Green light for renewable energy investments : a risk analysis tool for renewable energy project development

Although the renewable energy sector is maturing fast, still these technologies are experiencing some hurdles to come to financial closure of actual projects. A prominent problem is that the technologies are generally associated with unfamiliar, high and unclear risks. Furthermore project developers are often rather inexperienced and within the financial sector there is lack of understanding concerning renewable energy. Therefore the objective of the research was to develop a tool, that provides insights in the risks present in renewable energy projects, assists to communicate these risks and helps finding ways to effectively manage the project risks