Between 20 its debt-to-earnings ratio ballooned. Abengoa built €28 billion-worth of projects between 20, including big water-desalination plants. Its debt-propelled growth took place under the auspices of the founding Benjumea family, which has strong political connections. Like SunEdison, Abengoa can only blame itself for its troubles. Hawaiian Electric, a utility that agreed to buy power from SunEdison, is trying to cancel the contracts because of the seller’s failure to meet financing deadlines, amid fears the projects could be drawn into bankruptcy proceedings. The uncertainty is affecting its business activities. On March 30th both yieldcos announced his resignation. SunEdison had also upset TerraForm shareholders by saying Brian Wuebbels, its embattled chief financial officer, would become chief executive of the yieldcos, further subordinating their boards to the parent company. “It’s like a gigantic layer cake of debt,” says Mr Jones. That may explain the SEC’s interest, which exacerbates the concern of creditors.
The company has twice since delayed filing an annual financial statement and admitted to “material weaknesses in its internal controls over financial reporting”.
In the autumn analysts at CreditSights drew attention to murky debt disclosures, which further battered confidence in SunEdison. It hoped to use TerraForm Power to buy Vivint assets, but other TerraForm investors objected that the yieldco was becoming a dumping ground for SunEdison’s expensive acquisitions. SunEdison’s problems began last summer with a $2.2 billion merger agreement with Vivint Solar, a developer of rooftop solar controlled by Blackstone, a private-equity group. Analysts say its combination of acquisitive hubris, operational failures, murky financials and shoddy corporate governance cast a shadow over the clean-tech industry, though many firms are far more prudently managed. In the middle of last year its bosses said its shares were substantially undervalued at $32. SunEdison has become particularly erratic. “They assumed there would always be access to capital markets,” he says. A plunge in oil prices and higher risk premiums for energy firms made it harder for yieldcos to raise money, which violated their promise to shareholders not only to issue steady payouts but also to increase returns. Each raised over $500m.īut they were blinded by their own success, says Greg Jones of CreditSights, a financial-research firm. Since 2014 the biggest such share sales in America were by SunEdison’s yieldcos, TerraForm Power and TerraForm Global, and by the eponymous Abengoa Yield. They then sold the assets to publicly listed and tax-efficient offshoots, known as “yieldcos”, that funded themselves by issuing shares.
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