MEDIA BUZZ: Nelson Sam, Global Managing Director Advisory Services, Point Carbon a Thomson Reuters
Nelson Sam, the Global Managing Director Advisory Services, Point Carbon a Thomson Reuters will participate as moderator at Forum Invest ENERGY 2010, to take place on 22nd of November at The Royal Garden Hotel in London. Nelson will chair " FINANCING THE ENERGY PROJECTS.POLITICS, REGULATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR THE ENERGY MARKETS" plenary session on November 22nd.
His wide experience include successful tenures at McKinsey & Company, Ernst and Young and IRD addressing energy and climate change issues globally.
Nelson Sam has over 12 years of experience in corporate development, business consulting, transaction advisory (project financing and M&A) , stakeholder management (government and private sector), investment strategy and business analysis providing advisory services in energy and climate change across sectors (energy efficiency, renewable and offsets).
He has also advised clients both governments and private sector in the development of a low carbon strategy and in structuring of carbon finance/funds, low carbon portfolio investments.
His clients include large corporations (high energy generating, energy using companies), regional and national governments, banks, private equities & financial institution groups.
He has a doctorate degree specialising in numerical modelling weather and climate and is a life member of the Indian Meteorological Society
Few Recent Projects:
Climate Change: Business Advisory – strategic investment and solution implementation
Low carbon investment appraisal and commercial analysis (UK, Sweden, Norway, US, Mexico)
Prospectus for London – “London as a low carbon capital”: Strategic analysis of low carbon investment (policy innovation and alternative financing schemes) and robust implementation framework for selected low carbon technologies
Energy efficiency Implementation -Green ICT solutions: Corporate Implementation Strategy, Commercial and financial structures that support energy efficiency programs (world major ICT client- confidential)
Commercial feasibility, due diligence and analysis of renewable technologies (solar, geothermal, wind, biomass, CBM)
Climate change regulation and policy framework:
Analysing sectoral agreements in power sector towards carbon abatement
Critical priorities for international level agreements as opposed to national or regional level ones (for spectrum of national power market structures and technologies, Emission trading systems; carbon credits, CDM/JI /VER market opportunities; Commercial and financial viability of CCS)
Carbon Abatement Economics (cost curve): Development of cost curve and green investment strategy across energy, transport, industries (metals and mining), buildings, forestry and agriculture and waste sectors; energy and carbon trading benchmarking;
Strategic advisory for a large chemical company by carrying out a renewable energy and energy efficiency investment assessment
and option analysis for technologies such as wind, solar, biomass, energy from waste
Corporate Development Strategy: Energy Sector (Power, Oil and Gas) Investment Appraisal
Preparing the Target Vision to 2030 for the Development of the Russian electricity sector from the Perspective of International Experience (Moscow, India, US), understanding the key challenges for the Russian electricity sector (Historical Low Investment Level; low performance of generation and grid assets; low transmission capacity; uncertainty of investment cost; import-export; impact of CO2 regulation, price;)
Future regulatory governance options for Russia: market design & competition, new investments & licensing, pricing & tariff settings, system reliability, environmental implications
Entry Strategy and emerging market assessment across the value chain
India Entry Strategy for a triple A company in Energy Financing Venture: country and sector attractiveness; specific investment opportunities; risk mitigation; development of power market model to optimize the demand / supply gap.
