2021 PROJECT DEVELOPMENT FOR POWER AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

 

 

DATES: MAR 29 - APR 9, 2021    
         
VENUE: LIVE ONLINE COURSE    apply now button  
       
TUITION: $4200  
       

 

 

 

 

 

Overview


This seminar explores the key steps to creating bankable power projects, with a focus on renewable energy. This seminar will be held concurrently and share some sessions with the “Project Preparation, Analysis, Feasibility, and Financing” seminar.  Read more...

 

Format

The seminar will be delivered through 10 live online sessions via videoconferencing platform. Each session will last approximately 3.5 hours and will start at a time to be announced closer to the seminar, but the starting time will be within a time window of 7:00 am – 8:30 am Washington DC time (Eastern Standard Time). We expect the classes to be highly interactive and will include presentations, case studies and exercises.

 

 
Course Outline

 

Introduction to the Power/Renewable Energy Market and Technologies; Current Trends and Developments.

 

Project Lifecycle

  • Project assessment, identification and preparation
  • Project development context

Assessing Project Viability

  • Technical, economic and financial analysis
  • Fiscal impact
  • Cost recovery
  • Operations and maintenance

Source of Funding

  • External Assistance and multilateral development agencies
  • Project finance

Financing and Approval

  • Public or private ownership
  • Role of PPP laws and regulations

 

Risk Analysis

  • Country
  • Financial
  • Policy and regulatory
  • Technical and project specific

 

Sustainability

  • Institutional aspects
  • Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) considerations

 

Power Sector Fundamentals

  • Power purchase agreements
  • Tariffs
  • Procurement issues; Auctions
  • Interconnection and permitting
  • Power financing

 

Specific Issues for Renewable Energy Project

 


Course Advisor

Don De Amicis - is a Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches international business transactions, and a Senior Advisor at the International Law Institute.  He was previously Vice President and General Counsel of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the U.S. government’s development finance institution, which supports private investment through project finance and political risk insurance. Don was a partner at the international law firm Ropes & Gray, where he focused on finance, corporate law, and restructuring. He is a member of the Sanctions Committee of the Inter-American Development Bank and the Enforcement Committee of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and also serves as an independent arbitrator.