Green finance
The study of renewable energies is essential for the territories, it is an integral part of the development of a transition strategy and contributes to the coherence and robustness of the energy and climate trajectory of the territory. Thus, it makes it possible to have and cross data to make relevant choices adapted to the […]
To accurately estimate the energy produced from a power plant, information on the site’s meteorological resource is needed, in addition to the layout and technical specifications of the plant components. Sophisticated software is often used to model the complex interaction of these different parameters. Although a number of software packages can predict the energy performance […]
Large electric power grids are large and complex structures whose role is to carry electricity, often over long distances. These networks are subject to very strict operating rules, which oblige the operators of the control centers to operate the network within its safety limits. These limits depend on the thermal resistance of the structures, but […]
LCOE “Levelized Cost of Energy” or “actualized cost of energy” represents all the costs of the installation (initial investment: CAPEX and annual operating expenses: OPEX) compared to the energy produced by the installation on a given period of time (duration of the contract or lifetime for example). This cost is usually given in monetary unit […]
A virtual power plant or VPP (Virtual Power Plant) is a combination of small energy sources (or available energy storage systems), which are activated and optimized by a computer system within a SMART GRID network, in order to carry out operations in the service of an electricity distribution operator or purchase options from a producer […]
Project finance or Project finance consists in gathering, combining and structuring the various contributions of funds necessary for large-scale investments, private, public or mixed, while ensuring their financial viability. Project financing differs from other financing methods (in particular “corporate” financing) by the fact that the contributions of funds will mainly be remunerated by the cash […]
Stimulated by the development of digital technologies, participatory financing “Also called crowdfunding” has become an innovative and mobilizing lever for the financing of projects linked to the energy and ecological transition. Already practiced in history, for example to finance the Statue of Liberty, crowdfunding was born in its current forms (donation, loan, investment) in the […]
Before building a farm, the project developer must know the deposit of a territory in order to optimize the choice of land, the capacity of the plant and its profitability. Forecasting this production in the very long term (often 25 years) assumes that the deposit of the last 10 to 30 years is representative of […]
CAPEX and OPEX, What a peculiarity for the projects In recent years, the renewable energy sector has undergone profound changes in terms of technological innovations, project financing and the structuring of public support mechanisms. Many parameters are taken into account in the calculation of the production cost of energy sectors and sometimes differ according to […]
The notion of consumer actor has developed thanks to the dissemination of the concept of sustainable development. It covers, in particular, aspects of social responsibility of the consumer-citizen. In addition to these social transformations which favor the emergence of a consumer actor, there are transformations in the electricity system. Indeed, the development of distributed electricity […]