The Roosevelt New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
LPO Outreach and Business Development contractor Stuart Page will participate on the following panel:
"Lenders’ Perspectives on The Financing Outlook for 2024"
Despite rising interest rates, inflation, and economic uncertainty, demand for debt has remained robust. Major banks and lenders are continuing to align their portfolios with ESG and net-zero goals, financing an increasing amount of renewables and new technologies. But opportunities remain in the traditional gas markets as well, and after many years of trudging in a borrowers’ market, it’s a good time to be a lender. This panel will present lender-side perspectives on debt finance and will provide insights into the trends and outcomes of financing in today’s world, the current appetite to finance new projects in 2024’s dynamic environment, and the current sources of capital and competition for it. Listen as key financing themes are discussed:
- Where do lenders see the best opportunities in the post-IRA landscape, what are they looking to fund, and what kind of risk profiles are they looking for?
- How are they looking at projects using Transferability vs. traditional Tax Equity? And how will the cost of debt and cost of capital affect transfers?
- How has the regional banking collapse affected credit and availability/cost of capital?
- Where are lenders becoming more conservative in underwriting?
- How are they navigating the challenges of managing risk and liquidity in the current financial landscape?
- Where does US infrastructure debt investment sit, and what does the future hold for investors and borrowers?