Buy, build or wait? Evaluating power assets in a changing market

Use market intelligence and economic analysis to compare acquisition and development opportunities across renewable energy and data center power markets.

Renewable and data center power markets are consolidating quickly, while interconnection delays, powered-land premiums and changing tax-credit policies are reshaping asset value. For developers, the question is becoming more complex: Is it better to acquire operating capacity, buy a development-stage asset or build new generation from the ground up?

In this webinar, Enverus Intelligence® Research and Enverus experts will walk through a practical due diligence workflow for screening power assets and running economic sensitivities on the opportunities that matter most. Using recent market activity and transaction examples, we’ll show how developers can compare existing assets with new-build gas and renewable projects, assess risk-adjusted returns and make faster investment decisions.

What you’ll learn

• Identify the main drivers of developer risk in today’s renewable and data center power markets, including interconnection delays, powered-land value dynamics and tax-credit policy changes.
• Interpret recent transactions and signals of how the market is pricing operating and development-stage generation assets.
• Apply a buy-versus-build framework to compare operating capacity, development-stage assets and new gas or renewable projects.
• Screen portfolios and individual assets to quickly identify opportunities worth deeper review.
• Run economic sensitivities on assets of interest to understand how changes in costs, timing, market conditions and project assumptions affect returns.

Who should attend

• Renewable energy developers and investment teams who need to compare operating, development-stage and new-build opportunities using consistent economic assumptions.
• Data center developers evaluating power strategies, including the tradeoffs between acquiring existing capacity and developing new gas or renewable generation.
• M&A and corporate development teams looking to screen portfolios, prioritize assets for deeper diligence and identify risks before advancing an acquisition.
• Infrastructure investors and asset managers assessing how timing, costs, market conditions and project assumptions affect risk-adjusted returns.
• Strategy, finance and development leaders who want a faster, more repeatable workflow for evaluating buy-versus-build decisions.