Clean Energy Risk Analysis Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Renewable Energy Project Managers, Infrastructure and Energy Investment Analysts and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-ETR-032

Before you join: Participants should have working familiarity with energy markets, infrastructure projects, corporate finance, sustainability, risk management or commercial contracting.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

Suggest a date or city

Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Clean energy investments can produce stable long-term revenues, but project outcomes depend on far more than technology selection. Developers, lenders, utilities and corporate buyers must judge resource quality, grid access, permitting, policy durability, offtaker credit, construction performance, market prices and community acceptance before committing capital. A project with attractive headline returns can become unfinanceable when curtailment, basis risk, delayed consents, weak contracts or underestimated operating constraints are ignored.

This course equips participants to identify, quantify and communicate risks and opportunities across solar, wind, battery storage, green hydrogen and related infrastructure projects. Participants assess market and regulatory conditions, interpret energy-yield cases, test project finance assumptions, analyse contract risk allocation and evaluate environmental, social and governance exposures. The course also covers merchant-price risk, power purchase agreements, climate hazards, supply-chain issues, lender due diligence and decision-making under uncertainty.

Teaching combines instructor briefings with sector cases, financial and risk-model reviews, facilitated group analysis, simulations and application planning. Participants work through realistic investment and development decisions involving renewable auctions, corporate PPAs, grid congestion, battery degradation and construction delays. They leave with a clean energy project risk assessment pack containing a risk register, risk allocation matrix, scenario assumptions, financial sensitivity framework and mitigation action plan. A certificate of completion is issued to participants who complete the course.

The course is suited to professionals who already work with energy projects, investment decisions, sustainability programmes, infrastructure assets or energy procurement and need a disciplined method for assessing clean energy opportunities.

What you will be able to do

  • Assess clean energy project opportunities using technology, market, policy and delivery criteria
  • Construct a project risk register using ISO 31000 risk assessment principles
  • Evaluate energy-yield cases using P50, P75 and P90 production estimates
  • Test project finance returns through discounted cash flow, sensitivities and Monte Carlo simulation
  • Analyse PPA, EPC and O&M contracts using risk allocation matrices
  • Quantify merchant-price, basis, curtailment and counterparty risks for renewable assets
  • Prepare climate scenario and IFRS S2-aligned risk information for investment decisions
  • Develop a risk mitigation action plan with owners, deadlines and escalation triggers

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Make better-informed recommendations on renewable investment and procurement decisions
  • Challenge energy-yield, price and cost assumptions presented in project business cases
  • Communicate project downside risks clearly to investment committees and senior management
  • Apply lender-style due diligence questions to PPA, EPC and operating contracts
  • Build a credible pathway into clean energy investment, development or risk roles

For your organisation

  • Improve screening of renewable projects before development and capital commitments
  • Reduce exposure to avoidable grid, permitting, contract and counterparty failures
  • Produce more defensible investment papers and risk reports for approval committees
  • Strengthen PPA and contractor negotiations through clearer risk allocation
  • Align climate, ESG and financial risk assessment for energy transition portfolios

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can screen clean energy opportunities against strategic, technical, commercial and delivery criteria.

  • Project value chain mapping from development rights through decommissioning obligations
  • Technology maturity assessment using TRL and commercial operating evidence
  • Solar, wind, storage and hydrogen revenue models compared
  • Resource, land, grid and offtake constraints screened early
  • Stakeholder mapping identifies developers, lenders, utilities, communities and regulators
  • Opportunity register ranks projects by strategic fit and investability

Participants can analyse policy, regulatory and permitting risks affecting clean energy project viability.

  • Policy risk taxonomy separates market design, permitting, tax and trade
  • Regulatory horizon scanning records proposed rules, consultations and implementation dates
  • Renewable auction design tested for indexation, penalties and curtailment allocation
  • Permitting critical-path analysis identifies consent dependencies and appeal exposure
  • Contract-for-difference mechanics assessed against merchant-price and basis-risk exposure
  • Scenario narratives connect policy shifts to project cash-flow drivers

Participants can evaluate revenue uncertainty and offtake structures for renewable energy assets.

  • Market price formation links dispatch order, fuel costs and congestion
  • Capture-price analysis measures cannibalisation for correlated renewable generation profiles
  • Basis-risk decomposition separates hub prices, nodal prices and congestion losses
  • PPA credit assessment tests buyer default, termination and collateral provisions
  • Merchant-tail forecasts combine forward curves, volatility assumptions and dispatch modelling
  • Balancing-market revenues evaluated against availability, degradation and dispatch constraints

Participants can interpret technical evidence and identify performance risks across renewable assets.

  • Energy-yield assessment distinguishes P50, P75 and P90 production estimates
  • Independent-engineer reports interrogated for assumptions, exclusions and data quality
  • Availability modelling separates forced outages, planned maintenance and grid downtime
  • Battery degradation curves translate cycling assumptions into usable-capacity forecasts
  • Climate hazard screening tests heat, flood, wind and wildfire exposure
  • Interface-risk registers assign ownership across EPC, OEM, grid and operator

Participants can test clean energy project economics under realistic downside conditions.

  • Integrated project finance model links production, revenues, costs and debt
  • Discounted cash-flow valuation calculates NPV, IRR and equity returns
  • Debt service coverage ratios tested under lender downside cases
  • Sources-and-uses schedules reconcile development, construction, financing and contingency costs
  • Sensitivity tables isolate price, yield, capex, delay and curtailment drivers
  • Monte Carlo simulation produces probability distributions for project value

Participants can assess contractual risk allocation and its effect on project bankability.

