Types of Risks in the Process of Investing in Renewable Electric Energy Sources

Abstract

The development of renewable power engineering is inevitable. Administrative, financial, political, social, environmental or technical/technological barriers are and must be minimized. They determine the scale of risk borne by the investor. Risk due to the special character of investments is high and is intensified by difficulties associated with the growing liberalization and deregulation of the power market. In the process of investing in RES, several phases are enumerated. Each of them is divided into stages, with hazards visible in them. Types of the renewable energy sources, despite differences in their obtaining and processing into usable energy, are characterized by many common elements as to the kinds of risk. The article presents an attempt to specify them and assign them a rank importance for the project.