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!
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Course outline
3 modules • 16 assignments • 2:31 hours of video lectures
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
Watch these Q+A videos with Chris and Keith.
- 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
Watch these Q+A videos with Chris and Keith.
- 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
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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... Learn more
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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... Learn more
