1. Energy Insight Package – Renewable Energy
The world’s energy system is undergoing a profound transformation: from high-carbon, centralized and
insecure to low-carbon, distributed and robust. With a strong foundation of news and industry data, New
Energy Finance’s Renewable Energy Insight package is the ultimate research and information service for
investors, executives and policy-makers.
Service Components & Features
The Renewable Energy package pulls together each of our Renewable Energy Insight sectors:
- Wind: Onshore and offshore.
- Solar: PV: crystalline silicon (all chemistries), thin-
film, and concentrator, Solar Thermal Electricity
Generation “STEG” and solar passive.
- Biofuels: First-generation ethanol, biodiesel,
cellulosic ethanol, biobutanol, algae, jatropha.
- Biomass and Waste to Energy (WtE): Incineration,
co-firing, gasification, anaerobic digestion and
landfill gas power.
- Geothermal: Low temperature turbines, Cost
reducing drilling technologies, EGS.
- Hydro: Small hydro, projects under 50MW, low-
head hydro projects.
- Marine: Wave and tide, via tidal barrages, tidal
fences, tidal flow generators or wave devices.
Service Overview
Subscribers enjoy the full range of Insight benefits for the sectors covered, including regular Research
Notes, Analyst Reactions, Quarterly Outlooks, Conference Calls and Analyst Access. In addition, subscribers
receive three accounts to access Industry Intelligence, and receive daily NewsWatch and Monthly Briefings.
Our Renewable Energy Insight package contains a variety of sector specific models.
- Demand forecast: Wind capacity, Solar market, EU gasoline/diesel demand, Next generation biofuels
production, Electric vehicle penetration, Biomass and WtE pipeline
- Price: Turbine price index, Silicon and Wafer Forward Price Index, Short term silicon, Solar cells and
module pricing, US ethanol pricing
- Finance: US Production tax equity structures, Solar discounted cash flow
- LCOE: Wind, Solar, Biomass, Geothermal, Marine
- Margins: Ethanol, Biodiesel
- Import cost: Brazilian ethanol
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2. - Supply: Global turbine supply, Solar manufacturing capacity, Biofuels and biomass capacity, Wood
pellet supply/demand
- Cost: Geothermal drilling cost
- Proprietary data sets - Each Insight teams has developed proprietary models to forecast markets. Data
derived from the research and models is included in our Renewable Energy Insight package. These
include: Wind turbine manufacturing capacity, Turbine models and contracts, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) data, PV manufacturing capacity, Solar thermal project database,
Brazilian ethanol plants and value drivers, Next generation bioenergy companies, Bioenergy pathways
conversion costs, Bioenergy pathways tariffs and transport costs, Biomass supply database, Geothermal
power plant types and manufacturers, and Geothermal field resource temperature.
Who Should Subscribe
This package is designed for those deeply involved in renewable energy and the carbon markets through
the supply chain, energy markets and regulatory arenas. This includes financial players such as investment
bankers, buy side analysts and asset managers; market players such as IPPs, petrochemical and
transmission companies; ministries, multilateral agencies and NGOs as well as engineering firms,
technology manufacturers and O & M providers.
The package is ideal for the government relations and strategic planning teams at a utility, carbon and
energy traders, private equity investors who are investing principally in a variety of renewable energy
technologies, policy-makers working on the roll-out of renewable energy legislation, project developers,
the natural resource or energy team at an IPP, the project finance desk at a bank, the managing partner of
an energy hedge fund, and renewable energy infrastructure funds.
Why Subscribe
From the analyst to the board-room, our service is the first port of call for anyone seeking to understand
these markets and is a must-have service for anyone looking to build a leadership position.
Utilities and generators will find key data they need in order to model their projects, run sensitivity
analyses, prepare for supply negotiations and fulfill RPS obligations. It will also aid with long-term resource
planning and help them in remaining one step ahead of regulatory changes.
For corporations, it is essential to understand how their technology will fit into a growing industry. Our
research and data are an essential resource in planning capacity additions, manufacturing expansions and
making pricing decisions. Executives and their teams will find the key data they need to understand the
economics of production and the upstream and downstream risk as well as model their projects and run
sensitivity analyses.
Providers of capital, whether venture, debt, equity or tax equity, will find that the Renewable Energy
Insight package provides high quality inputs for investors looking to create their own valuation metrics and
is the first port of call for investors looking to stay ahead of deal activity. It draws on the industry’s largest
repository of comparable values to provide comprehensive analysis of risks and returns at project and
company level. Financiers will also find the key data they need to understand regional product costs and
revenues, as well as activities of competitors. For traders, it is an essential resource for supply and demand
analysis and assisting with long term planning and pricing decisions.
Policy-makers are under increasing pressure to ensure that funds continue to flow to the renewable sector
in a capital-constrained world. Our Renewable Energy Insight package allows easy analysis of the impact of
incentive programs on the development of renewable energy capacity. It gives entrée to the complete
ecosystem of suppliers, utilities and project developers that make up the industry. Policy makers will also
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3. gain vital insight into how to make the sector viable for financial investors, many of whom are recovering
from their involvement in the sector over the past few years. Our models and metrics are being used by
policy-makers around the world to help design the most rewarding regulatory regimes.
Typical Questions Answered
- What are the true levelized costs for wind, solar and geothermal power and to what are they sensitive?
- Will marine energy ever address serious renewable energy concerns or contribute substantially to 2020
targets?
- What factors drive the price of PV modules, and which strategies for commanding a premium are likely
to be effective? What price should you pay for modules?
- What technologies will impact the true cost of geothermal?
- Which next generation technologies will change the biofuels landscape?
- Explain the economics of the next generation feedstocks, jatropha and algae?
- What are typical PPA terms in the UK and how are they changing over time?
- How many successful gasification projects do exist and where are they?
- What impact has the PTC/ITC on biomass projects?
- What is the current levelised cost of generation for mature solar technology?
- What is the cost of production for sugar based ethanol in Brazil?
- Is EGS fully mature or can we expect further technological improvements?
- What are the greatest obstacles facing small hydro and how are they being overcome?
Additional Services or Packages
As a stand-alone service, our Renewable Energy Insight Package is perfect for investors, executives or
policy-makers involved in multiple renewable energy sectors. If your interests extend to cover the
technologies that will be required in order to integrate large volumes of wind power into the electricity
distribution system, add our Energy Efficiency, Digitisation and Storage (EEDS) Insight package. Developers
of renewable energy projects in the developing world might also consider adding the Global Carbon Insight
Service in order to stay up-to-date on the value of any carbon credits they might generate. If you’re at a
utility and need stay focused on the renewable energy and carbon markets, you will want to look to our
Utility Package.
Sound Interesting?
Our goal is to be useful to you – to provide research, analysis and the underlying data that meet your needs
precisely. To learn more, we encourage you to contact our sales staff. They understand our products and
services from your perspective. See for yourself why New Energy Finance clients renew at an
extraordinarily high rate. For further information, please contact us at sales@newenergyfinance.com or at
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