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What Kinds of Photovoltaic Projects Do Lenders Prefer to Finance?

In: Cross-Sector Leadership for the Green Economy

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  • Florian Lüdeke-Freund

    (Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM), Leuphana University of Lüneburg)

  • Moritz Loock

    (Institute for Economy and the Environment at the University of St. Gallen)

Abstract

Discussions of innovation in renewable energy have covered different types of energy production (e.g., Nguyen, Gheewala, & Sagisaka, 2010; Sookkumnerd, Ito, & Kito, 2007; Yusoff, 2006), different industries (e.g., Narodoslawsky, Niederl-Schmidinger, & Halasz, 2008; Smyth, ó Gallachóir, Korres, & Murphy, 2010), or have focused on different geographic regions (e.g., Kaldellis, Simotas, Zafirakis, & Kondili, 2009; Smyth et al., 2010; Sookkumnerd et al., 2007; Zuluaga & Dyner, 2007). However, a crucial aspect has been rarely discussed: financing. Project financing is a central challenge for the diffusion of renewable energies, as it claims a major percentage of overall renewable energy investments (United Nations Environment Programme [UNEP], 2010) and requires huge amounts of debt capital: Debt ratios of 80 percent or even 90 percent are common (Johnson, 2009; Böttcher, 2009; Wuppertal Institute [WI], 2010).

Suggested Citation

  • Florian Lüdeke-Freund & Moritz Loock, 2011. "What Kinds of Photovoltaic Projects Do Lenders Prefer to Finance?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Alfred Marcus & Paul Shrivastava & Sanjay Sharma & Stefano Pogutz (ed.), Cross-Sector Leadership for the Green Economy, chapter 0, pages 107-124, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-01589-1_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137015891_6
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