How to Manage Rising Insurance Costs for your Solar Asset

Christian is the Managing Partner of Ernst Burghardt Assekuranzmakler GmbH. He is specialized in insuring international infrastructure & renewable energy projects in order to obtain the financing commitment from a bank or investor. As a global independent insurance broker, he has more than 20 years of experience, industry-specific expertise and detailed knowledge of the world's insurance markets. His career began at AON plc, London - the world's largest industrial insurance broker. Before joining Ernst Burghardt Assekuranzmakler GmbH, he was Managing Director of one of Europe's leading insurance brokers for renewable energy. His extensive insurance expertise is based on insuring international renewable energy projects of more than 5 GW capacity, which he accompanies during the development, construction & operation phases in more than 15 countries worldwide - mainly in the solar and onshore & offshore wind sectors. Moreover, he has been active as an official Lenders Insurance Advisor for banks, investors & project developers with large, international project portfolios for over 10 years. Christian has a university degree in Business Administration, a qualification as an international industrial insurance broker and holds a university certificate as an expert in offshore wind energy.

Niklas Will, CFA is Head of Operations Solar Central Europe at Encavis AG since 2020. In total Niklas has seven years of experience in the renewable energy industry. In his role he is responsible for the Asset Management of a 500 MWp portfolio of operational ground mounted solar assets. The portfolio comprises both subsidy-based and non-subsidy-based assets in the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden. In the management of the 50 companies, his focus is on operational excellence for each SPV. Before he moved into the renewables sector Niklas gained substantial experience in the auditing sector in Germany for four years incl. a secondment at Cooper Parry in the UK. Niklas holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Hamburg School of Business Administration (HSBA) in which he specialized in finance. His profound interest in finance led Niklas to pursue the CFA Charter, which he was awarded in 2022. Since then, he is actively involved in the CFA Society Germany.

After gaining Diploma degrees in Economics and in Actuarial Mathematics at the Universidad Complutense (Madrid), José Joaquín started his project and structured finance career in the year 2000 working for the HypoVereinsbank (Unicredit Group) at their headquarters in Germany and heading their branch in Spain. Active in lending, arranging and financial advisory for 10 years, he covered projects both, in the infrastructure and in the renewable energy sectors, gaining a solid knowledge on structured financing. In 2010 José Joaquín moved from the lender to the borrower side, focusing his activities on the photovoltaic sector, creating and leading structure finance and M&A teams at three relevant international players of the sector, out of Madrid and Berlin, acting globally. The responsibilities of these teams were of a multidisciplinary nature, ranging from non-recourse financing, structured financing and M&A process to PPA origination and negotiation. José Joaquín Muñoz Osuna joined Capcora in November 2023 to reinforce the company’s debt and M&A division, heading the team in Hamburg.