wind farm

Renewable energy focused underwriting specialists, GCube Underwriting Ltd. (GCube), has launched a new weather risk transfer product for the wind and hydroelectric energy sectors, an area that increasingly reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) players seek to tap into.

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, a division of the global reinsurance firm, has provided Infigen Energy with a pioneering wind farm hedge, protecting it across areas of Southern Australia, New South Wales and Western Australia from low-wind weather cycles.

Nephila Capital, the largest asset manager providing investments in natural catastrophe and weather risk, has provided the risk transfer capacity for a wind variability hedge for a project aiming to be New York State’s first community owned wind farm.

A report published today by reinsurer Swiss Re looks at the growing energy markets, how they are forecast to change and grow as renewable energy sources become ever more important and policy begins to reflect climate science and how they will require financing and risk transfer solutions. The report identifies a growing opportunity for reinsurers, […]

A couple of weeks ago we wrote about renewable energy risk analysis firm 3TIER® who published a wind performance map for the U.S. in 2011 which showed that generally wind speeds across the U.S. were above average across the year. Now 3Tier have published a wind performance map for Europe and again it shows that […]

Renewable energy risk analysis firm 3TIER® have published a wind performance map for the whole of 2011 which shows that generally wind speeds across the U.S. were above average across the year. Some regions saw wind speeds well above normal, as much as 15%, while others saw wind speeds -5% below their norm.

A really interesting new weather risk hedging product designed to help the wind power industry hedge the financial risk of wind variability has just been announced in a joint statement by renewable energy risk analysis firm 3TIER® and Galileo Weather Risk Management. They’ve collaborated to create a financial instrument that could have a huge impact […]

The winners of the annual Environmental Finance awards, which recognise the best transactions and leading individuals in environmental markets, have been announced. In the category of best Catastrophe Risk Deal; Scor has come in tops with it’s Atlas V catastrophe bond deal. It was the first deal post-Lehmans collapse and the award essentially recognises that […]