Challenges

Across the renewable energy industry, companies that own and operate projects often face significant inefficiencies in cash distribution processes. Many organizations still rely on manual, error-prone calculations that need to be recreated every quarter, which can lead to inconsistent results and timing delays. These outdated approaches introduce risk around member distributions, reserve funding, and compliance with debt covenants, which makes the process unreliable.

Solution

To address this challenge, automated cash waterfall models have become essential. These solutions ingest actuals from an export from an accounting system and apply robust logic and validation checks to increase precision. They calculate distributions to members, manage the funding and release of reserves, account for future expense withholdings, and verify debt covenant requirements, all within a simple Excel interface. By eliminating manual effort and generating reports quickly, these models deliver accurate, repeatable outputs and promote investor-grade transparency, which is critical for maintaining trust and scaling operations.

Target Business Breakthroughs

Automation in cash waterfall processes enables renewable energy companies to:

• Better ensure accuracy and consistency by replacing manual calculations with robust, validated logic.
• Increase speed by automating the import of actuals data with robust calculations. 
• Reduce risk and improve reliability through standardized, repeatable processes.
• Enhance transparency, providing investor-grade reporting and confidence.
• Unlock financial opportunities by identifying discrepancies and optimizing distributions.

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