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Energy Transition: Enabling Singapore Small and Medium Enterprises to Go Solar

Weina Zhang, Vigilia Ang, Yannis Yuan

Product #:W34499
Supplier:Ivey/NUS
Discipline:Finance, Sustainability
Setting:Singapore, 2023
Details:Case (PDF) • 16 pages • 2024-02-20 (Rev: 2024-02-21)

Subjects:

Leadership and managing peopleFinance and investingManagement

Industries:

Fabrication and manufacturing

Geography:

AsiaSingapore
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Green Consultant, a Singapore-based environmental consulting firm, had worked with several financial institutions before 2023 and was aware that many were interested in expanding their loan portfolios to include more environmentally inclined clients. In January 2023, one such client, a Singapore-based small and medium enterprise (SME) named Chang & Lee Manufacturing (CLM), approached Green Consultant to prepare a business proposal on how the SME could transition to solar energy. A green finance analyst at Green Consultant had one month to deliver a proposal to CLM. He had to consider the type of solar business model, the financing option, and the CLM stakeholders to engage, alongside CLM’s operational and financial conditions, to recommend the most economically feasible solar solution for CLM.

Learning Objectives

This case could be used in advanced undergraduate courses or graduate courses on sustainable investment, green investment, corporate finance, or impact valuation. It presented an opportunity for students to do the following:
  • Compare the major business models for solar energy adoption and quantitatively evaluate the benefits and costs of each model.
  • Understand the financing options for solar energy adoption in Singapore.
  • Apply financial valuation models to solar energy projects.
  • Set up a general decision tree for solar energy adoption.
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