The Future of Financial Asset Management is Plumbing, Not Dashboards
Dashboards don’t fix bad data. Pipelines do. In finance, it’s tempting to believe that fancy dashboards = control. But in practice, if data pipelines are weak, dashboards are just polished illusions. What looks like insight often hides inconsistency, latency, or mis-aggregation. This problem is amplified when your financial data sources originate outside your organization through […]
Beyond the SPV: What Aircraft Leasing Can Teach Renewables About Unlocking Capital
Renewables need trillions in new capital to hit global energy transition targets. Yet much of the sector remains trapped in SPV silos: every wind farm, solar park, or battery site is ring-fenced, largely financed separately and reported as an average of strong and weak assets. That structure got us here, but it won’t get us […]
Technical and Financial Asset Managers: The Unsung Heroes of Renewables
The renewable energy sector is expanding rapidly, leading to an increased burden of governance, compliance, and performance monitoring for asset owners due to more projects, special purpose vehicles (SPVs), regulatory requirements, and reporting. Much of this work is handled by outsourced service providers (OSPs), which are firms that provide financial and technical asset management for […]
Project Finance 101 Webinar
Are you new to renewable energy project financing? We put together a webinar that’s a 101 guide for asset managers to get familiar with the world of project financing. Industry expert John Harney, VP of Financial Products & Services at SkySpecs, breaks down the basics of project finance, the terminology you need to know, common […]
Containing O&M Wind Costs in European Asset Management
Portfolio management can help hedge against challenges Authors: Ray O’Neill and John Harney As global pressure mounts to accelerate the build-out of renewable energy, some new challenges are starting to appear. Inflation, greenflation, supply chain issues and permitting are some of the trends that can be difficult to mitigate for portfolio owners. As […]
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 […]
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 […]