Energy Storage M&A and Project Due Diligence

February 27-28, 2024 | Online :: Central Time

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This Energy Storage M&A And Project Development Due Diligence event will lay out the general framework by which energy storage assets and portfolios are financially evaluated and transacted.  Energy storage investors, sponsors, project developers, utilities/load-serving entities, integrators and EPCs will derive actionable insights from subject matter experts on the following energy storage M&A dimensions:

• Transaction framework
• Context and landscape
• Commercial benchmarks
• Asset performance metrics
• The impact of externalities such as the supply chain
• Assigning value to contract terms for BESS assets, portfolios and M&A transactions

Learning Outcomes

• Review the fundamental financial components of energy storage M&A 
• Examine the underlying risk factors that impact the value of energy storage M&A
• Evaluate fleshed-out energy storage M&A terms
• Assess the relationship between energy storage, performance, price and value
• Discuss energy storage M&A contractual elements
• Evaluate energy storage M&A and project development commercial benchmarks
• Examine the impact of externalities on energy storage M&A and project development

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 : Central Time

 

10:00 – 10:15 a.m. :: Overview & Introductions

10:15 – 11:45 a.m. :: Energy Storage M&A Market and Project Development Context

• M&A transaction types and counterparties
• M&A transactions (deals) landscape view
• Market(s) characteristics and variations
  • Products and services
  • ISOs/RTOs by service territory
  • Non-organized markets and unaffiliated balancing areas
  • Corporate contracts and PPAs
• Distinction by technologies
  • Lithium Ion
  • Non-Lithium Ion
• M&A transaction project stages
  • Ready-to-build (RTB)
  • Commercial operation date
  • Executable interconnection agreements
  • Project pipeline

11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. :: Break

12:00 – 1:00 p.m. :: Energy Storage M&A Transaction and Project Development Framework

• Classes of prospective storage transaction entities and objectives
  • Investors
  • Sponsors
  • Project developers
  • Utilities/load-serving entities
  • Integrators
  • EPCs
• Bases for Evaluation
  • Development stage
  • Site
  • Interconnection
  • Environmental and permitting
  • Technology/safety
  • Schedule
  • Revenue
  • Market risk
  • Operation
  • Major agreements: supply, EPC LTSA, offtake
  • Capex/opex
  • Extreme weather risks
• Asset Performance Metrics
  • Capacity
    • Degradation expectations?
    • Overbuild
    • Augmentation or replacement?
    • Useful life?
  • Availability
  • Round-trip efficiency
  • Minimum/maximum charging and discharging cycles, ramp rates and response times
  • Performance testing

1:00 – 2:00 p.m. :: Break

2:00 – 3:00 p.m. :: Energy Storage M&A and Project Development Commercial Benchmarks

• Off-take/tolling agreements in place
• Typical commercial structures that govern BESS usage and monetization
• How to value storage project and market earnings
• Trajectory of asset value as more storage comes online
• Relationship of storage assets to solar (and other) hybrid/co-located assets
• Risk profile and exposure
• Return (IRR) opportunities
• Operating aspects that add asset value
  • Size of asset or portfolio transaction
  • Duration
  • Ancillary services
  • DA vs. RT markets
• Augmentation opportunities and constraints

3:00 – 3:15 p.m. :: Break

3:15 – 4:00 p.m. :: The Impact of Externalities on Energy Storage M&A and Project Development

• Supply chain
• Interconnection queue and process
• Market congestion
• Tariffs
• Customs
• Interest rates
• IRA impacts
  • Solar-requirement restriction removed
  • Domestic content adder
  • Transferability and direct-pay optionalities

4:00 p.m. :: Course Adjourns for Day

 

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 : Central Time

 

9:00 – 10:30 a.m. :: Key Contract Terms in BESS M&A Transactions and Project Development

