Moritz Loock
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  • Publication
    Debt For Brands: Tracking Down A Bias In Financing Photovoltaic Projects In Germany
    (Elsevier, 2011-08)
    Lüdeke-Freund, Florian
    ;
    Loock, Moritz
    What kinds of PV project configurations do lenders prefer to finance? Recent developments in the field of renewable energy project finance have reinforced the need for investigation, as fundraising has become more challenging and project evaluation by banks more demanding. To contribute to the limited research in this field, we focus on photovoltaic projects and report from an Adaptive Choice-Based Conjoint experiment with German experts in project finance. We find a bias which we call "debt for brands". Simulations reveal that debt investors prefer projects with premium brand technology (modules, inverters) to low-cost technology. Although we assumed that lenders prefer projects with the highest Debt Service Cover Ratio (DSCR), they favour projects with lower DSCR, as long as those projects include premium brand technology. We find that, if premium brands were engaged, lenders would also choose projects with higher risk. Our findings have implications for renewable energy project finance in practice and research
    Type: journal article
    Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 12
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.04.006
    URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/93777
    Scopus© Citations 21