July 24, 2024

Solar Revenue Put

kWh Analytics

Powering Progress: Winds of Change

kWh Analytics, along with Munich Re and MUFG, have just closed on a groundbreaking new structure - the Wind Proxy Hedge structured with the kWh Analytics “Indifference Structure” - for a 59 MW wind project in Maine, developed by Greenbacker Capital Management. Notably, the Wind Proxy Hedge creates a floor on revenues tied to a lack of wind resource and provides lenders with additional cash flows when considering downside debt sizing cases.

July 1, 2024

kWh Analytics

Bringing solar availability assumptions back ...

PV system modeling relies on a standard assumption of 99% availability as the basis for forecasting output. But, as Hannah Rasmussen of kWh Analytics argues, the adoption of a more realistic metric would improve accuracy in financing and a more economically resilient solar asset class

June 25, 2024

kWh Analytics

2024 Solar Risk Assessment: Audiobook Edition ...

Jason Kaminsky, CEO of kWh Analytics, joins Norton Rose Fulbright and the Currents podcast to discuss this year’s Solar Risk Assessment report published by kWh. He summarizes the findings in the report, including risks to the battery energy storage industry. Additionally, for the first time, kWh Analytics has released a full audiobook version of the 2024 Solar Risk Assessment.

February 7, 2024

Property & Casualty

kWh Analytics

Cracking Open the Underwriting Vault: Insights ...

November 3, 2023

Solar Revenue Put

kWh Analytics

Behind the Scenes of Solar Project Finance with ...

In this episode of The Solar Podcast, Alex Deng, Director of Business Development, joins host Dave Anderson to lift the veil on solar project finance and insurance, explaining the key but unseen role insurance plays in getting renewable energy projects built.

kWh Analytics

January 17, 2019

DealFlow

DealFlow V

kWh Analytics

January 17, 2019

DealFlow

In the fifth edition of DealFlow, we tracked over 8 GW of solar financings and M&A transactions in the solar markets for the period.

kWh Team Members

May 1, 2018

DealFlow

kWh Analytics tracks $8 billion in U.S. solar deals so far in 2018

kWh Team Members

May 1, 2018

DealFlow

The Spring DealFlow report from kWh Analytics highlighted 17 Asset Transactions and 19 Asset Financings deals year to date.

kWh Team Members

January 25, 2018

DealFlow

Winter 2018 DealFlow from kWh Analytics

kWh Team Members

January 25, 2018

DealFlow

Since we are all focused on the impacts of the Section 201 ruling and the latest tariffs, we thought it would be a good time to share some uplifting news that we are tracking in our data: The fourth quarter had a tremendous amount of deal activity, with over 50 deals closed during the quarter valued at over $9 billion.

kWh Team Members

September 8, 2017

DealFlow

Announcing DealFlow from kWh Analytics

kWh Team Members

September 8, 2017

DealFlow

We can talk about data all day long, though there’s another topic that solar financiers love even more: Deals.

Because we are in the business of helping sponsors to achieve greater leverage (and to help lenders safely deploy more capital) with our Revenue Put, we see a number of deals that seek debt financing.