From Risk to a Bankable Mitigation Package
Organized by QPQ International
BRIDGE BETWEEN GREEN ENERGY
PROJECTS AND INVESTORS
Identifying a risk register is the easy half. What decides whether a project gets financed is what happens next — who carries each risk, what it costs to move it, and what is still sitting with equity after every contract is signed. Part One mapped the risks. Part Two prices them.
- The four moves - every mitigation decision is Transfer, Treat, Tolerate or Terminate. Which of the four levers - contractual, financial, technical, insurance - actually works for each of the nine risk categories, and where each one is close to useless
- Where mitigation fails - the largest part of the session. What a PPA, turnkey EPC, O&M agreement, OEM warranty and insurance policy each leave uncovered: LD caps below the real loss, availability that is not generation, BI waiting periods, serial-defect exclusions, and annual insurance renewal against 18-year debt
- What mitigation costs - indicative ranges: the turnkey EPC premium at 5-10% of EPC price, performance bonds at 1-3%, and how reserves, gearing and hedging move equity returns
- What equity still carries - a before-and-after view across all nine risk categories, and why policy and regulatory risk barely moves no matter what you sign
- Two worked cases - a 150 MW solar IPP in an emerging market and a 100 MW / 200 MWh BESS in a mature market, compared side by side on gearing, DSCR, tenor, equity IRR and largest residual risk
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Saad Feroze
Director - Execution and Risk Lead, QPQ International
Saad leads investment and transaction advisory at QPQ International, covering clean energy, renewable power, and digital infrastructure across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
He is a senior infrastructure and utilities advisory professional with over 15 years of experience delivering complex projects across the public and private sectors. He specializes in water, wastewater, energy, and transportation, supporting projects across the full lifecycle - from conceptualization and feasibility to procurement and financial close.
Saad has advised governments, public utilities, investors, and developers on major PPP and privatization programs, including leading the financial close of large-scale water and wastewater projects. His work focuses on developing commercially robust and bankable project structures, underpinned by sound commercial design and disciplined risk allocation. Previously, Saad held senior advisory roles at KPMG Middle East, where he led multidisciplinary teams on flagship utility and infrastructure programs. With experience on both sponsor and investor sides, he brings a pragmatic understanding of policy alignment, risk management, and bankability, working closely with lenders, regulators, and utility operators to deliver investment-ready outcomes.
His track record includes USD 1.4 billion of water and wastewater transactions taken to financial close as lead negotiator, and advisory roles on a USD 4 billion Saudi–Bahrain causeway and rail P3.
To Help Green Energy Project Sponsors Worldwide to Advance Development, Accelerate Financing, and Secure World-Class Partners for Their Projects
The Program specifically focuses on utility-scale projects initiated by professional teams in:
- Renewable Energy
- Waste-to-Energy
- Hydrogen
- Energy Storage
- Oksana TashakovaFounder & CEOA serial entrepreneur on a mission to make the world a better place, with a flair for disruptive innovation, strategy, and branding.
- Vlad TashakovFounder & Managing DirectorAn entrepreneur with a passion to build long lasting relationships and to enable innovators to advance their sustainability solutions.
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