Investing in the renewable power market: how to profit from energy transformation

The financial challenges facing clean energy installations The path to the widespread adoption of renewable energy is littered with major technological legal, political, and financial challenges. Investing in the Renewable Power Market is a reality check for the mass roll out of green energy and its financial dominance of the world energy market, focusing on real energy costs and globalenergy needs over the next decade. If green energy is to be truly successful,the market must be properly understood, so that dreams of a green future do not lead to actual energy nightmares.The first book to cover the major investing challenges and monetary constraints placed on electric power companies as they race to meet their green energy requirements, Investing in the Renewable Power Market explains how generating electricity is totally different from otherenergy enterprises in that it is highly regulated and its product cannot be stored. This combination greatly affects the finances of renewable power and influences how investors should navigate the energy market. To help the reader better understand the current state of the alternative energy industry, the book: Details the challenges facing green energy, such as the fact that it is priced compared to natural gas, which is currently at an all-time low Analyzes real energy costs and the global demand for energy over the next decade Describes why, in the short term, investment opportunities with renewable power will be with financial and operational restructurings The green energy market is currently facing enormous challenges, but Investing in the Renewable Power Marketexplains the real costs of energy, the future of the energy market, and how to profit in both the long and short term. INDICE : Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 An Overview of Renewable Power It's All About Natural Gas Control of CO2 Emissions Is Not Currently Possible Cogeneration as a CO2 Control Technology Reality of Demand Side Management Summary: Renewable Power Plants Compete in a World of Operating Fossil PowerPlants and Currently Inexpensive Natural Gas Chapter 2 Analyzing Power Project Economics Regulated Utilities Evaluating a Power Plant Financing a Power Plant Hedge Providers Opportunities with Distressed Renewables Summary: Understanding the Energy Business Means Knowing How a Power Plant Can Be Financed and Hedged Chapter 3 The Challenges of Renewable Power Projects Tax Issues Passive Loss Special Exemptions Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) Leveraged Lease Structure Partnership Flip Transactions New Market Tax Credits (NMTCs) Summary: Renewable Projects Only Produce a Small Amount of EBITDA They are Dependent on Leveraging the Tax Code Chapter 4 Risk Assessment for Power Projects Project Risk Assessment and Risk Mitigations Pre-Completion Risks/Mitigants Post-Completion Risks/Mitigants Summary: For Either Fossil or Renewable Power Projects, Understanding and Managing Risk during Development, Construction and Operation is Critical Chapter 5 Exploiting Profitability of Distressed and Abandoned Municipal Power Plants Waste-Fuel Projects Have Key Financial Advantages for Investors Duties of Professionals in a Municipal Power Plant The Professional Feasibility Study Engineer Disclosures of Risks in the Bond Offering Materials Calculation of Debt Service Coverage Investment Opportunities at Troubled Municipal Power Plants Summary: Municipal Bond Backed Power Plants Can Be Area for Investment Opportunity Chapter 6 Energy Storage Cheap Energy Storage -- The MostVital Game Changer in the World Categories of Energy Storage Technologies U.S. Regional Multi-Energy Storage Collaborations Flywheel Technology Energy Storage Has the Lowest Cycle-Life-Cost Summary: Since Renewable Power Plants Dont Supply Power 7 Days a Week/24 Hours a Day, Their Future Success Will be Determined by Energy Storage Chapter 7 Shale Natural Gas and Its Effect on RenewablePower Fracking New Attitudes in Natural Gas Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Cost of Production Summary: Shale Gas Has Challenged the Economics of Coal, Renewable Power, and Demand Side Management Chapter 8 Solar PV and Solar Thermal Power Plants The Economics of Solar Power Financing Techniques The Technology Summary: Solar Power Has Two Main Technologies and Faces a Number of Challenges Including a Large Land Requirement Chapter 9 Wind Power Plants Projects OverviewWind Project Economics Wind Project Tax Attributes Investment Tax Credit versus Production Tax Credit Wind Project Power Contracting Transmission Constraints Opportunities with Distressed Wind Projects Wind Energy Prediction Summary:Wind Projects Have a Low Capacity Factor and are Dependent on Tax Benefits Chapter 10 Electric Power Transmission Overview

• ISBN: 978-0-470-87826-2
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 208
• Fecha Publicación: 21/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés