About this course
After taking this course you will understand:
- The variables that go into modeling a commercial solar PV project
- The basics of community solar legal structures
- The most common legal structures used to finance commercial solar projects and how they vary based on regulations and investor concerns
- The variables that determine the financial feasibility of microgrids
Course outline
Module 1 • 8 assignments
Legal Structures 101
Module 2 • 2 assignments
Due Diligence and Bankability
Authors
Keith Cronin
Two-plus decades in cleantech, spanning development, finance, and advisory work across the US, Hawaii, and Southeast Asia. I founded a Hawaii solar company that SunEdison acquired in 2007 — a path that started, improbably, with a 2002 cold call from Jigar Shah at BP Solar looking for a way into the Hawaii market. That call became a lasting friendship and set the...
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...