Cases and Teaching Notes
By, Srinivasan Sunderasan
ISBN: 978-81-322-2062-6
Publisher: Springer, India.
Price: INR 5405
The book is a compilation of case studies from across countries and involves contemporary technologies including electric vehicles, solar thermal power plants etc. The book highlights the real-world situations facing individual projects and brings out the strengths and weaknesses of the underlying business propositions. It also throws light on the factors that are routinely ignored during project formulation and risk assessment viz., coordination among public and private agencies, confirmed availability of relatively minor but essential components, possibility of concurrent demand for inputs from different project proponents, etc. The book provides a systematic ‘guided-tour’ of the renewable energy (RE) projects for potential project analysts involving, inter alia, the development of financial models and culminates with an evaluation of risk and the design of risk-mitigation measures. It is designed to simultaneously appeal to business school students and to serve as a do-it-yourself guide for practicing executives, policy makers and consultants. The cases cover several countries, currencies, policy environments, technologies, resources and help policy makers, consultants and project analysts and proponents view RE projects in a new light.