ESG for Renewable Energy Financing

A Unique Deep Dive into Optimizing ESG Performance and Reporting for Renewable Energy Companies to Improve Valuations, Investments, Financing, Development Choices, and Procurement Decisions

“Interest in renewables is surging as ...environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues drive more corporate decisions leading to a record 24.7 GW of solar projects acquired globally in the second quarter of this year”

– Mercom Capital Group,
1H and Q2 Solar Funding and M&A Report

“The stakes of disclosure are rising…as both institutional and retail investment surges into assets tied to environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles. Sustainability related financing has tripled since 2015, with a tenfold increase in flows to ESG funds, an eight-fold increase in sustainable debt issuance and a doubling in the value of ESG-related deals by private equity and venture capital firms, according to a report by Generation Investment Management.”

– Utility Dive, August 2, 2021

As capital markets, investors, lenders and corporate off-takers accelerate their engagement with the challenges of global warming and other environmental threats, the development of formalized ESG (environmental, social and governance) principles has created great opportunities for renewable energy developers to increase company and project valuations, be more focused in their own M&A decisions, improve their own business processes and those of their suppliers, and obtain financing more easily and at more favorable rates.

However, the relatively recent development of multiple ESG standards and reporting formats, none of which were specifically developed for renewable energy developers, can make it difficult to know exactly how to align their business processes to maximize ESG performance and how to communicate their success at implementing these principles to critical outside partners and investors.

Infocast has organized this Master Class to provide the only in-depth industry-targeted discussion available on how renewable energy companies can navigate this uncertainty to both successfully manage for maximum ESG performance in their development activities and how they can communicate their ESG success via the most up-to-date and appropriate reporting protocols.

Please review our remarkable faculty and our curriculum outline for the very first such course to be aimed directly for the renewable energy industry, and reserve your place today.

CLASS TAKEAWAYS

Taught by active market participants who are engaging with ESG issues daily, this Master Class will permit renewable development firms to:

Examine the core aspects and key challenges of accounting for ESG factors in the context of renewable energy project development and operation, as well as corporate finance
Identify ESG issues throughout the renewable energy project life cycle that can impact obtaining investment and financing, and operational cost
Get a detailed explanation of how ESG factors flow through project transaction documents to provide an understanding of ESG’s role and impact on contractual agreements & terms
Obtain tools and techniques to help identify and manage long-term risk grounded in ESG factors
Develop strategies to handle renewable energy project-specific risks such as load, shape and price risk and their interrelation with ESG principles

MASTER CLASS FEATURES

10+

Hours of Content

Expert-designed, highly-relevant curriculum

20+

Instructors

Learn from industry leaders and key decision makers

Live Participation

Live discussion and Q&A following every session

On-Demand

Participate live or at your own pace from anywhere, up to 30 days

Connect

Expand your professional network

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INSTRUCTORS

Co-Lead Instructors

Elizabeth Crouse
Partner
K&L GATES LLP

Lana Le Hir
Senior Associate
K&L GATES LLP

Contributing Instructors

Laura Caspari
Vice President, Head of Power Marketing and Commercial Strategy,
ENGIE

Gilbert Campbell
Co-Founder and CEO
VOLT ENERGY

Holly Christie
General Counsel
HECATE ENERGY

Danielle Decatur
Director of Datacenter Environmental Sustainability
MICROSOFT
Contributing Instructors

Michael W. Kolodner, CPCU, ARM, ARe
Managing Director, Power & Renewables Industry Practice Leader, Energy & Power, United States
MARSH MCLENNAN

Beth O'Brien
Director, External Affairs and Sustainability
PATTERN ENERGY

Danny Splettstosser
Vice President, Origination & Investor Relations, Americas
RES AMERICA DEVELOPMENTS, INC.

Dahvi Wilson
Vice President of Public Affairs
APEX CLEAN ENERGY, INC.

Stacy Xiao
Director, ESG Solutions
SUSTAINABLE CAPITAL ADVISORS

Jeff Cohen
Partner
K&L GATES LLP

Stacy Ettinger
Partner
K&L GATES LLP

Kimberly Frank
Partner
K&L GATES LLP
Contributing Instructors

Amy C. Hoang
Partner
K&L GATES LLP

Craig Leen
Partner
K&L GATES LLP

Michael W. McGrath
Partner
K&L GATES LLP

Marisa Murillo
Partner
K&L GATES LLP

Anthony Nolan
Partner
K&L GATES LLP

Laurie Purpuro
Government Affairs Advisor
K&L GATES LLP

Kitt Ritter
Associate
K&L GATES LLP

Julie Rizzo
Partner
K&L GATES LLP

Bill Semins
Partner
K&L GATES LLP