Individual report
Assessment Description.
PART A (20 marks)
The report should begin with a short executive summary and conclude with several, short general recommendations. The content you include in the report should link the project management principles detailed below with the practices of the renewable energy company you have been allocated.
The topics on which students need to make recommendations in their report include:
i) Project selection – How should the company you select determine what projects to undertake and what ones to avoid? What tools, measures, and practices are available to project analysts in this industry?
ii) Cost management – What is the role of project cost management for your chosen company? Why is it important? What strategies or approaches should the company you have chosen adopt in order to effectively manage project costs?
iii) Funding – What funding measures or options are generally available to assist companies like the one you have chosen to fund proposed new projects? The report should include reference to any implications associated with different funding types or models.
iv) Implementation and winding up – Are there any particular issues associated with commencing a project that your company must consider? Why are they important? Who do they impact or affect? What happens when the project finishes? How are projects wound up? Do they just end or are there resource or infrastructure considerations? Are there environmental issues associated with the end of a project?
Where possible, students should relate each section back to the renewable energy company they have been allocated. The executive summary should bring together general recommendations for the student’s chosen company relating to i)-iv).
Students should provide between 100-200 words per topic, together with approximately 200 words in total for the executive summary and final recommendations.
PART B (20 marks)
Consider the following three sources and answer the following questions directly. You do not need to write a lot for each question and for some you will need to use excel calculations. Submit you excel spreadsheet together with your report in the separate submission inbox on the assessment table.
Source 1: Tilt Renewables Snowtown North Solar Energy Farm
https://www.tiltrenewables.com/assets-and-projects/Snowtown-North-Solar-Energy-Farm/
Source 2: Tilt Renewables (TLT.NZ) Yahoo Finance
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/quote/TLT.NZ/
Source 3: Tilt Renewables Financials
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/quote/TLT.NZ/financials?p=TLT.NZ
You have been employed as a project manager by Tilt Renewables and asked to evaluate a solar farm project at Snowtown run by Tilt Energy (See Source 1).
You have been asked to evaluate whether Tilt Renewables should undertake the Snowtown North Solar Energy Farm based on the above sources. Assume this project has not yet been approved.
• Assume this is a twenty-five-year project.
• Consult source 1 for the estimated initial outlay/investment today (year 0)
• The investment will be depreciated on a straight-line basis over twenty five years to 0 book value. It is estimated that the solar farm can be sold at the end of year 25 for $10 million.
• The solar farm will sell $10,000,000 worth of electricity each year into the grid from year 1-25
• Operating expenses for 25 years are $5 per solar panel per year (see number of solar panels from Source 1)
• The tax rate is 30%. All cash flows are annual and are received at the end of the year. The discount rate is 10%.
a) Based on the above information calculate the FCFs of the project. (10 marks)
b) Calculate the NPV for the solar farm. Should Tilt Renewables undertake this project? (5 marks)
c) Does the NPV take into account the CO2 emission reductions that the project will lead to (See Source 1)? Should it take this into account? Why or why not? (2 marks)
d) What is the debt to equity ratio in 2019 of Tilt Renewables according to source 3? How does this compare to other utility companies? What is the current share price according to Source 2 and when were shares first issued? (3 marks)
Solution
Part A
Project selection
Projects undertaken by business organizations come with the potential for gains or losses for the entities in question. In this respect, it becomes imperative to conduct an effective project selection process with caution directed towards potential proceeds or losses. Among the primary business practices that Infigenergy embraces in the project, the selection is the consideration of business priority. Project leaders have to identify real gaps and needs attached to their enterprises before sponsoring the undertakings in question (Nonino 2017). Projects that come with misplaced business priorities are undesirable for an entity because they come with financial and other resources constraints without significant returns to the company.
Business organizations are supposed to look into customer impacts that the projects in question are likely to introduce. Desirable projects are the ones that enhance the perception of customers regarding the quality of the entities’ products and services (Nonino 2017)………………………………..To access the rest of the solution (including excel sheet calculations) for $15, please click on the purchase button.
