Economic and Financial Analysis

The economic and financial viability of proposed Renewable Energy Projects is at the forefront of concern for regulators, utilities, developers, governmental entities, and other stakeholders. In the emerging competitive environment for renewables, this concern is more important than ever and is complicated by new concerns that have heretofore been of little importance. These concerns include the identification of current and potential competitors, competitive solicitation for renewable projects, feed-in tariffs, governmental incentives, both real and perceived barriers to market entry and exit, financial risk assessment, and other business concerns in a rapidly accelerating marketplace for the development, siting, implementation and operation of renewable energy projects.

ERG Renewable Energy Consulting Group, LLC has the comprehensive capability required in the performance of Economic/Financial Feasibility Studies which have as their focus the mitigation of project risks for all stakeholders, including:

• Financial and strategic planning
• Development of Responses to RFPs
• Parameter forecast development and evaluation
• Cost/benefit analyses
• Rate and regulatory risk mitigation and analysis
• Pro-forma financial modeling and capital budget analysis of various alternatives
• Valuations and Appraisal
• Alternative investment and/or operations evaluations
• Financing Support
• Feasibility studies and capital market assessments
• Capital financing evaluations and opinions
• Presentations to investors, security analysts, rating agencies
• Business plan development
• Integration of the renewable project into a utility's integrated resource plan
• Evaluation and integration of project schedules and project cash flows