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Performance-Based Investment Financing

In: Energy Efficiency

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  • Leslie A. Solmes

    (LAS & Associaties)

Abstract

Mitigating risks associated with investments in energy supply efficiency require performance-based financing. The author writes about her experience with the US DOE Rebuild America program and how performance metrics and project financing are integral to energy infrastructure financing. Using stories from the Universities of CA Santa Barbara and MD, College Park, she explains the financial structures of traditional independent power projects and how they have been applied to integrated energy supply investments. She resolves client business goals with their perceived financing constraints and restates the real investment opportunity. She explains the motivation and the means to use existing state investment authorities like economic development agencies and joint powers authorities to provide low cost financing and diversify risk. Examples of how projects can be financed off-balance sheet are described as well as the benefits to customers and suppliers. Incentives for establishing investment funds that earn guaranteed rates of return are presented and a comparison made to the risks of traditional investment options especially for pension funds and other critical societal funds.

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  • Leslie A. Solmes, 2009. "Performance-Based Investment Financing," Springer Books, in: Leslie A. Solmes (ed.), Energy Efficiency, chapter 11, pages 133-143, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-90-481-3321-5_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3321-5_12
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