  • Risk allocation matrices map obligations across PPA, EPC, O&M and financing
  • Bankability review identifies clauses affecting lender appetite and pricing
  • Liquidated damages assessed for delay, performance shortfall and availability failures
  • Change-in-law provisions tested against tariff, tax and permit impacts
  • Force-majeure definitions compared with insurability and business-interruption exposure
  • Step-in rights and direct agreements examined for default scenarios

Participants can identify material ESG and stakeholder risks within clean energy project decisions.

  • Materiality assessment identifies environmental, social and governance project exposures
  • ESIA findings converted into mitigation commitments, costs and monitoring indicators
  • Community grievance mechanisms assessed for accessibility, response and closure evidence
  • Supply-chain due diligence addresses forced labour, minerals and supplier traceability
  • Biodiversity mitigation hierarchy applies avoidance, minimisation, restoration and offsets
  • Just-transition analysis considers employment, affordability and local-benefit distribution

Participants can design a structured risk assessment process with clear controls and escalation.

  • ISO 31000 process structures context, assessment, treatment, monitoring and communication
  • Risk appetite statements distinguish intolerable, managed and accepted exposures
  • Bow-tie analysis connects threats, preventive controls, consequences and recovery controls
  • Risk registers document causes, events, impacts, owners and control effectiveness
  • Heat maps calibrated using likelihood definitions and financial-impact thresholds
  • Key risk indicators establish escalation triggers and reporting frequencies

Participants can translate climate and market scenarios into decision-useful risk reporting.

  • Climate scenarios translate physical and transition variables into financial assumptions
  • IFRS S2 disclosures connect governance, strategy, risk processes and metrics
  • Stress tests quantify downside effects on covenants, liquidity and returns
  • Reverse stress testing identifies conditions that make projects unfinanceable
  • Management dashboards distinguish leading indicators from lagging loss measures
  • Investment-committee papers present assumptions, uncertainty, mitigations and decision requests

Participants can convert risk analysis into prioritised decisions, assurance requirements and actions.

  • Due-diligence workplans sequence technical, commercial, legal, ESG and financial reviews
  • Risk-adjusted investment cases compare mitigation costs with residual exposure
  • Gate reviews define evidence requirements before development, construction and operations
  • Mitigation action plans assign owners, deadlines, budgets and assurance evidence
  • Portfolio correlations assessed across geography, technology, counterparties and market drivers
  • Personal application plans specify priority decisions, stakeholders and ninety-day actions

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Clean energy opportunity screening template
  2. ISO 31000-aligned project risk register
  3. PPA, EPC and O&M risk allocation matrix
  4. Renewable project financial sensitivity model
  5. Climate scenario and stress-testing worksheet
  6. Risk mitigation and escalation action plan

Who should attend

  • Renewable Energy Project Managers — assess development, delivery and operating risks before key approvals
  • Infrastructure and Energy Investment Analysts — test project returns, downside cases and bankability
  • Corporate Energy Procurement Managers — evaluate PPA terms, supplier exposure and long-term price risk
  • Commercial and Strategy Managers — compare clean energy opportunities against market and policy conditions
  • Risk and Compliance Managers — build risk governance, reporting and controls for energy investments
  • Sustainability and Climate Finance Professionals — connect climate, ESG and financial risk evidence

Skills and tools covered

Renewable project appraisalEnergy market riskProject finance modellingContract risk allocationClimate scenario analysisRisk mitigation planning

Tools and standards

ISO 31000, IFRS S2, Monte Carlo simulation, P50/P90 energy-yield analysis

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to establish methods, followed by sector cases drawn from renewable development, corporate procurement, infrastructure finance and utility operations. Participants review project evidence, interpret simplified financial and energy-yield models, and work in groups to assess risks, controls and mitigation choices. Simulations examine investment-committee decisions, contract negotiations and downside scenarios. Facilitated discussion connects each method to participants' current projects, portfolios or procurement plans, ending with individual application planning.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have working familiarity with energy markets, infrastructure projects, corporate finance, sustainability, risk management or commercial contracting. Experience reading business cases, financial statements, project budgets or energy procurement documents is helpful. The course assumes confidence with percentages, discounted cash flow concepts and spreadsheet-based analysis, although participants do not need to build advanced financial models from scratch. Prior engineering qualifications, specialist electricity-market knowledge, coding skills and previous experience with renewable project development are not required. Core concepts are introduced before they are applied to investment cases.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

You should understand basic business, project, finance, energy or sustainability concepts and be comfortable interpreting numerical information. You do not need an engineering degree, advanced spreadsheet modelling skills or prior renewable project experience.

Bring a laptop if possible, particularly if you want to adapt templates to your own projects or portfolio. Course materials are provided, and a basic calculator is useful for reviewing financial examples.

It is designed for professionals involved in renewable project development, infrastructure investment, energy procurement, risk, finance, strategy and sustainability. It is particularly relevant for people who review business cases or advise decision-makers on energy transition investments.

Technology courses focus on asset design and operation, while project finance courses focus mainly on funding structures and financial models. This course connects technical, commercial, regulatory, contractual, ESG and financial risks into one decision framework.

You can use the opportunity screen, risk register, contract matrix and sensitivity framework to review a live project, procurement proposal or investment paper. The methods also support better questions during due diligence, supplier negotiations and approval meetings.

Each training day runs from 08:30 to 16:30 and provides about 6.5 contact hours, excluding breaks. Time is divided between structured briefings, sector cases, group analysis, simulations and application planning across ten modules.

Questions about this course?

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