Monday, July 10, 2017

Wall Street Sours on $9 Billion Mechanism for Green Projects - Bloomberg

Wall Street Sours on $9 Billion Mechanism for Green Projects - Bloomberg



...Yieldcos first emerged in 2013, when the largest U.S. independent power producer, NRG Energy Inc., launched NRG Yield Inc. The parent formed the yieldco to hold operating wind and solar farms that it had built or acquired. Revenue from those assets funded dividends....



...Pattern Energy and NRG Yield are projected to pay 12-month dividend yields of 6.4 percent and 6.5 percent...dividends that flow from electricity sales guaranteed by long-term contracts. And because the yieldcos promised to buy more and more projects, the dividends would only grow.

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