Themes and Topics
The conference will focus on, but is not limited to, the following themes:
● Cost of Capital and Clean Energy Investment: How the cost and availability of capital affect clean energy deployment; the role of domestic savings and foreign capital; financing constraints for capital-intensive technologies; and the implications of financing costs for competitiveness and green economic growth.
● Foreign Capital and Cross-Border Finance: How foreign debt, equity, and global institutional capital can reduce the cost of capital and improve project viability; restrictions on external commercial borrowing and foreign investment; currency risk; and the cost of long-horizon hedging.
● Project Finance, Risk Allocation and Political Economy: How project finance, contracts, and business models allocate construction, demand, currency, and regulatory risks; the role of power purchase agreements, contract enforcement, utility creditworthiness, subsidies, and guarantees in project bankability; and the political economy of who bears costs, captures benefits, and shapes financial and regulatory reforms.
● International Comparative Evidence: Lessons from countries that have mobilised private and foreign capital for the energy transition, including evidence on financing costs, institutional arrangements, and regulatory and financial innovations.
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