Renewable Energy Investment Analysis using RETScreen
From 11.10.2011 to 11.10.2011
REEEP Endorsed
Organised by Clarke Energy Institute
Description:
Clarke Energy Institute invites you to a public Seminar on Renewable Energy Investment Analysis using RETScreen on 11 October 2011 at the Courtyard by Marriot, Barbados.
RETScreen is powerful clean energy project analysis Excel spreadsheet software developed by the Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Government of Canada. It is widely used having been downloaded free of cost from the RETScreen website by more than 215,000 users in 222 countries and territories, and is available in 35 languages. Go to www.retscreen.net and register to download the software to your laptop.
This seminar will give a hands-on introduction to the analytical methods employed by the recent software RETScreen Version 4 , as well as its resource and product databases, and UNFCCC carbon baselines. Analysis methods include energy systems, financial (NPV, ROR, IRR, DSCR, etc.), economic, risk and sensitivity, and greenhouse gas (GHG) analysis.
This seminar targets professionals involved in project finance and funding, investments, insurance, accounting, project due diligence, project appraisal, carbon trading and the clean development mechanism (CDM), venture capital, private equity, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, consulting, etc. The seminar will also provide an introduction to the principles of solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind energy technologies for residences and small commercial and industrial customers.
At the end of the seminar, participants will be able to review and build their own investment analysis models which would enable them to conduct professional due diligence analysis for their clients.
There will be a display of solar PV technology and other energy equipment.
The instructor is Dr. Roland Clarke who recently conducted in-house workshops for the World Bank in Washington DC, Hanoi in Vietnam, Manila in the Philippines and Jakarta in Indonesia. He also conducted an in-house workshop at the Energy Research Institute, Beijing – China on the behalf of the World Bank.
Click the website link below to register.