Mastering Commercial Solar Finance - Self Study
About this course
Enroll and you'll access...
-Over 2.5 hours of video with Chris and Keith
-A comprehensive, downloadable takeaway guide
-Advice from a $20MM solar tax equity investor [interview]
Learn about...
Non Profit Solar Financing Best Practices
- Crowd funding, investors, due diligence, passive income & lease vs. PPA agreements
Commercial Solar PPA Best Practices
- Finding, pitching, and managing tax equity investors, pre-tax vs. post-tax ROI, master PPAs, financing, working your first deal, project proposal executive summaries
...and much more!
Course outline
Module 1 • 1 assignments
Guide to Mastering Commercial Solar Finance
- Read the Guide to Mastering Commercial Solar Finance (.pdf)
Module 2 • 8 assignments
Due Diligence, Crowdfunding, and Finding Investors for Nonprofit Solar PPAs
- Chris and Keith answer questions 1 - 5 (53:34 minutes)
- [Interview] Advice from a $20MM Solar PV Investor to Commercial Solar Installers
- Pre-Tax vs. Post-Tax ROI (10:56 minutes)
- Master PPAs (05:53 minutes)
- Financing in CT ZREC Market (06:36 minutes)
- Residual Value (08:07 minutes)
- Owner/Lessor Arrangements (06:12 minutes)
- Risks with Non-Profit PPAs (10:39 minutes)
Module 3 • 5 assignments
Finding, Pitching, and Managing Solar Tax Equity Investors
- Investors + Development Timeline (10:11 minutes)
- Executive Summary for Investor Project Proposals (11:07 minutes)
- Working Your First Deal (10:19 minutes)
- Managing Investor Communications (10:19 minutes)
- Vetting & Finding Investors (07:33 minutes)
Authors
Chris Lord
Christopher J. Lord is the Managing Director of CapIron, Inc., a firm focused, among other things, on helping clients plan, structure and close financings involving renewable energy projects, including Distributed Generation and Utility-Scale Projects. Mr. Lord graduated from Cornell Law School, and practiced corporate law in firms, and in-house, for over 25 years. He...
Keith Cronin
What kind of world do you want to live in? Two plus decades of cleantech experience on our journey together to sequester carbon in meaningful ways. Blessed with a multidisciplinary skill set of development, finance, business, and deep connections globally. The road to your destiny is often a curved line. After a decade on the East Coast, it catapulted me to Hawaii to...
