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Episode: OIES Podcast – From Certainty to Volatility Beyond the Contract: Managing Risks and Opportunities for Renewable Assets with expiring CfD Support
Description: In this latest OIES podcast from the Energy Transition Programme, Dimitra Apostolopoulou talks to Managing Director of Energy Management, Markets and Risk at Reventus Power, Naz Osmancik, about his latest paper titled "From Certainty to Volatility Beyond the Contract: Managing Risks and Opportunities for Renewable Assets with expiring CfD Support". This podcast explores the shifting risk landscape for renewable energy projects as they move beyond the stability of government-backed Contracts for Difference (CfDs). We discuss how the expiry of CfDs exposes investors to wholesale price volatility, uncertain dispatch, and long-term market unpredictability—factors that can sharply erode equity returns, es...