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Project Finance: renewables under pressure?

The low-price situation in the energy markets may put the profitability of the new renewable energy projects at risk.

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2 years ago
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The low-price situation in the energy markets may put the profitability of the new renewable energy projects at risk. The experts agree that, while it will be difficult to see again the high levels of return of investment that were seen in the past, in the long term the projects remain profitable. This article is the first part of the summary of the content of the webinar organised by AleaSoft with the participation of Deloitte.

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The profitability of the renewable energy projects

Given the current situation of uncertainty and generally low prices in the energy markets, the profitability of the new and existing electricity production projects from renewable sources is an issue of concern to the energy sector in Europe. The conclusions of the debate, in which all the speakers agreed, were that, although the conditions changed, the projects continue to be profitable.

Now, where there was also consensus, was that double‑digit returns can no longer be expected as there were in 2018 when the energy prices were double those of today. Currently, in most cases, they are talking about returns below 10%, and always thinking about the exploitation of a long-term project.

The profitability of each specific project will depend on many aspects of the project itself: financing, size of the debt, equivalent hours of energy production, etc. But aspects external to the project will also have an impact and one of the most important is the electricity market prices.

The need for a “proper and educated vision” of the market future

As new projects without aid with feed-in tariff schemes occupy the electricity production market, market price risk becomes the biggest concern for investors and banks when financing new projects. Due to this, the speakers agreed on the need to have a “proper and educated vision” of the future of market prices.

It is not about having an idea of what the trend of the average annual or quarterly market prices will be in the future, it is necessary to have hourly prices forecasting in the long term that allow estimating the captured price of the project with respect to the average market prices, known as price factor. That is the only way to be able to consistently analyse the future cash-flows of the project and establish the expected profitability. If the forecasts also have confidence bands with a probabilistic metric, it will be possible to calculate and quantify the risk associated with assuming a certain price forecast.

Financing renewable energy projects in the energy transition

The unstoppable energy transition process to which all of Europe is subjected adds another level of uncertainty to the current situation and in the medium and long term. All the new renewable energy capacity that is going to enter the electricity generation mix will have an impact on the prices of the electricity markets that the prices forecasting must consider.

In the midst of the uncertainty that the global economic crisis is creating, the message conveyed by the webinar speakers is that, although the amount of money that is needed to carry out the renewable energy capacity targets established by the Energy and Climate Plans of the European Union countries is high, the financing of new projects continues to be active, there are agents with an investor appetite and banks feel comfortable lending money for 16 or 18-year projects.

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