PPA Deal with 3 Investors: Questions to Ask to Model and Structure the PPA

When you’re working on a PPA deal with multiple investors you need to know each investor’s end goal and then structure the PPA accordingly. Do you need to consider a Partnership Flip or the Unstructured model returns? Here’s a discussion from our Solar Executive MBA training. Please share your experience with this type of deal in the comments […]

Solar Partnership Flip: Alive and Well in 2016

Chris Lord discusses partnership flips under the IRC
As Mark Twain once said, “News of the recent death of the partnership flip for solar transactions is greatly exaggerated.”

Okay, he didn’t exactly refer to partnership flips; he was talking about a newspaper article that prematurely reported his death. But in the case of the partnership flip in […]

How Commercial Real Estate Owners Deal with Solar PPA Pricing Risk

In the 10-minute video above, Darien Crimmin, VP of Energy and Sustainability for WinnDevelopment, describes how he looks at the pricing risk of signing solar PPAs from the perspective of a large property owner. WinnDevelopment has a $2.5 billion real-estate portfolio across 23 states and Darien is responsible for determining if solar is built on their […]

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The Most Common Solar PPA Modeling Mistake, The Fix, and a Free Tool

This article will address the most common error that developers and EPCs make when modeling commercial solar PPAs. The video below will discuss the problem, the solution, and provide a free tool you can download so you can work through the answer yourself.

This article is part of a series common topics and questions that professionals […]

Solar Executive MBA – Learn How to Model, Price, and Find Investors for Your Commercial Solar Projects

Whose job is it to understand all of the numbers behind a commercial or utility-scale solar project?
“That’s somebody else’s job,” is the response we hear from most people in the solar industry.  We built the Solar Executive MBA for those who want to do the hard part.

When you’re at the top of your organization, where […]