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Renewable Energy Financing Solutions Regional Expert Meeting Climate Change and Enhanced Renewable Energy Deployment in East and Southern Africa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 17-18 March 2016 Alec Joubert Investment Director, Energy Projects

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Renewable Energy Financing SolutionsRegional Expert Meeting

Climate Change and Enhanced Renewable Energy Deployment in East and Southern Africa

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 17-18 March 2016

Alec Joubert

Investment Director, Energy Projects

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Introduction to Camco Clean Energy

• Clean Energy Fund and Management Advisory

• Clean Energy and Climate Advisory

• Sub-Saharan Africa focus

• Offices

• South Africa (Johannesburg)

• East Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)

• Europe (London, UK)

• West Africa (Accra, Ghana)

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Project Finance Challenges

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The Project Development Life Cycle

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Balancing Risk and Reward

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Green Africa Power

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• Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) facility

• Offers quasi-equity debt and contingent lines of credit

• Total facility size: USD 200m

• www.greenafricapower.com

• Donors:

• UK Department for International Development (DFID)

• UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

• Government of Norway

• Advisors

• Eiser Infrastructure

• Camco Clean Energy

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GAP Key Issues/Barriers

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• Well-advanced projects which are struggling to reach

financial close

• Solutions:

• Mezzanine finance (subordinated debt, quasi-equity debt) and

• Contingent lines of credit

• Long tenors

• Funding not readily available from commercial markets

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Mandate

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• Least developed countries (DAC

1, 2, 3)

• Wide range of renewable energy

technologies

• Utility-scale, grid-connected

projects

• Later-stage project development

support

• Attract private sector finance

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Managed by:

Renewable Energy Performance Platform

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Initiated by:

Funded by:

www.repp-africa.org

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REPP Key Issues/Barriers

• Limited sources of of development finance

• Limited commercial viability of small-scale renewable energy

projects

• Levelised costs are not sustainable/equity returns are low

• Long-term debt

• Unavailable

• pricing high

• tenors too short

• Lack of access to risk mitigation instruments

• Lack of technical know-how amongst small-scale developers

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REPP Mandate

• Small-scale renewables

• Least developed countries

• Nineteen target countries

• Wide range of renewable energy

technologies

• Developer-focused

• Unlocking private sector finance

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Products, Services and Solutions

1. Technical Assistance during Development

Technical studies

Legal and due diligence costs

2. Structuring Support

Financial structuring

Facilitating access to risk mitigation instruments

Facilitating access to long-term debt

3. Results-Based Finance

Results-based financial support to achieve commercial viability

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Disclaimer

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