Featured in Lift-off for MENA? – 01-2014

Shift in financing models

Southeast Asia: While regulatory support is being wound back as solar PV approaches grid parity, new business models and financing approaches are emerging. Ragna Schmidt-Haupt and Elena Baši? of the renewables advisory team of global consultancy DNV GL (formerly GL Garrad Hassan) explore the new models and the associated bankability challenges for solar in southeast Asia.

Solar PV deployment in southeast Asia continues steadily amid burgeoning economic growth, great solar resources, and supportive government policies. With weak economic growth in mature European and north American markets, in some cases due to the scaling back of policy support, the focus is shifting towards newer markets such as southeast Asia. The region is …

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