• Contract basics
• Purchase and sale agreement structures and key terms
• Project development contracts key terms
  • Conditions precedent
  • Development milestones, delays, and damages
  • Force majeure
  • Performance testing and guarantees
  • Change of law
  • Performance security
  • Assignability
• Distinctions between standalone and hybrid contracts

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. :: Morning Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. :: Assigning Value to Contract Terms for BESS that Affect M&A Transactions and Project Development

• Performance testing
• Purpose and control
• Performance-based adjustments
• Revenue meters
• RECs
• Curtailments
• Conditions precedent to effectiveness
• Development milestones
• Definitions
• Performance delay and shortfall damages
• Permissible delays
• Force majeure
• Buyer and seller security provisions
• Events of default
• Change of law
• Assignability and off-taker options

12:15 p.m. :: Course Adjournment

Nicolas Muszynski is Vice President of Energy Storage Development at RES, where he has worked since 2008.  Before moving to this current position in late 2021, for the previous several years he served as Director of Energy Storage as well as Senior Development Manager for Renewables and Transmission and Development Manager of Wind Energy.  Prior to joining RES Americas, he was Development Manager at Wind Energy at Airtricity (acquired by E.ON Climate and Renewables) and Project Analyst at AWS Truewind. He started his career at Helimax Energie (acquired by DNV-GL  Renewables) as a Wind Energy Project Engineer. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) degree in Engineering Physics at Universite de Montreal  Ecole polytechnique de Montreal.

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Rochelle Rabeler is a partner at the law firm Holland & Hart.  She counsels developers, investors, sponsors, and independent power producers in connection with wind, solar, storage, and other energy projects throughout the U.S., varying in size from 100 kW to 1000+ MW. Ms. Rabeler works with both buyers and sellers, guiding them through each nuance of project development contracts, mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity financings, including ISDA and other hedge and swap agreements. She specializes in power purchase agreements (PPAs) and has extensive experience representing parties in the negotiation of traditional physical offtake PPAs and also financial and virtual PPAs or contracts for differences. To date, Ms. Rabeler has supported clients successfully negotiate and execute corporate PPAs for wind and solar projects totaling more than 2 GW in the aggregate. 

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Nellie Tong is a Principal Consultant and Team Lead for Energy Storage M&A at DNV.  She has more than two decades of experience in the energy and utility industry. Ms. Tong has led several multi-year projects that require cross-disciplinary analytics and extensive stakeholder engagement. Her project experience includes distributed resource planning (DRP), DER potential studies and emerging technology R&D. She serves as the lead consultant in numerous storage and renewables projects that range from market assessment, strategy development and technical due diligence.  Since 2021, Ms. Tong has managed technical due diligence for some 10 GWh of storage M&A transactions – valued at more than $2 billion – in DNV’s role as the buy-side independent engineer.  She is a graduate of Swarthmore College.

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Uday Guntupalli is Product Manager at DNV, where his focus is building the platform for merchant energy storage modeling.  Before joining the firm, he served in roles as Senior Project Engineer at RWE Renewables and Senior Consultant at Nexant.  Previously, he spent about 6 1/2 years at First Solar as an Analytics Engineer II and PVS Technical Application Developer.  He earned a BS degree in Electrical Engineering at RVR & JC College of Engineering and a MS degree in Electrical Engineering at Missouri University of Science & Technology.

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Energy Storage M&A and Project Due Diligence

February 27-28, 2024 | Online

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Credits

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EUCI is authorized by IACET to offer 0.9 CEUs for this event

Requirements For Successful Completion Of Program  

Participants must log in each day and be in attendance for the entirety of the course to be eligible for continuing education credit.  

Instructional Methods 

PowerPoint presentations and classroom discussion will be used in this course for each learning outcome.  

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Upon successful completion of this event, program participants interested in receiving CPE credits will receive a certificate of completion.

Course CPE Credits: 11.0
There is no prerequisite for this Course.
Program field of study: Specialized Knowledge
Program Level: Basic
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based
Advanced Preparation: None

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