Renewable Energy
Capital for new renewable energy technology limited outside wind and solar. Muni purchase of renewable energy. Thermal Energy MA plans emissions 25% below 1990 levels by 2020 forcing closure of thermal power. Thermal power projects close at the end of their PPA. Energy Storage Battery costs are expected to fall 40% to $200/kWh and BOS fall 25% by 2025. Latest News Private markets overtaking public markets for finding growth. Leading potential PE investors. Most PE deals 1H18 were add-ons. Median time of angel & seed rounds 3 years. Medium seed rounds $2 MM. Pre-seed valuations $3.4 MM. Green bonds have raised $442 BN worldwide since 2013. MLP structure lost luster in renewableand energy markets. Expect 5 MM EV sold by 2019, 25% in the US, 1.6% US car sales. MA plans 400 EV charging stations in 5 years. Food waste $1.2 TN issue and challenge is “enormous”. Revenue Puts common in wind and thermal power applied to solar PV. Energy production insurance. Fuel cell incorporated into microgrids. Energy majors embrace future of microgrid. Primer on valuation: 1. Use peers with similar prospects for ROIC and growth 2. Use forward-looking multiples 3. Use enterprise-value multiples 4. Adjust the enterprise-value-to-EBITA multiple for non-operating items
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Renewable Energy
Clean energy represents addition not transition. Renewables need to increase 10x from 2018 levels to provide, together with nuclear, more than 25% of global energy. Thermal Energy 30% C&I plan to invest in CHP. Energy Storage Lithium Ion storage to grow 8x by 2022. Prices expected to fall 82% from $219/kWh in 2017 to $39/kWh in 2040. Lithium-ion batteries for the electric grid currently cost $280-$350/kWh expected to fall to about $100/kWh. NY 1,500 MW of storage by 2025. Storage deployment to support renewables. Storage added to existing solar, wind and hydro. Goal to replace cobalt from storagewith nickel and disordered rock salt. Latest News Non-bank financial firms large and near majority of real estate lending. CMBS finance of real property. C&I expect onsite generation 25% by 2025. Expect reduced legal fees as law firms compete for new business with PE and VC. R&D support for "two dozen" hydrogen projects. 7 MM EVs by 2025, from 567,000 in 2016 representing 7% of new car sales. New uses of power:
Renewable Energy
Solar + Storage expected to disrupt utility decentralized model. It can eliminate 70% cost of energy that is transmitted and distributed, or demand charges. Developers propose replacing thermal power with renewables + storage. Data center solar + storage behind the metercosts are coming down. Ability to share and load shift. Green Bank financingof community solar, C&I solar and solar aggregation. 140 US companies pledge of 100% renewables could lead to 100 GW of new build by 2030. US corporate PPAs driven by virtual PPA and aggregation. Thermal Energy US expect 71GW coal-fired power to close by 2030, lowest generation levels since 1965. Utilities propose to build over 60 GW of thermal power over the next 5 years. Latest News PE $500 BN loans in 2017 to midsizecompanies, up from $300 BN in 2012. Microgrids shift from ownership to service providermodel. Service provider data centers will add almost 7 GW of capacity in 2018. HVAC as a servicemodel. NYC to reduce GHG emissions 80% by 2050. 2% of buildings produce almost 50%of CO2 emissions. EU recycling target for plastic packaging 50% by 2025 and 55% by 2030. Plastics to fuels process 1 MM TPY plastics by 2020. AD to Power from manure. Gas used in transportation. Underground AD. Technology first deployed at landfills. Market update on project finance and M&A: (1) Contracted Debt: L+75-100bps. (2) Merchant Debt: L+275bps (3) Solar asset sales: 6.5% to 7.5% on an unleveraged 35-year after-tax basis (4) Wind asset sales: 8% to 9.5% on a 30-year unleveraged after-tax basis Thermal Energy
Expected continued growth of small-scale commercial CHPunits. Microgrids especially targeting hospitality, healthcare and multi-unit residential markets. Thermal energy market to IndoorAg expected to grow 5x over 5 years. Negative spreads drive investmentin small-scale distributed energy. Energy Storage Storage technology L-Metal doubles energy output. Limitations takes 3-hours to charge, expensive and only 50 cycles. L-Ion can take over 1,000 charges. Latest News $14 BN raised in 201 deals. Future in hydrogen to decarbonize heavy transport and store electricity. Indoor Ag nascent sector within agtech that is expected to trend higher. Increase in distributed generation to meet peaking demand. Creates opportunity for onsite generation. Renewable Energy
$11.5 TN invested globally in new power generationbetween 2018 and 2050. $8.4 TN invested in wind and solar. 2/3rds renewables by 2050. Energy Storage Energy storage expected to be 1,674 MW in 2018. Future might be ‘next-gen’ batteries such as solid-state, with energy densities above 300 Wh/kg, which could come to the market in the late 2020s. EV charging infrastructure expected to be $2.7 BN by 2020 and $18.6 BN by 2030. 12 MM residential and 1.2 MM public charging points in the US by 2030. $548 BN invested in energy storage by 2050, 2/3rd at the grid and 1/3 behind the meter. Microgrid global marketexpected to be $33 BN by 2023. CAGR 11.5%. Latest News Green Bonds 2017 $170 BN. Funding infrastructure, energy efficiency and clean energy. $30 BN of green municipal bonds have been sold in the US, exceeds $25 BN of green sovereign notes. Infra funds are seeking $291.3 BN in capital to deploy across infrastructure and energy. Track record is king. 2/3rds Honda vehicles will be electricby 2030. 300 MM EVs by 2030 representing 50% new car sales, 15% fleet. Replace 5% of total oil demand. Demand for gasoline peaks in the early 2030s and diesel plateaus shortly after. Global oil demand will peak in the mid-2030s at 110 MM BPD, declining just 500,000 BPD to 2040. Asia will have about 120 MM EVs by 2040, Europe 80 MM and the US 70 MM. Potential market sizefor cannabis beverages is “staggering". Bond league tables 1H18.
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