Wind Power is growing 30% annually across North America. Do you have the insider’s know-how needed to bring a wind farm successfully to market?

Get up-to-date on the latest business models, innovative financing vehicles, and the role of RECs and RPS:

• Learn the fundamentals that will help you validate and strengthen your wind farm plans
• Get a detailed analysis of cash flows in wind project » pro formas
• Anticipate bottlenecks and gotchas before they happen: environmental permitting hurdles, turbine cost, backlogs, financing and contracts, gridaccess, and securing bankable PPAs
• Is your project structured to get you the best equity and debt terms?
• Learn how to position your project for success—maximizing long- term success, valuation, or proceeds in a buyout
• Explore a Case Study on Wind Farm Development

About the Tutorial

Wind power continues on its exponential growth curve unabated, but new opportunities and challenges are emerging. The field is ever more crowded, with highly capitalized and highly experienced players, while the range of potential business models is expanding. Is your firm sufficiently nimble and skilled enough to carve a niche in this market? Is your pro forma solid enough to obtain financing from lenders in today’s tight credit environment? Is your place in the backlogged interconnection queue secure? And are you confident your project is structured for optimal valuation and has an effective exit strategy?

Infocast’s popular Wind Power Development Tutorial now comes for the first time to the Midwest, the hottest development area in the country. It will offer utilities, munis, co-op, land owners and independent developers the essential tools and strategic insights for success. The Tutorial will help existing developers bulletproof their plans and projects, while investors, partners and financiers will gain insight into the inner dynamics of wind business models so they can sharpen their due diligence, underwriting and valuation analysis.

• Understand business models, RECS, RPS and hedging strategies
• Develop strategies to deal with the possibility that the Production Tax credit may not be renewed
• Learn the fundamentals that will help you validate and strengthen your wind farm development and financing plans
• Understand the tactics and nuances of negotiating turbine financing and contracts
• Learn how pro formas work for a typical 100mw project
• Position projects for long-term success as an owner and get the maximum valuation of your project in a merger or buyout

Participating Companies