Exclusive executive briefing covering demand drivers, pricing trends, and how consolidation will impact M&A in the solar, wind and storage markets in the next five years.
4. Matt
DaPrato
Wood Mackenzie
Power & Renewables
Product Suite Director
Prajit
Ghosh
Wood Mackenzie
Power & Renewables
Head of Global Strategy
#gtm
Investing in US renewables: Weighting risks and rewards
in a changing environment
5. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Wood Mackenzie offices Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables offices
Wood Mackenzie is ideally
positioned to support
consumers, producers and
financers of the new energy
economy.
— Acquisition of MAKE and Greentech
Media (GTM)
— Leaders in renewables, EV demand
and grid-connected storage
— Over 500 sector-dedicated analysts and
consultants globally, including 75
specifically to power and renewables
— Located close to clients and industry
contacts
About Wood Mackenzie
We provide commercial insight and access to our experts leveraging our integrated proprietary metals, energy
and renewables research platform
6. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Market evolutions and technology
revolutions have disrupted legacy
business models, creating a new
energy landscape
The Power Market of the Past
A top-down, flow from supply to demand
Dispatchable
Generation
Transmission Distribution
End
Customers
Tomorrow’s Decarbonized and Decentralized Power Market
A bi-directional energy network with new technologies and actors at every node reshaping power market planning and operations
Dispatchable
Generation
Transmission Distribution End Customers
Intermittent
Generation
Energy
Storage
Advanced Metering
Infrastructure
Distributed
Generation
Electric
Vehicles
Connected
Devices
Demand Side
Management
10. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Wind remains cost-competitive with CCGT but is less competitive with utility
PV in several state markets
Solar to wind LCOE ratios of top 15 wind states by installation total, 2019e to 2028e
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
2.0
0.0x
0.5
3.0x
1.0
1.5
2.5
’19e ’21e’20e ’22e ’23e ’24e ’25e ’27e’26e ’28e
1
PTC phaseout
WY CA, CO, NM, NY, TX IL, IA, KS, MI, MN, NE, ND, OK, SD
15. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
The United States could add three California’s before the 2020 election
-
200
400
600
800
1,000
1,200
2019RetailSales(TWh)
California Full Democratic
Control
10 states equaling
2.5 California’s
propose 100% targets
New York
Illinois
Washington
New Jersey
Colorado
Oregon
Nevada
Connecticut
New Mexico
Maine
80% targets represents
2 California’s
Split Control
3 ‘split’ states
equaling 0.75
California’s
propose
100% targets
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Massachusetts
Republican Control
2 Republican
states
equaling 1.25
California’s
propose 100%
targets
Arizona Florida
A 60% target
across these
states
represents 3
California’s
18. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
The Renewables & Storage paradigm is here
Clean Energy growth & Reliability in focus: East meets West
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
CAISO PJM
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
YearlyQueueRequests(GW)
Energy Storage Solar Offshore Wind
Wind Other Gas
Hydro Coal Nuclear
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
YearlyQueueRequests(GW)
Energy Storage Solar Offshore Wind
Wind Other Gas
Hydro Coal Nuclear
19. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Highlights from Wood Mackenzie’s Reference forecast reiterates
the Renewables Transition
• SOLAR, WIND, ENERGY EFFICIENCY: 45% of generation by 2040
• DISTRIBUTED SOLAR: 30% of all solar generation in 2040
• OFFSHORE WIND: 20% of wind generation by 2040
• 150 GW of BATTERY STORAGE capacity by 2040
• BATTERY STORAGE beat out new NATURAL GAS peakers 5:1
20. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
-20
-10
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
2020 2025 2030 2035 2040
Real$/MWh
Levelized Cost of Solar Merchant Revenue Scenarios
Investing in Renewables: Value Drivers and Risks
The ERCOT utility solar example
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
REFERENCE CASE
Less Carbon prices
Less Scarcity
Less Gas Price
(flat after 2025)
• Energy Risk
• Capacity
• RECs
• Basis Risk
• Shape Risk
• Financing
21. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Assessing Risks
What drives what ?
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
Digitization
Energy
Transition
Technology
&
Big Data
Environment
&
Sustainability
TECHNOLOGY
EVOLUTION
RENEWABLESELECTRIFICATION
POLICY
EVOLUTION
23. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Carbon Pricing Risk: Will there be carbon pricing ? What level ?
Increasing focus on decarbonization, carbon pricing, and electrification mitigates uncertainty
Source: Wood Mackenzie, EIA, EPA
-50%
-25%
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
2000 2008 2016 2024 2032 2040
PercentaboveorbelowINDCGoals
Electrification:
The road to meeting
economy-wide NDCsPower Sector
Non-Power Sector (Transport, Industrials, ResCom)
Why federal carbon pricing is
our baseline expectation ?
