Financing renewable and alternative energy projects: A commercial bank's perspective

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:7242325

Ferris, D

Commercial banks have failed to take an active role lending to small power projects. This paper discusses the problems facing a banker as he attempts to evaluate a renewable/alternative energy project. Banks that have successfully begun to play an active role have done so by creating new credit policy and staffing a unit with lending officers that have specialized industry knowledge and project finance backgrounds. A discussion of contractual issues related to projects such as wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, biomass and cogeneration is followed by a summation of what a lender requires to properly assess such project financing proposals.

• OSTI ID: 7242325
• Report Number(s): CONF-8503249-
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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