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Energy and utility risk financing: concentrated assets and operational liability

Energy companies often hold value in a few large assets, so one outage or event can dominate results. Regulated utilities and independent operators also answer to different authorities, which changes the questions.

Asset, interruption and liability risks for energy companies and utilities, and the specialists who finance them.

Common risks and risk-financing considerations in Energy & Utilities

  • Asset concentration and interruption — Plants, pipelines and grids concentrate value, and an outage can cause both property loss and lost revenue. Test retained risk against those single-site scenarios.
  • Operational and environmental liability — Operations can create third-party and environmental exposures with their own legal regimes. Separate counsel is often needed for the regulatory side.
  • Regulated utilities versus independent operators — Rate-regulated utilities, which report to state commissions and in some activities to FERC, may face cost-recovery questions that independent operators do not. Start from the entity's regulatory position.
  • Questions for specialists — Ask which asset types a provider has worked with and how it models large single losses. Single-parent captives and structured programs are among the options to discuss.

Each card shows why that provider is relevant to Energy & Utilities, from what the provider has recorded against this industry.

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