Investeerders verleiden tot hernieuwbare energie

Gepubliceerd op 04-07-2016 om 00:14

4 juli 2016 – Een succesvolle transitie naar grootschalige inzet van hernieuwbare energie kan alleen lukken wanneer investeerders massaal kiezen voor hernieuwbaar. Het International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) heeft een rapport geschreven vol aanbevelingen hoe investeerders te verleiden zijn.

Schermafdruk 2016-07-03 14.51.40 Voor IRENA is het heel helder: als we nog een kans willen maken de klimaatdoelen te realiseren dan moet binnen 4 jaar het aandeel hernieuwbare energie wereldwijd verdubbelen (en per 2030 verdriedubbelen). En dat kan alleen als de wereld van de investeerders over de streep getrokken wordt. En hoewel er al heel veel in hernieuwbare energie geïnvesteerd wordt is de potentie vele malen groter.

IRENA heeft nu een rapport laten optellen vol met adviezen rond het stimuleren van de financiële wereld: ‘Unlocking Renewable Energy Investment: The role of risk mitigation and structured finance’.
Het beperken van de risico’s staat daarin dus centraal.

Uit een persbericht van IRENA
‘(…) “Renewables lie at the heart of the global energy transformation, which offers an economically attractive answer to energy security, energy access and climate change,” said Adnan Z. Amin, IRENA Director-General. “Markets worldwide can respond to the economic realities of renewables today and attract large-scale investors into the renewables sector.”
“This new report demonstrates that scaling up renewable energy investment to the levels required is possible through policy and financial tools at hand today,” added Mr. Amin. “Governments and other stakeholders now have the tools to take the actions needed to meeting global climate and sustainable development goals.”

The report analyses various financial instruments and structures and offers an all-in-one guide to scale up renewable energy investment worldwide. Case studies and survey results provide insights on challenges, opportunities and best-practices in different markets. The report identifies five main action areas where policy makers and public finance institutions can address risks and barriers facing renewable energy projects:

Tools and grants to support project preparation are vital to advance renewable energy projects from initiation to full investment maturity.
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Governments and public finance institutions should increase financing of local financial institutions and design on-lending facilities to improve access to capital and build local lending capacity.
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Public finance institutions should focus on leveraging private investment by increasing the use of existing guarantees and developing new, targeted risk mitigation instruments to address power-off taker, currency and liquidity risks.
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Capital market players should increasingly shift to standardised project documentation and processes to allow for the aggregation of projects while governments develop guidelines for green bonds issuance to mobilise more capital market investment.
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In accordance with the G20 Toolkit of Voluntary Options for Renewable Energy Deployment, dedicated financing facilities can be developed to issue risk mitigation instruments and support design and implementation of structured finance mechanisms for renewables. (…)’
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