Brian Travers Joins Fincovi as Director of Global Financial Services

Press Release 01.02.2021 – Brian Travers Joins Fincovi as Director of Global Financial Services Former Group Financial Controller for Phelan Energy, Brian Travers, joins Fincovi to head up global financial services division Brian Travers – Director of Financial Services @ Fincovi Brian comes to Fincovi with significant experience in the renewable energy sector. ACA qualified […]

Lease Payments – Getting them right from the start

Now that the Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) is about to kick off and land options will be converting to leases we felt it was timely to get our perspective on land leases down on paper. This blog post is framed around the commercial questions that can often go unanswered but which can provide some […]

RESS-1 & Inflation, the Forgotten Sensitivity

RESS Auction – Strategy The Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) is designed to promote investment in renewable energy generation in Ireland. This competitive auction requires developers or operators to bid in at their required rate of return, and if successful will be paid in line with their bid. In most European markets, similar renewable energy […]

Do you want to grow AUM?

Managing the financial, compliance and regulatory risks across a growing portfolio is getting more and more complex with the exposure to errors, that lead to a reduction in investor confidence and higher costs of capital, increasing all the time. At SkySpecs we see that the successful asset managers and fund administrators use financial administration, risk […]

SkySpecs advises EQTEC plc on sale of wind farm

Press Release 02.09.2020: Fincovi (now SkySpecs) advises EQTEC plc (AIM:EQT) on sales of Pluckanes Windfarm to BVP. Damian Malone, Fincovi’s Head of Advisory & Chief Strategy Officer 20.092020 Dublin, Ireland – Fincovi, an Irish financial services and advisory specialist in the renewable energy industry now part of SkySpecs, has successfully advised EQTEC, a world-leading gasification […]

Stargazing with Machine Learning

By Jonas Svenstrup Hansen   Machine learning is transforming the wind energy industry, driven by the requirement for scalable data analysis to reduce costs. Observation of the universe is a domain increasingly dominated by huge telescope projects that produce vast quantities of complex data. Both fields thus share a common problem: There is too much data […]

Is there a new investor in town?

Covid Investors Covid Investors, a rather new term, are people who have capital to invest and have been awoken by the Covid-19 global crisis to the power of externalities like viruses but also climate change. People are seeing the damage caused firsthand and the penny has dropped that if you wait until you can feel […]

What differentiates a top quartile renewable energy asset manager/fund?

Renewable energy asset performance management is maturing as the industry develops with yield/returns top of everyone’s mind. Every asset manager and fund manager in the sector is striving to grow their assets under management (AuM) by raising more funds an acquiring more assets. The difference between the top quartile and the rest is related to […]

How to improve asset IRRs?

The job of any good asset owner or fund manager is to buy under-valued cash flows (i.e. the future income from a wind or solar farm) and enhance the income stream to improve the value/returns for investors. Let’s take a look at how this can be achieved. Activity Reduce asset financial admin costs Each SPVs […]