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Finance & Accounting Financial Modeling & Analysis Financial Modeling

Financial modeling | Renewable Energy: Solar & Wind

Learn how build a financial model for solar plants and wind plants, and help seal renewable energy deals worldwide!
Rating: 4.1 out of 54.1 (620 ratings)
2,309 students
Created by DealMaker Financial Training
Last updated 9/2020
English
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • The fundamentals of a power plants' business, and their key value drivers
  • How to model a plant's cashflow performance in Excel
  • How to use this model to assess financing and commercial options for the plant and how they affect its value!

Requirements

  • Be able to build a basic 3-statement model in Excel
  • How to use the index-match combination in Excel

Description

Want to work on RENEWABLE ENERGY deals in WIND and SOLAR power?
Want to be part of the global shift to renewable energy? 
Want to break into a sector that is expected to have $10TRILLION poured into it through 2040? 

THIS is the course for YOU!

Go beyond filling out pre-prepared templates - build complex financial models from scratch!
Make a quantum leap in your financial modeling skills! 
Save hours at work - by learning Excel best practices and VBA!


This course takes an application-led approach which will guide you through an ENTIRE buyout valuation model for a newly operational WIND PLANT or SOLAR PLANT in Excel! 


You'll take a comprehensive a approach learning the BUSINESS AND RISK FUNDAMENTALS of wind and solar power plants' business, including how to find relevant information in technical engineering reports.

You won't just be taught how to build a financial model - you'll learn HOW TO USE IT. 


You'll prepare yourself for to work on solar and wind plant deals ALL AROUND THE WORLD with:

  • Banks

  • Advisory teams

  • Private equity funds

  • Debt funds

  • Industrial developers

  • Asset managers


You'll cover the theory and financial modeling for:

  • Solar and wind plant business and operations

  • Plant risk assessment

  • Debt sizing

  • Debt service sculpting/tailoring/payment structuring

  • Lender covenants

  • Complex cash waterfalls

  • Debt service ratios

  • Dynamic charts and dashboard design

  • Circular calculations common in plant financing deals


Your financial model will:

  • Handle complex financial engineering and analysis applicable to most wind and solar buyout deals

  • Calculate returns, a fair buyout price, and industry-specific multiple

  • Give you flexibility to assess multiple financing arrangements

  • Have clean, efficient VBA code to speed up your analysis and free up your time

  • Follow the very best practices actually used by professionals in the industry

 


This course gives you all the pro tips you'd other have to pay $1,000s to access as part of a corporate training programme!! 


DON'T WAIT ON YOUR BOSS TO APPROVE THE TRAINING YOU DESERVE!!


ENROLL NOW - there's ZERO RISK as you're covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee! 
(https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/229604248-Refund-a-Course)

Who this course is for:

  • Students and young professionals interested in supporting commercial and financial deals for solar and wind power plants!

Course content

4 sections • 27 lectures • 2h 12m total length

  • Preview02:12

  • Preview05:16
  • Preview01:57
  • Solar and wind generation - losses
    05:11
  • Solar and wind generation - variability pt.1
    03:02
  • Solar and wind generation - variability pt.2
    03:35
  • Solar and wind generation - variability pt.3
    03:03
  • Renewable power plant concept checker
    10 questions

  • Setting up the model
    17:19
  • Preview04:34
  • Modelling plant commercial activity
    07:10
  • Setting up the waterfall and financial statements
    02:48
  • Modelling debt and interest
    06:26
  • Debt sizing and sculpting
    10:59
  • Preview03:51
  • Modelling depreciation and amortisation
    03:00
  • Modelling tax
    01:43
  • Managing circularities in debt sizing
    09:53
  • Debt sizing with multiple case testing
    18:57
  • Handling multiple stakeholder views
    04:58
  • Modelling lender covenants
    02:43
  • Modelling equity cashflows
    03:42
  • Valuing the buyout
    02:28
  • Automating the fair price calculation
    01:05
  • Perfecting the dashboard
    05:14

  • Exercise questions and materials
    00:05
  • Answers to exercises
    00:03
  • BONUS
    00:49

Instructor

DealMaker Financial Training
Financial modeling and Excel VBA training
DealMaker Financial Training
  • 4.2 Instructor Rating
  • 1,833 Reviews
  • 11,721 Students
  • 5 Courses

DealMaker is a professional training brand developed by Roderick McKinley, CFA, a business and finance professional with a passion for Excel and learning.

He has used Excel in business applications over 9 years. Major successes in that period include developing global power-sector forecasts for Bloomberg; winning contracts in a competitive bid process in Chile for wind farms valued at over $2bn, and financing a $585m wind deal.

Outside of business Roderick has had a longstanding engagement with education having taught at secondary school, presented to university undergraduates, and providing professional training and CFA coaching in the workplace.

DealMaker brings together both professional and educational experiences to create a top-level teaching product accessible to internet students world-wide.

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