*How does a renewable enrgy hedge benefit energy users, energy developers, and the ecosphere?
*How does a CFD allows institutions to take advantages of renewable development without any capital committment?
*Renewable hedges as a way to change energy from variable to net annual fixed cost for up to 20 years, offset
carbon emissions in the voluntary market, and help build the renewable resource infrastructure;
*Why is a renewable hedge possible between widely separated users and renewable facilities? Renewable energy hedge as
a financial swap not a power purchase.
*How does a renewable hedge settle each month?
*How does my institution build a renewable hedge portfolio?
*Examples of available renewable hedge opportunities.
2. Building A renwable Energy Hedge Portfolio: Taking Advantage of Hedge Opportunities
*The SNHU example of sizing, negotiating and implementing a renewable hedge.
* How can my institution precisely size a renewable energy hedge?
* How large or how small can a hedge program be? Is there an optimal size?
* Can we have hedges with multiple renewable faciltites, of different types and terms?
* How can we use both capital free CFD and or fixed cost Capacity Investment Hedges?
* How can a renewable hedge cover both electricity and heating costs?
* How can a hedge work between widely separate markets?
* How does the renewable hedge work as a financial swap, not as a power purchase?
*What's the relationship between my renewable energy hedge portfolio and energy purchase strategy?
*How to structure hedges to include a financial swap for power, a REC purchase, and other renwable environemental
attributes?
* How to combine REC carbon offsets purchases with sale of RECs from campus renewable development projects?
* How to predict future economic performance of the renewable hedge under probable, high and low future price change
scenarios?
* What's basis risk and what does this mean for renewable hedges compared to market risk?
* How can we minimize potential early year hedge payments through combination with performance contracting?
* How is the ISDA standard agreement used as the fair basis for renewable hedges?
*How renewable hedges settle monthly? Why happens if the wind doesn't blow?
*What's the buyer's verification agent?
* Legal issues and accounting questions for renewable hedges.
* Using hedges to take a leadership role in renewable development, partnering with renewable development in New York and Kansas.
