• Covers all functional areas of project management commercial viability, technical feasibility, managerial competence and organizational set-up, financial soundness, economic analysis, environmental safety/sustainability and social cost benefit analysis.
• Case studies involving practices of stakeholders of renewable energy sector lends coherence to all the aspects and ensures continuity of discussion from one topic to another.
• Financial soundness of projects is explained in thorough detail. Preparation of projected operating statement and decision drivers like cash flow statement, break-even analysis, ICR, DSCR, payback period discounted cash flow techniques like discounted payback, IRR, NPV and profitability index are discussed in detail. Also explains various sources of financing projects both foreign and domestic.
• Tools and techniques from operations management like PERT/CPM methods, Decision Tree analysis, Sensitivity analysis, Quality management, Risk management, Gantt Chart and so on during project operations & maintenance have been covered appropriately.
• The policies of state/central governments, rules and regulations, accounting standards, legal aspects and engineering considerations have been weaved nicely. International practices are referred too.
• Includes about 70 worked-out problems, more than 150 tables, 31 charts and 20 boxed exhibits.