Strategic Finance for Green Energy Projects

India has announced an ambitious target of 500 GW of non-fossil electricity capacity by 2030. India’s target of installing 500 GW of non-fossil electricity capacity by 2030 will require an unprecedented scale of investment—recent estimates place the need between $300 billion and $385 billion (?25–30 lakh crore) over the next six to seven years. Moody’s projects $190–215 billion for capacity additions (solar, wind, hybrid, and storage) and $150–170 billion for transmission and distribution, while government statements align with a total requirement of about ?30 lakh crore. Independent analyses, such as those from Ember and Bloomberg NEF, highlight that annual capital flows must ramp up to roughly $68 billion per year—more than five times the ~$13 billion invested in the past year—to stay on track, with significant allocations for grid integration, storage, and carbon-free balancing resources. Within this envelope, financing must cover both greenfield generation projects and enabling infrastructure such as the ?2.44 lakh crore ($30 billion) transmission expansion outlined by the CEA, demanding innovative funding solutions, green bonds, sustainability-linked loans, InvITs, blended finance, and public-private partnerships—to mobilise capital at the required pace while managing credit, policy, and execution risks. Financing at scale—while preserving bankability, risk-adjusted returns, and grid stability—requires a coordinated approach by project developers, corporate CFOs, lenders (REC, PFC, IREDA, banks/NBFCs), investors (domestic and global), and policymakers. This intensive three-day program blends policy context, capital-market instruments, project finance structuring, due diligence, risk allocation, ESG, carbon markets, and practical modeling to equip participants to originate, evaluate, and close green energy transactions.

Objectives

• Map the ?-trillion financing requirement implied by 500 GW by 2030 across solar, wind, hybrid, RE+storage, transmission, and green hydrogen pilot pathways.
• Structure bankable project finance and corporate finance deals including SPVs, revenue securitization, and cash-flow waterfalls.
• Evaluate policy/regulatory risk (open access, ALMM, ISTS waiver/charges, RPO/RGO, REC market, BESS norms) and reflect it in term sheets.
• Compare funding sources: term loans, ECBs, green bonds (use-of-proceeds), sustainability-linked loans (SLL), InvITs, infrastructure debt funds (IDFs), blended finance, and credit
   enhancements.
• Build a concise Excel cash-flow model with DSCR/LLCR metrics and perform sensitivity.
• Design risk-mitigation packages: payment security, escrow/TRA, change-in-law buffers, FX hedging, and resource/technology warranties.
• Assess ESG, climate risk, and taxonomy alignment; prepare for assurance, impact reporting, and second-party opinions.
• Negotiate lender term sheets, security packages, covenants, and inter-creditor frameworks; align with REC/PFC/IREDA appraisal lenses.

Contents

Policy & Regulatory: Non-fossil targets, national transmission plan, open access, ISTS frameworks, RPO/RGO trajectories, renewable energy certificates (market design), SECI and state procurement trends, BESS policy contours, and implications for bankability.
Project Finance Essentials: SPV set-up, capital structure, TRA/escrow mechanics, DSRA sizing, base-case vs lender's case, ratios (DSCR, LLCR, PLCR), covenants (debt, distribution, information), and security package.
Offtake & Revenue Modeling: Tariff setting, CfD/viability gap considerations, C&I PPA clauses (take-or-pay, curtailment, change in law), merchant risk caps, and credit enhancement for weaker offtaker.
Capital Markets & Structures: REC/PFC/IREDA products, ECB eligibility/compliance, green bonds/SLL frameworks, InvITs for operating pools, IDFs/refinancing, credit guarantees/partial risk guarantees, blended finance, and FX strategy.

Who should attend?

Corporate finance leaders, Project Heads, Treasury heads, and CFOs of energy and infrastructure firms; project developers; bankers and credit officers from REC, PFC, IREDA, PSU/private banks and NBFCs; investors, rating analysts, policy professionals, and legal/project advisors

Venue & Duration

The programme is scheduled during November 10-12, 2025 on a residential basis at MDI Campus, Mehrauli Road, Sukhrali, Gurugram. Accommodation for participants would be available at MDI Campus from the noon of November 09, 2025, to the forenoon of November 13, 2025.

Registration & Fees

Participants should be nominated by their organizations. The enclosed nomination form should be completed and returned with all the details. The fee of the program is Rs. 42,500/- (Rupees Forty Two Thousand Five Hundred only) per participant which includes a professional fee and all charges for boarding, lodging and supply of course materials during the programme. GST as applicable will be charged extra in addition to the programme fee. Payment should be made by Cheque/NEFT/RTGS.

Discount Policy
With a view to our long-term relationship with your esteemed organization, we are pleased to introduce the discount policy in this programme. The discount will be observed in the following conditions: (discount is applicable in NEPAL also)
• 10% Discount against 3-5 nominations
• 20% Discount against more than 5 nominations

Important Dates

The last date for receipt of nominations is October 27, 2025. The last date for withdrawal of nominations is October 28, 2025. Any withdrawal received after this date will be subject to deduction as per the Institute’s rules. However, substitution may be permitted.
Nominating organizations are advised to await confirmation of acceptance of nominations(s) before sending the participants to the programme venue.

For enquiry, please contact at [email protected] or +91-124-4560008.