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The results of expected profitability of subsidized biofuel plant
revealed significant differences among the selected EU
countries.
Despite the fact that the subsidy legislation is a topical issue in
many countries, it is not often reflected in the cash flow
budgeting of the subsidized projects and their expected
profitability calculation. A possible reason is that the discount
rate for unsupported projects captures an alternative yield that is
influenced by the level of a project risk, both the internal and
external. In subsidized renewable energy projects the internal
yield is promised by the legislature in order to support the
production of energy from renewable sources. As such, it has
different qualities; significant risks within subsidized projects
should be therefore incorporated additionally. One possible way
how to achieve it is presented above.
4 Conclusions
The risk of legislative change concerning the subsidized projects
can affect their expected profitability. In order to quantify this
threat we lean to rating evaluation that includes various risks
regarding possible subsidy legislative change. Despite the
criticism of the rating predictive value, it is generally perceived
as a good assessment tool.
We worked with Euromoney country rating data, which were
transformed to express the certainty degree of stability in
subsidy legislation for a group of EU countries. The value of
certainty degree may e.g. involve risk of cuts in feed-in tariffs
payed for energy produced by renewable resource plants. This
induced threat was described as market risk and measured by
means of a relation of the actual purchase price and budgeted
price. The lower the certainty degree, the greater the level of
market risk. The approach to expression and incorporation of
certainty degree and from it derived market risk is the original
contribution of this paper.
On the realization level the certainty degree performs weights in
the formula for expected profitability calculation measured by
E[NPV]. The aforementioned view of the components of risk of
legislative change incorporated in the profitability measure was
subjected to the methodology part in which the idea and essence
is justified.
This approach was applied to assess the risk of a legislative
change on the subsidized project profitability of an average
biofuel plant. Within the profitability calculation the average
yearly cash flows reflecting market risk were calculated. Based
on this, the E[NPV] in dependence of certainty degree was
expressed for the selected set of countries. Results revealed
significant differences in expected profitability of renewable
resource productions among the countries in a group. One of the
reasons seem to be non-reflecting the legislative risk within the
discount rate. The size of it is given by legislation to promote
renewable energy production and as such has different qualities
compared to unsubsidized projects. Significant risks of
subsidized projects should therefore be taken into account in the
calculations additionally, for example, as indicated in the article.
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