Renewable Energy Financing SolutionsRegional Expert Meeting
Climate Change and Enhanced Renewable Energy Deployment in East and Southern Africa
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 17-18 March 2016
Alec Joubert
Investment Director, Energy Projects
Renewable Energy Performance Platform
Introduction to Camco Clean Energy
• Clean Energy Fund and Management Advisory
• Clean Energy and Climate Advisory
• Sub-Saharan Africa focus
• Offices
• South Africa (Johannesburg)
• East Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)
• Europe (London, UK)
• West Africa (Accra, Ghana)
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Project Finance Challenges
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The Project Development Life Cycle
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Balancing Risk and Reward
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Green Africa Power
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• Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) facility
• Offers quasi-equity debt and contingent lines of credit
• Total facility size: USD 200m
• www.greenafricapower.com
• Donors:
• UK Department for International Development (DFID)
• UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
• Government of Norway
• Advisors
• Eiser Infrastructure
• Camco Clean Energy
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GAP Key Issues/Barriers
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• Well-advanced projects which are struggling to reach
financial close
• Solutions:
• Mezzanine finance (subordinated debt, quasi-equity debt) and
• Contingent lines of credit
• Long tenors
• Funding not readily available from commercial markets
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Mandate
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• Least developed countries (DAC
1, 2, 3)
• Wide range of renewable energy
technologies
• Utility-scale, grid-connected
projects
• Later-stage project development
support
• Attract private sector finance
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Managed by:
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Initiated by:
Funded by:
www.repp-africa.org
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REPP Key Issues/Barriers
• Limited sources of of development finance
• Limited commercial viability of small-scale renewable energy
projects
• Levelised costs are not sustainable/equity returns are low
• Long-term debt
• Unavailable
• pricing high
• tenors too short
• Lack of access to risk mitigation instruments
• Lack of technical know-how amongst small-scale developers
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REPP Mandate
• Small-scale renewables
• Least developed countries
• Nineteen target countries
• Wide range of renewable energy
technologies
• Developer-focused
• Unlocking private sector finance
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Products, Services and Solutions
1. Technical Assistance during Development
Technical studies
Legal and due diligence costs
2. Structuring Support
Financial structuring
Facilitating access to risk mitigation instruments
Facilitating access to long-term debt
3. Results-Based Finance
Results-based financial support to achieve commercial viability
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Disclaimer
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