SCS Renewables | Mercatus™, the premier solar asset diligence and acquisition platform http://www.scsrenewables.com Project finance. Simplified. Fri, 31 May 2013 14:43:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 New Sunshine Backed Bond Conference – Solving for Securitization http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/05/09/new-sunshine-bond-conference-solving-for-securitization/ http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/05/09/new-sunshine-bond-conference-solving-for-securitization/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 15:04:37 +0000 Haresh Patel http://www.scsrenewables.com/?p=1341 On Friday, I attended the first inaugural New Sunshine Bond Conference.  Over 200 attendees participated representing some of the top investors, developers and service providers. (Pretty impressive considering the declining attendance at other conferences in an over supply of clean tech conferences.) Solar City’s recent IPO, ABB’s 57% premium on its PowerOne acquisition, and solar [...]

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]]> http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/05/09/new-sunshine-bond-conference-solving-for-securitization/feed/ 0 Combining Optionality with Operations to Increase Valuation http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/05/03/combining-optionality-with-operations-to-increase-valuation/ http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/05/03/combining-optionality-with-operations-to-increase-valuation/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 21:20:10 +0000 SCS Renewables http://www.scsrenewables.com/?p=1333 Last week I joined 800 participants for the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in New York where the theme was: THE NEW ENERGY ROI: RESILIENCE // OPTIONALITY // INTELLIGENCE. The BNEF blog provides an excellent summary of the theme: Link. Though the conference was set-up along three themes (Resilience, Intelligence and Optionality), it was the discussion [...]

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]]> http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/05/03/combining-optionality-with-operations-to-increase-valuation/feed/ 0 The Big Prize For Solar Project Finance http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/04/11/the-big-prize-for-solar-project-finance/ http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/04/11/the-big-prize-for-solar-project-finance/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:56:16 +0000 Haresh Patel http://www.scsrenewables.com/?p=1312 A few weeks ago, the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) released a fairly pivotal white paper highlighting the key pain points preventing investors from deploying capital into renewable energy projects.  Reading through my notes again, it occurs to me that just as everyone in the industry shares the sentiment that our industry needs standardization of renewable [...]

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]]> http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/04/11/the-big-prize-for-solar-project-finance/feed/ 0 A Silver Buckshot Approach – No Silver Bullet; Solar Finance and Investment Summit Blog II http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/04/05/a-silver-buckshot-approach-no-silver-bullet-solar-finance-and-investment-summit-blog-ii/ http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/04/05/a-silver-buckshot-approach-no-silver-bullet-solar-finance-and-investment-summit-blog-ii/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:48:42 +0000 Sam Brown http://www.scsrenewables.com/?p=1302 Last month I spent four sunshine filled days at the annual Solar Finance and Investor Summit in San Diego. While the weather was sunny, the mood was simply matter of fact. No one is expecting any silver bullets from State or Federal governments to spur growth. There is no expectation for additional solar incentives or [...]

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]]> http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/04/05/a-silver-buckshot-approach-no-silver-bullet-solar-finance-and-investment-summit-blog-ii/feed/ 0 Uncertainty and Hope at the Infocast Solar Finance and Investor Summit in San Diego http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/03/28/uncertainty-and-hope-at-the-infocast-solar-finance-and-investor-summit-in-san-diego/ http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/03/28/uncertainty-and-hope-at-the-infocast-solar-finance-and-investor-summit-in-san-diego/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:35:16 +0000 SCS Renewables http://www.scsrenewables.com/?p=1281 We attended the Solar Finance Summit last week in San Diego; again this year the conference was well attended  and brought together over 650 investors, developers, energy executives, service providers and decision makers from across the solar industry. One session on the first day titled “What’s New?” set the tone for me; remarks by K. [...]

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]]> http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/03/21/scs-renewables-joins-nrel-industry-working-group-to-advance-solar-securitization/feed/ 0 SCS Makes Top 13 Solar Startups to Watch in 2013 http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/01/11/scs-makes-top-13-solar-startups-to-watch-in-2013/ http://www.scsrenewables.com/2013/01/11/scs-makes-top-13-solar-startups-to-watch-in-2013/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:03:51 +0000 SCS Renewables http://www.scsrenewables.com/?p=1246 SCS Renewables, Inc. has been listed as one of the top 13 solar startups to watch in 2013 by Gigaom. Here is the summary of the listing, we are looking forward to an exciting and very successful 2013! – by Gigaom’s Ucilia Wang We knew 2012 would be a tough year for many solar companies [...]

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]]> http://www.scsrenewables.com/2012/11/27/scs-renewables-makes-goinggreens-ones-to-watch-200-top-private-companies/feed/ 0 CEOs Perspective : What is FISM? http://www.scsrenewables.com/2012/10/15/ceos-perspective-what-is-fism/ http://www.scsrenewables.com/2012/10/15/ceos-perspective-what-is-fism/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:43:46 +0000 Haresh Patel http://www.scsrenewables.com/?p=1205 Is it a chemical reaction? Is it a geological formation?  FISM is actually an acronym for the four pillar principles we have built into SCS Renewables to drive our business, strategy and culture. FISM is stands for Focus, Innovate, Simplify, and Monetize. My next four blogs will cover each of those pillars. Today I want to [...]

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]]> http://www.scsrenewables.com/2012/10/15/ceos-perspective-what-is-fism/feed/ 0 Two Autumn Days in San Francisco – REFF West Observations http://www.scsrenewables.com/2012/10/15/two-autumn-days-in-san-francisco-reff-west-observations/ http://www.scsrenewables.com/2012/10/15/two-autumn-days-in-san-francisco-reff-west-observations/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:29:01 +0000 TJ http://www.scsrenewables.com/?p=1201 REFF West observations after the SCS Renewables team met with renewable industry investors, energy companies, services providers, policy wonks, regulators, analysts and the press at this year’s well attended Renewable Energy Finance Forum (REFF*) West conference in San Francisco Sept 27-28 at the Four Seasons. Although the conference focused on renewable energy financing market trends [...]

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