Renewable Energy Hedging for Today's Markets - Presented by Infocast

Grasp What’s New in Renewable Energy Hedge Agreements & Manage Today’s Risks to Get Deals Done

With supply chain woes, tariff changes and the anti-dumping investigation, the war in Ukraine, extreme weather, and other unforeseeable events rocking the markets, renewable energy projects need cost and revenue certainty now more than ever. For more and more projects, hedges are the key to successfully create this certainty and secure tax equity and other financings, as hedges become a larger part of development, finance, and risk management. However, hedging involves complex tradeoffs, and it can be difficult to understand the pros and cons of various hedge products. Moreover, risk assessments have changed drastically over the past year as the market is beset with unforeseeable uncertainties. As hedge provisions change with the markets, counterparties must learn which provisions are still moving forward, and how they impact the risks and rewards of renewable energy projects.

Infocast has built on its strong history of highly-regarded training in the hedging arena to produce a fully-up-to-date Renewable Energy Hedging for Today's Markets Master Class. It is a truly unique opportunity for attendees to get:

  • a comprehensive, working understanding of hedge types and uses
  • a full analysis of what provisions are most important to a deal, what risks each provision mitigate, and at what price
  • training in the best strategies for negotiating hedges, including a thorough background briefing on the current state of the hedging market, how counterparties view risk assessments, and what those counterparties need from a deal

Our instructors are active on a daily basis in utilizing and negotiating hedges for renewable energy projects, and this is your best opportunity to get your toughest questions answered in a live, interactive, face-to-face format. They will provide a deep dive in the strategies available for mitigating basis risk, show you how to review a term sheet and the legal documentation for hedging arrangements, ensure that you have the skills to protect collateral and interparty rights, walk you through the pros and cons of each type of hedge and its direct and indirect relationship with relevant project risks, and give you the opportunity to profit from both the expertise of the faculty and the knowledge of your peers through extensive Q&A sessions and feedback. This is the only course at this level of sophistication and depth with an exclusive focus on renewable energy hedging markets, contracts and structures – don’t miss it.

Review our thorough Master Class curriculum outline, look at our faculty bios, and reserve your place today!

CLASS TAKEAWAYS

 

Come up to the cutting edge at Infocast’s live, in-person event—the only course at this level of sophistication and depth with an exclusive focus on hedging markets, contracts and structures for successful renewable energy projects:

  • Understanding federal tax incentives and the situation now
  • Become adept at strategies for negotiating provisions based on the risk profiles and needs of each party to a hedge
  • Receive a detailed analysis of lessons learned from the Texas extreme weather event and how it changed the outlooks of every major party to a hedge
  • Get a detailed understanding of how today’s lenders and tax equity investors consider basis risk, volume risk, shape risk and covariance risk
  • Learn best practices for handling mandatory prepayment triggers, tracking accounts, reserve accounts, distribution blocks, as well as optimal approaches to assessing collateral assignments, interparty agreements and other collateral matters
  • Hear how market uncertainty impacts project valuation and hedging approaches you can adopt to optimize your project’s value

MASTER CLASS FEATURES

 

10+

Hours of Content

Expert-designed, highly-relevant curriculum

7

Expert Instructors

Direct access to top industry experts and practitioners

In-Person Learning

Optimized professional learning format and setting

Expand Your Network

Connect with top professionals in your industry

INSTRUCTORS

 

  • Lead Instructors

    Dan Lynch
    Partner
    AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP

    Jeff Cohen
    Partner
    AKIN GUMP STRAUSS HAUER & FELD LLP

    Angelin Baskaran
    Managing Director
    MORGAN STANLEY

    Bailey Johnson
    Vice President, Renewable Energy & Environmental Finance
    WELLS FARGO

    Sondra Martinez
    Managing Director
    NORD/LB

    Abdul Syed
    Energy & Global Infrastructure
    GOOGLE

    Lee Taylor
    CEO
    RESURETY

AGENDA

 

Live Q&A and discussion following each session


July 20, 2022 | 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Session 1: Hedge Finance for Energy Projects--Why Hedging is Big in Today's Market
Session 2: Key Terms in Renewable Energy Hedges
Session 3: Assessing & Mitigating Basis Risk
Session 4: Hedging in Renewable Financing: How the Hedge Piece Fits into the Overall Financings

July 21, 2022 | 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM EST

Session 5: Beyond the Basics: Typical Hedge Features and Calculations
Session 6: Deviations from the Standard Renewable Energy Swap
Session 7: Understanding and Protecting Collateral and Interparty Rights
Session 8: Understanding Risk Tolerance in Today’s Market
Session 9: Contractual Reactions to Current Events
Session 10: Understanding & Using Proxy Generation Instruments
Session 11: Recap: Recent Developments in & Top Issues for Renewable Energy Hedges


Nuanced, up-to-date, forward-looking, and contextually presented, the class expanded the depth of our firm’s competency for financial transactions.

- Greg Poulos, CEO, ArcVera Renewables


The Master Class was very efficient, educational, effective and productive, and I will do more of these regardless of if we are traveling and going to in-person.

- Peter Blood, Founder and Managing Partner, CYCLE

 

VENUE

 

This Master Class will be held at the following location:
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Offices in New York, NY

Bank of America Tower
1 Bryant Pk, 43rd Floor
New York, NY 10036
+1 222.872.1000

You must be fully vaccinated (as part of the venue's requirement) to attend this event.
Masks Highly Recommended.

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