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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.

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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 

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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.

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Cracking Open the Underwriting Vault: Insights ...
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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.

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Norton Rose Fulbright Ep70: Solar Refinancing and M&A Full Transcript

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Richard Matsui, founder and CEO of kWh Analytics, is back to give us an update on their Solar Lendscape from the asset owners’ perspective. We get into their methodology, discuss the recent trend of refinancing and how refinancing is being built into models, strategic partnerships in the industry and more.

Fintech and clean tech? An odd couple or a perfect marriage?

Though the conversation around energy resources and decarbonization often focuses on politics, a significant portion of decisions made in the energy generation business is driven by pure economics — Is it cheaper to run X resource relative to resources Y and Z at a given point in time?

Norton Rose Fulbright Ep61: Solar Risk Assessment Report

In Episode 61, Richard Matsui, CEO and co-founder of kWh Analytics, and Dana Olson, solar segment leader at DNV GL, join us to discuss the recently published “Solar Risk Assessment” report in which they, along with industry experts from eight other companies, share their quantitative insights on solar production risk.

New ‘Solar Risk Assessment: 2019’ Features Quantitative Insights from the Industry Experts

Industry experts in solar production risk kWh Analytics, DNV GL, PV Evolution Labs, Borrego Solar, Clean Power Research, Heliolytics, Clean Energy Associates, Strata Solar, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, and SunPower have partnered to publish the new ‘Solar Risk Assessment: 2019’ report to advance the solar industry.

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Demystifying Bank Asset Management with U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo, and kWh Analytics

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Bank asset management is known to be an opaque subject. Thankfully, Diana Weis and Sarah Disch, each co-heads of the Solar Asset Management groups at their organizations, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo Bank respectively, shared their expertise at SAMNA 2019.