• Required for continued
decarbonization of energy
• Increasing momentum from
non-federal actors
• Market initiatives to integrate carbon
into forward markets
• Proxy revenue stream for future
regulatory change ( RPS mandates)
• BUT HOW DO WE QUANTIFY ?
Carbon prices needed to
decarbonize
25. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Value Deflationary Risk in a renewables paradigm
From 25% premium to average prices to a 3% discount
Source: Wood Mackenzie
-10
45
100
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
ERCOT 2018
Solar Captured Premium
25%
ERCOT 2040
Solar Captured Premium
-3%
AnnualCapturedPremium
P05 P50 P95Price Scale:
2040SolarUtilization
2040
-10
45
100
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2018
-10%
5%
20%
35%
2018
2040
26. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
More solar implies value creation for Wind
Source: Wood Mackenzie
-45%
-30%
-15%
0%
2040
ERCOT 2018
Wind Captured Discount
-27%
ERCOT 2040
Wind Captured Discount
-12%20402018
-10
45
100
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
Jan
Jul
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
AnnualCaptured
Premium
P05 P50 P95Price Scale:
2040WindUtilization
28. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
(2)
3
8
13
18
2018 2022 2026 2030 2034 2038
bcfdGas price risk: Rising gas prices ensure higher residual value despite value deflation
North America leans more heavily on the global market to develop domestic supply
Source: Wood Mackenzie
Gas prices drivers
LNG
Other & Transport
Industrial
Mexico
LDC
Canada
Power
• 170 tcf of associated gas is economic <$50/bbl
• 15 bcfd of dry gas supply could come online annually at sub-
$2.50 HH but the market only needs 10-11 bcfd for 2019-25
• Global LNG demand drives growth despite global renewables
growth @5-15% p.a.
• Exhaustion of low-cost resource and higher transportation
cost drive up long-term new-drill supply curve
• Henry Hub
• $2.50 in early 2020s; Approached $3.00 by 2028 and $4.00 in 2033.
• Becomes a premium market long term with exceptions
US demand & exports relative to 2017
30. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Scarcity Price Risk
Scarcity pricing may account for 50-70% of the power price during peak months in ERCOT
Source: Wood Mackenzie
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
Jan-20 Feb-20 Mar-20 Apr-20 May-20 Jun-20 Jul-20 Aug-20 Sep-20 Oct-20 Nov-20 Dec-20
Nominal$/MWh
Scarcity Pricing significantly
more volatile and may not
materialize for years
Woodmac Scarcity Price
Woodmac SRMC
Argus Forward Curve
36. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Electrification & Decentralization: New realities and risks on the horizon
Continued shifts in paradigm will create new operational realities and planning risks
By 2040:
• 23 mm households expected to have solar rooftops
(16% of total)
• 7 out of 10 cars sold are electric
• Proliferation of grid edge technologies
• AMI, DERMS, customer analytics, Voice enabled and
connected devices..
Source: Wood Mackenzie
Note: EVs includes battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.
Electric trucks are not included.
37. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Key Takeaways
• Macro factors create significant uncertainty but also a favorable
investment climate
• Anticipating policy and regulatory changes not out of reach
• Carbon pricing should be reflected in due diligence efforts
• Weighting fundamental market risks will be key and subject to
energy-wide feedback effects (limited gas price downside, more
scarcity price downside)
• Technology surprises may be the new baseline
39. Risks for Capital in a World of Low Prices
Tim
Short
Capital Dynamics
Director, Clean Energy
Infrastructure
Jacob
Susman
EDF Renewable
Energy
Vise President, Head
of Origination
Matt
DaPrato
Wood Mackenzie Power &
Renewables
Product Suite Director
#gtm
40. Elta Kolo, Ph.D
Wood Mackenzie
Power & Renewables
Research Manager
Bridging the knowledge gap: Understanding the
implications of the Grid Edge
#gtm
43. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
1. There’s more to renewables than the supply-side
2. Grid edge M&A and VC activity is signaling
prospects for growth
3. The sensitivity of market design and regulation
triggers uncertainty
45. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
…but there’s more to renewables and distributed resources than supply
Source: CAISO, ERCOT, ISO NE, MISO, NYISO, PJM, SPP
9%
3%
14%
5%
6%
15%
48%
40%
31%
3%
20%
2%
4%
54%
0%
3%
27%
16%
24%
48%
16%
8% 2%
2%
45%
3%14%
5%
23%
10%
51%
22%
6%
21%
36%
34%
19%
6%
5%
Natural gas
Coal
Nuclear
Renewables
Oil
Hydro
Other
Dual Fuel
46. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Demand side resources clear 3% to 10% of the market
…and this is just what participates in organized wholesale markets
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables “US Wholesale DER Aggregation”
41%
35%
8%
5%
5% 4%
2%
32 GW
Manufacturing
Batteries
HVAC
Water
Heaters
Lighting
Misc.
