Until recently, the uptake of renewable energy
technology for electricity generation has been slow,
with most projects being larger scale developments.
Although small-scale, the new entrants in this market
require financial backing to realise their developments
from both capital investment and insurance perspectives,
just as the largescale developments do. Unfortunately,
the financial services industry has limited experience
and understanding of renewable energy projects and their
associated risk factors. This project summarises the
technical risk factors pertaining to the renewable
technologies of most interest to new sector entrants.
By considering the nature of the renewable resource
being used by each technology and examining both the
commercially available and prototype device technology,
it is possible to realise the technology specific risk
factors, as well as the more generic technical issues
common across technologies during construction and
operational phases of a development. pdf 2010
