Featured in Disrupt this space – 01-2015

New finance models primed for Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia: The southeastern region of Asia has an enviable solar resource and is home to some world-leading finance centers. The right combination of homegrown innovation and responding to global trends in finance will help to make the most of solar in the region. Ragna Schmidt-Haupt of DNV GL identifies several new global and local financing trends that could have a big impact in the region.

While Southeast Asia (SEA) is already seeing an increase in third-party ownership for example in Singapore, the region has yet to see the emergence of the securitization model through which SolarCity has raised $54 million in the United States. DNV GL’s analysis of the prerequisites for securitization assumes that there is no obvious barrier. Southeast …

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