Tax Equity and Hybrid Financial Modeling (Online)
This online course provides an overview to tax equity structures commonly used in U.S. renewable energy investments, with a focus on the development of a financial model.
Available as lessons are released (see website)
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0.1 Best Practice - Principles
0.2 Best Practice Formulas
0.3 Best Practice - Flags and Conditional Formats
0.4 Best Practice - Styles
0.5 Best Practice - Accounts
0.6 Data Validation
0.7 Named Ranges
0.8 MWT - Model Familiarization
0.9 Model Checks
Precourse chapter slides
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Glossary of Terms
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1.1 Model walk-through (MWT) instructions
1.2 MWT (S1) - SPV calculation overview
1.3 US Depreciation
1.4 Tax - assembling the pieces
1.5 MWT (S2) - Project level tax and accounting depreciation
1.6 Intro to US Tax Credits
1.7 US Tax Credits (ITC)
1.8 US Tax Credits (PTC)
1.9 US Tax Credit Structure
1.10 Prevailing wage & apprenticeship
1.11 Domestic content
1.12 Energy community
1.13 Low-income communities
1.14 MWT (S3) - US tax credit modeling
1.15 Fair Market Value (FMV)
1.16 Project benefits
1.17 MWT (S4) - Summary of project level benefits
1.18 IRA Introduction
1.19 Chapter 1 Quiz
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2.1 Introduction to tax equity and back-leverage
2.2 Disproportionate allocations
2.3 MWT (S5) - Disproportionate allocation calculations
2.4 MWT (S6) - Initial returns to tax equity investors
2.5 Changing the Scenario Input from Any Sheet
2.6 Overall back-leverage structure example (demo)
2.7 Linear, mortgage style, and DSCR sculpted repayment types
2.8 DSCR sculpting demo
2.9 DSCR debt sizing (part 1) - fixed interest rate
2.10 MWT (S7) - Back-leverage debt repayments and debt sizing
2.11 Net operating losses carried forward
2.12 MWT (S8) - Sponsor tax calculations
2.13 MWT (S9) - Sponsor returns
2.14 Sensitivities and Scenarios
2.15 Data Tables
2.16 MWT (S9b) - Initial model sensitivities
2.17 Chapter 2 Quiz
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3.1 Introduction to partnership capital accounts
3.2 MWT (S10) - Total partnership capital account
3.3 Tax equity s704(b) capital account
3.4 MWT (S11) - s704(b) tax capital account (part 1, introduction)
3.5 Tax equity s704(b) capital account reallocations
3.6 MWT (S12) - s704(b) tax capital account (part 2, reallocations)
3.7 Tax equity s704(b) capital account DROs
3.8 MWT (S13) - s704(b) tax capital account (part 3, DRO)
3.9 Tax equity s704(b) sponsor capital account and checks
3.10 MWT (S14) - s704(b) sponsor tax capital account
3.11 Chapter 3 Quiz
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4.1 Outside basis tax capital accounts
4.2 MWT (S15) - Tax equity outside basis capital account
4.3 Tax capital accounts interim summary
4.4 MWT (S16) - Sponsor equity outside basis capital account
4.5 Chapter 4 Quiz
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