Solar Finance Summit

Hosted by Adam Capital

The Solar Finance Summit is a training series designed specifically to help distributive scale residential and commercial roof top solar developers maximize income, compress time frames, and implement cutting edge business success strategies. The Solar Finance Summit is led by the Adam Capital team and features industry experts with direct experience in this niche.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?	Distributive, residential and rooftop scale commercial clean energy developers promoting projects of up to $10 million in total costs.
WHAT:	50-minute high impact webinars. View the weekly session topics below. View the weekly session topics.
WHEN:	Every second Thursday at 3 pm Pacific, beginning in March. Sessions 1 and 2 run back-to-back on Wednesday, March 24 and Thursday, March 25 at 3 pm Pacific.

Adam Capital's Commitment: Quality Training

Adam Capital is committed to addressing America's energy, economic, and environmental challenges. This targeted training for distributive clean energy developers is a service of Adam Capital. Via webinar delivery, the Summit compresses the learning curve, helping developers avoid pitfalls, overcome funding gaps, and enhance profitability.

Adam Capital operates on a local scale solving local problems in a distributive way. We recognize ample technology exists to take our industry forward for the next several years. Until now, training dedicated to commercial scale finance issues for distributive energy roof top scale developers has been missing. As a result, thousands of renewable energy projects remain stalled.

The distributive clean energy business environment involves complex structures, incentives and tax constraints, as well as challenging margins and constant change. The Solar Finance Summit is the ideal opportunity to compress your learning curve and take your business to new levels of profitability by learning from industry leaders with experience in your niche.

The Solar Finance Summit | Webinar Agenda

Session 1. Wednesday March 24th, 3:00 pm Pacific: Maximize Profitability & Minimizing Consumer Costs
Stacking incentives: Local, ITC, depreciation. Making the choice, PBI vs. Upfront Incentives: Present value calculations vs. cost of funds. Structuring the transaction to maximize federal incentives: Decision matrix for ITC and depreciation. Introduction to internal and external project financing options.
Session 2. Thursday March 25th, 3:00 pm Pacific: Internal Financing: Enhance Your Profitability
Why internal financing? Who owns the equipment? What's the source of the money to lend? Identifying the best clients for financing, pricing from the client's perspective. How financing can maximize profitability for developers. Structuring the internal finance offering, ITC and depreciation constraints in regard to internal financing.
Session 3. Thursday April 8th, 3:00 pm Pacific: Internal Leasing: Enhance Your Profitability
Why internal leasing, who owns the equipment, where do I get the money to pay for the equipment, who are the best clients for leasing, pricing a lease from your client's perspective, multiple entity structures, utility concerns, how does leasing maximize my profitability as a developer. Where does a developer go for installation funds?
Session 4. Thursday April 22nd, 3:00 pm Pacific: Internal Leasing: Enhance Your Profitability II
Consumer vs commercial clients, truth-in-leasing compliance, multiple entity structures. Analysis of how residential leasing can maximize profitability. ITC and depreciation constraints in regard to leasing.
Session 5. Thursday May 6th, 3:00 pm Pacific: Financial Analysis I
- The link between technical design and financial analysis
- How to calculate solar revenue
- How to calculate solar costs
Session 6. Thursday May 20th, 3:00 pm Pacific: Financial Analysis II
- The effect of subsidies, timing, and rate escalation (sensitivity analysis) - Identifying market opportunities
- Designing for optimized project value
Session 7. Thursday June 3rd, 3:00 pm Pacific: Depreciation Tax Equity: Tips & Traps
Raising investor money through selling depreciation losses. Basis, at-risk, and the investor perspective. Calculating discounted yield, tips, traps, and practice hints.
Session 8. Thursday June 17th, 3:00 pm Pacific: Investment Tax Credit: Tips & Traps
What do we do after the ITC Grant goes away? Qualifying properties, qualifying entities, first in use, section 263 basis, tips, traps, and practice hints.

PRESENTERS:	Adam Boucher, CEO, Adam Capital Larry Farris, Director of Loan Operations, Adam Capital Wallace Glausi, JD, LLM Tax, Partner, Ater Wynne (law)
REGISTRATION:	REGISTER NOW $199 for the entire series of eight sessions or $50 / session (register any time prior to session; payable online via credit card). If you missed it on March 11, we are presenting Session 1 a second time, on Wednesday, March 24 at 3 pm Pacific. Discounts available for teams of five or more.
CONTACT:	For more information about the Solar Finance Summit, lending, or sponsorship opportunities contact Larry Farris, 480-993-5513, Larry@AdamCapital.com