renewable Energy Finance serves an audience of readers craving intelligent, practical perspectives on the future of clean energy investment.

• This book provides an insider’s perspective on renewable energy transactions, and insights into how countries like the US, India and China are responding to the global energy challenge.

• It includes a foreword by Lord Brown and contributions from some of the world’s leading experts in energy finance.

• It documents first-hand experiences of the challenges of balancing risk and return amid volatile market conditions and rapid shifts in government policy.

Table of Contents

Section I:

• Introduction to Renewable Energy Finance (Charles Donovan)

• The Clean Energy Imperative (Jim Skea)

• How Much Renewable Energy Will the Global Economy Need? (Guy Turner)

• Investor-Specific Cost of Capital and Renewable Energy Investment Decisions (Thorsten Helms, Sarah Salm & Rolf Wüstenhagen)

Section II:

• Markets, Governments and Renewable Electricity (Richard Green)

• The Impact of Government Policies on Renewable Energy Investment (Gireesh Shrimali)

• Mobilizing Private Sector Capital in Developing Countries (Alexandre Chavarot & Matthew Konieczny)

• Renewable Energy Finance in China (Philip Andrews-Speed & Sufang Zhang)

• Measuring the Carbon Delta of Investment Performance (Celine McInerney & Derek Bunn)

Section III:

• The Growing Role for Private Equity (Brian Potskowski & Chris Hunt)

• Project Finance and the Supply of Credit from Commercial Banks (Alejandro Ciruelos Alonso)

• The Untapped Potential of Institutional Investors (David Nelson)

• The Spectacular Growth of Solar PV Leasing (Bruce Usher & Albert Gore)

• Crowdfunding: Ready for the Big Leagues? (Karl Harder & Sam Friggens)