Loads
Generator
Growth opportunities
EV charging A lot of batteries
Connected
home
Microgrids
Resource mix today
48. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
1. The current 32 GW of available “flexible”
capacity is not utilized to its full potential-tech is
ahead of markets
2. Availability of the type of flexible capacity is
sensitive market design changes
3. Third party business models for aggregation
and market access are evolving
50. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables - Grid Edge Data Hub
January
Energy
Storage
March
E-m
obility
June
Dem
and
Response
September September October
Dem
and
Response
E-m
obility
Energy Efficiency
October October November
Connected
Hom
e
E-m
obility
Dem
and
Response
Q1 2017 Q2 2017 Q3 2017 Q4 2017
Residential Retailer
December December
E-m
obility
Blockchain
October
Q1 2018
E-m
obility
Energy
Storage
January January February
Connected
Hom
e
Residential Retailer
Energy
Storage
March
Q2 2018
April
Energy
Storage
DER
Developer
May
Therm
al
Storage
May
E-m
obility
May
E-m
obility
June
E-m
obility
July
Q3 2018
March
E-m
obility
August
E-m
obility
September
Solar
August
CHP
E-m
obility
September November
Q4 2018
Energy
Storage
Dem
and
Response
DER
Developer
January December
Solar
March
Solar
InvestmentAcquisition
2017
2018
51. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Energy majors are establishing practices catering directly to C&I customers
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
2017 to 2019
2017
February
Connected
Hom
e
Residential Retailer
DER
Developer
January
DER
Developer
May
Therm
al Storage
May
2018
December
Solar
Dem
and
Response
E-m
obility
Residential Retailer
DecemberSeptember October
E-m
obility
Q1 2019
Energy Storage
FebruaryJanuary February
Dem
and
Response
InvestmentAcquisition
52. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Sample vendors pushing boundaries with resources
Sample impactful policy
Changes are taking place at an accelerated pace
EPA backup genset regulations pushed more than 20% of total resources out of the market.
To provide 20 MW supply in 2020 via residential solar plus storage to ISO NE.
Coordinating 10,000 Honda EVs to participate in the day-ahead and real-time CAISO markets with 30 MW
of flexibility.
Congressional democrats are pushing FERC to act on aggregated DERs "driven not only by state and
federal policies, but consumer interest in choosing cost-competitive technologies such as rooftop solar,
smart thermostats and customer-sited energy generation and storage."
The California energy commission mandates residential rooftop solar starting in 2020.
To utilize the flexibility of high-rise buildings in NYC to provide ancillary services to NYISO.
54. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
• NY 3 GW storage target by 2030
• NYPA commits up to $250 mil for
flexibility & $600 mil for EE
Dec
• NYISO DER
pilot projects
expected to
go live
Jun
• NYISO releases
Distributed
Energy Resource
Roadmap
Feb Feb
• FERC approves
order 841 &
separates DER
aggregation
decision
Apr
• FERC holds
technical
conference on
DER aggregation
Nov
• NYPA commits up
to $250 mil
through 2025 to
tackle EV range
anxiety in the state
20182017 2019
Feb
• Congressional
democrats push
FERC to act on
DER aggregation
Jul
• NYISO announces
procurements for
DER pilot
55. woodmac.comTrusted intelligence
Demand Response Customer, Distribution and Wholesale Energy Value Streams
Source: Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables
ENERGY CHARGES
UTILITY
PROGRAMS
DEMAND CHARGES
3rd PARTY
PROGRAMS
SYSTEM PEAK CHARGES
ISO/RTO
PROGRAMS
Customer Value
Streams
Distribution Value
Streams
CAPACITY / RA
T&D DEFERRAL
LOADING / RELIABILITY
CAPACITY
ENERGY
SPIN / NON-SPIN RESERVES
Wholesale Value
Streams
BLACKSTART
Value Drivers
• Retail electricity prices
• Retail demand charges
• Demand growth
• Wholesale capacity prices
• Wholesale energy prices
• Wholesale ancillary services prices
• Reformed markets for wholesale-
level value streams
• Emerging markets for distribution-
level value streams
DISTRIBUTION LOSSES
Representative value streams for demand side resources