Management

Cleaner-Energy Investments

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Clean energy is the flavor of the times. With a view to bringing the phrase closer to reality, I would prefer to refer to it in relative terms as Cleaner Energy. Investors have had divergent views of the sector: from being a genuine business opportunity, especially when attractive preferential tariffs are on offer, to a peripheral activity that helped “green wash” other business operations. Project financing into Cleaner Energy (often interchangeably used with renewable energy, sustainable energy, or clean energy) has not been intensely researched owing to the specifics of each project, the resource, the geography, the policy environment, the risks involved, and above all, the very availability of relevant information in the public domain. This mandates the study of cases that straddle technologies, financial structures, market conditions, risk factors, and the like. The cases developed herein highlight the relationships among capital structure, managerial incentives, social structures and, most significantly, environmental factors, to help with Cleaner Energy project-related decision making, with relevant environmental legislation forming a significant factor in the process.
This compilation of case studies from across countries and cultures involves contemporary technologies including electric vehicles, solar thermal power plants, hybrids, coconut-charcoaling, etc., alongside more traditional and established technologies, viz., wind energy generation and hydro electric power plants. The collection highlights the real-world situations facing individual projects and brings out the strengths and weaknesses of the underlying business propositions. It also throws light on some of the factors that are routinely ignored during project for- mulation and risk assessment, viz., coordination among public and private agencies, confirmed availability of relatively minor but essential components, possibility of concurrent demand for inputs from different project proponents, etc. Above all, many of the cases studied relate to first-of-their-kind initiatives, successful or otherwise, which command our appreciation all the same for the conviction with which they were taken up for implementation

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Series Title

Cleaner-Energy Investments

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Publisher

New York : Springer New Delhi Heidelberg., 2015

Collation

1-206

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-81-322-2062-6

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NONE

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Edition

1st Edtion

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Business

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