Industry Insights

Project Finance: Sectors

In this series of Industry Insights we have invited sector experts from within the Project Finance arena to discuss some of the particular issues and challenges in their chosen field.

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Issues In The Energy Sector

Tim Stone, Global Senior Advisor, KPMG Corporate Finance

Tim Stone is one of the leading figures in global infrastructure and project finance. In this video he gives an overview of issues in the energy market – focusing primarily on the UK.

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Local Asset Backed Vehicles

Neil Rutledge, Partner, Grant Thornton

In this interview you’ll learn what a Local Asset Backed Vehicle (“LABV”) is, how the procurement process works, the benefits of this procurement method and the associated risk sharing mechanisms.

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European Renewables Market Overview

Robert-Jan Bakker, Senior Consultant, Corporate Finance, Deloitte

In this interview Robert-Jan Bakker of Deloitte gives an overview of what’s happening in the European renewables sector from a commercial and funding perspective touching on issues ranging from country and tariff risk to new producers and the relative risks of PV and wind options.

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Metals And Mining Market Overview

Andor Lips, Vice President, Structured Finance, ING

Andor Lips of ING gives us an overview of the metals and mining sector, explaining the factors which influence investment decisions in these capital intensive projects.

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Evolution Of PPP In Benelux

Rutger te Grotenhuis and Steven Steppe, Directors, RebelGroup

Rutger te Grotenhuis and Steven Steppe of RebelGroup explain how the PPP market in Belgium and the Netherlands has evolved, the key government drivers and the state of the current PPP project pipeline.

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Solar Energy Insights

David Sugrue, Senior Project Developer, Borrego Solar Systems

David Sugrue of Borrego Solar Systems describes the risks associated with the solar energy market and talks about how solar projects are funded, with particular focus on the US regulatory regime. David also explains why solar is an ideal source of energy for buildings as diverse as schools and Apple’s datafarms.

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Funding Challlenges Of The Offshore Wind Industry

Stephen Crane, Senior Adviser, UK Green Investment Bank

Stephen Crane has 25 years’ experience in structured and project finance gained at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, RBS and Deutsche Bank in the infrastructure, energy, natural resources, transportation, power and renewables sectors. Now Senior Adviser to the UK Green Investment Bank, Stephen shares his views on the funding challenges facing the offshore wind industry.

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The Role Of The Academic Health Science Networks

Jonathan Pearson, Director, Finnamore

Jonathan Pearson is a Director at Finnamore, the UK’s largest independent health and well-being consultancy. Here, Jonathan explains the dual role of the new AHSNs in both reducing the running costs of the NHS and actually generating wealth for the UK by channelling the extensive resources of the NHS into commercial enterprises.

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Financial Modelling Challenges In The National Health Service

Robert Thorp, Principal Consultant, Finnamore

Here, Robert Thorp talks about the pressures on the National Health Service and the discrepancy between the growth of demand and the size of its budgets. He explains how a FAST approach allows Finnamore to build models that can deal with the complexity of the NHS’s increasingly diverse range of services and the costs associated with them.

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