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Biofuels are red-hot, and getting hotter by the day! But developers and financiers must understand how to best take advantage of the national Renewable Fuels Standard and other incentives, as well as how to mitigate feedstock and technical risks, in order to structure projects to optimize revenue streams while minimizing risk exposure.

Infocast’s Ethanol & Biodiesel Project Finance: The Tutorial has one simple goal: to provide the most comprehensive training on how to finance biofuels projects.

Ethanol & Biodiesel Project Finance: The Tutorial will follow the format of Infocast’s long-running, and highly-respected, Project Finance: The Tutorial. The Tutorial provides the best available introduction of how to project finance ethanol and biodiesel projects for developers, investors, lenders, and others who want to come rapidly up to speed on this critical financial technique and its specific application to biofuels deals. The event features a day-and-a-half of in-depth coverage on how to structure biofuels deals to best gain access to financing, followed by two case studies to explore how to surmount the hurdles that arise in real world ethanol and biodiesel projects.

You will:

• Learn how equity investors and lenders evaluate this siting, cost and competitive factors of ethanol and biodiesel projects and what metrics your projects must meet in order to obtain financing


• Learn what risk factors in ethanol and biodiesel projects will raise “red flags” for equity investors and lenders and how to mitigate such risks via contractual arrangements


• Learn where equity and debt can be sourced for ethanol and biodiesel projects and how to minimize the time you spend on the financing process


• Anticipate and overcome hurdles in developing ethanol and biodiesel projects – hear lessons learned in real-world plant developments and financings