Renewable Energy Project Appraisals, Valuation and Cost Segregation Studies

April 3-4, 2023 | Online :: Central Time

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“EUCI programs provide an opportunity for strong leaders to meet, learn, and collaborate. Highly recommend their events.” Director – Valuation & Advisory, Cushman & Wakefield

Appraisals and cost segregation studies: project developers, investors and sponsors, lenders and other parties essential to these deals pin most of their proprietary decisions on this critical valuation component. 

This 1½ day symposium will examine the various dimensions that make a project “bankable”:

• Dominant appraisal methodologies
• Appraisal nuances among the various classes of renewable energy project types
• Accounting for differences in used, mature and repowering assets vs. new project assets
• Best practices for assigning costs appropriately through cost segregation studies
• What boundaries and roles that different parties – project developers, investors and sponsors, lenders and advisors – play in the formulation of a sound, enduring appraisal
• Impact of Inflation Recovery Act and other policy initiatives on appraisals and cost segregation studies

Project developers, investors and sponsors, lenders and other parties involved in renewable energy project development and M&A will glean compelling insights to ensure the formulation of sound, enduring best practices related to appraisal and related cost segregation studies.

Learning Outcomes

• Review the three approaches to value of an appraisal
• Explore the role of an appraisal in M&A and tax equity financing transactions
• Assess the manifold externalities that can affect the appraisal
• Analyze fair market value for debt underwriting purposes
• Examine appraised values for tax equity investment purposes
• Evaluate the distinctions between cost segregation and cost certification studies to assign costs appropriately
• Discuss the use of appraisals for property tax purposes
• Identify prominent distinctions in appraisals between various renewable energy resources and their development cycle

Monday, April 3, 2023 : Central Time

 

1:00 – 1:20 p.m. :: Overview & Introductions

1:20 – 3:00 p.m. :: Anatomy of an Appraisal

• Purposes of an appraisal
• Three approaches to value
• Typical standards of value
• Factors that can affect the appraisal
• Post-IRA vs. pre-IRA considerations

Fernando Sosa, Director – Valuation & Advisory, Cushman & Wakefield

James F. Duffy, Partner & Chair – Renewable Energy Tax Credit Team, Nixon Peabody LLP

Tony Grappone, Partner, Novogradac & Company LLP

3:00 – 3:15 p.m. :: Afternoon Break

3:15 – 4:45 p.m. :: Analyzing the Market Approach

• Application of the market approach in appraisals
• Guideline companies
• Secondary market sources

Analyzing the Income Approach

• Overview
• Evaluating project cash flows and inputs / assumptions
• Calculating a discount rate
• Other considerations
• Critical inputs and assumptions

James F. Duffy, Partner & Chair – Renewable Energy Tax Credit Team, Nixon Peabody LLP

Steve Munson, Senior Manager for Valuation Advisory – Transactions & Turnaround Advisory, CohnReznick

4:45 p.m. :: Program Adjourns for the Day

 

Tuesday, April 4, 2023 : Central Time

 

9:00 – 9:45 a.m. :: Analyzing the Cost Approach

• Indirect method
• Direct method
• Indirect vs. Direct method
• Useful life
• The three forms of depreciation

Tony Grappone, Partner, Novogradac & Company LLP

Katie Zinski, Manager – Transactions & Business Analysis, Deloitte & Touche LLP

9:45 – 10:30 a.m. :: Analyzing the FMV for Debt Underwriting

• Loan-to-value (LTV)
• Debt coverage service ratio (DSCR)

Moderator: Tony Grappone, Partner, Novogradac & Company LLP

David Boisture, Partner, Novogradac & Company LLP

Joseph Ritter, Executive Vice President, Seminole Financial Services LLC

10:30 – 10:45 a.m. :: Morning Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. :: Analyzing Appraised Values for Purposes of Tax Equity

• Evaluating and appraisal determination
• Tax equity credit insurance
• Effect on financial model

Moderator:  James F. Duffy, Partner & Chair – Renewable Energy Tax Credit Team, Nixon Peabody LLP

Tony Grappone, Partner, Novogradac & Company LLP

Corey Lewis, Managing Director, Aon Transaction Solutions

Camelia Miu, CFO, Nautilus

Fernando Sosa, Director – Valuation & Advisory, Cushman & Wakefield

12:15 – 1:00 p.m. :: Lunch Break

1:00 – 2:15 p.m. :: Assigning Costs Appropriately

• What is a cost segregation study?
• MACRS eligibility
• Depreciation
• What is a cost certification study?
• Differences between cost segregation and cost certification
• Legal precedents
• CARES Act impact on cost segregation studies
• Distinguishing between different classes of renewable energy assets

Katie Zinski, Manager – Transactions & Business Analysis, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Tony Grappone, Partner, Novogradac & Company LLP

2:15 – 3:00 p.m. :: Accounting for Differences in Project Development Stage

• Used
• Mature
• Repowering Assets vs. New Property

Fernando Sosa, Director – Valuation & Advisory, Cushman & Wakefield

James F. Duffy, Partner & Chair – Renewable Energy Tax Credit Team, Nixon Peabody LLP

3:00 – 3:15 p.m. :: Afternoon Break

3:15 – 3:45 p.m. :: Considerations in Evaluating a Property Tax Assessment and Estimating Property Taxes in an Acquisition

• Introduction
• Case law overview
• Other criteria for determining intangible asset valuation
• Key factors in valuation for property taxes
• Other factors and considerations

Fernando Sosa, Director – Valuation & Advisory, Cushman & Wakefield

3:45 – 5:00 p.m. :: Addressing the Impact of Externalities on Appraisals and Cost Segregation Studies

• Inflation Reduction Act
• Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act
• Supply Chain Bottlenecks
• Tariffs
• Other policy conditions

Panel Discussion

5:00 p.m. :: Course Adjournment

• David Boisture, Partner, Novogradac & Company LLP

• James F. Duffy, Partner & Chair – Renewable Energy Tax Credit Team, Nixon Peabody LLP 

• Tony Grappone, Partner, Novogradac & Company LLP

• Corey Lewis, Managing Director, Aon Transaction Solutions

• Camelia Miu, Chief Financial Officer, Nautilus

• Steve Munson, Senior Manager for Valuation Advisory – Transactions & Turnaround Advisory, CohnReznick LLP

• Joseph Ritter, Executive Vice President, Seminole Financial Services, LLC

• Fernando Sosa, Director – Valuation & Advisory, Cushman & Wakefield

• Katie Zinski, Manager – Transactions & Business Analysis, Deloitte Advisory LLP

We will be using Microsoft Teams to facilitate your participation in the upcoming event. You do not need to have an existing Teams account in order to participate in the broadcast – the course will play in your browser and you will have the option of using a microphone to speak with the room and ask questions, or type any questions in via the chat window and our on-site representative will relay your question to the instructor.

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Renewable Energy Project Appraisals, Valuation and Cost Segregation Studies

April 3-4, 2023 | Online

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Credits

EUCI is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard. IACET is recognized internationally as a standard development organization and accrediting body that promotes quality of continuing education and training.

EUCI is authorized by IACET to offer 1.1 CEUs for this event

Instructional Methods

This program will use PowerPoint Presentations and group discussions. 

Requirements For Successful Completion  

Participants must log on each day and be in attendance for the entirety of the course to be eligible for continuing education credit.

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Upon successful completion of this event, program participants interested in receiving CPE credits will receive a certificate of completion.

Course CPE Credits: 12.5
There is no prerequisite for this Course.
Program field of study: Specialized Knowledge
Program Level: Basic
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based
Advanced Preparation: None

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