If you develop, advise on or finance utility-scale solar PV projects, you know the problem: every new deal requires rebuilding the same financial model — recalibrating CAPEX assumptions, hunting for market prices, restructuring the debt schedule, explaining your methodology to a lender or partner. It takes days. Sometimes weeks. And the risk of a formula error is always there.

This model eliminates that problem.

Open it, select your country and scenario, enter your project size and revenue allocation — and every output updates automatically. Project IRR, Equity IRR, NPV, payback. A full 20-year cash flow with panel degradation, OPEX escalation and a complete debt schedule. Ready to present, ready to share, ready to defend.

What makes it different from a generic DCF template

The assumptions are already calibrated for your market. 8 countries — Italy, Spain, UK, Germany, USA, France, Australia, Nordic — each with Conservative, Base and Aggressive scenarios built from BNEF H2 2025, SolarPower Europe 2025, Aurora Energy Research and national regulatory sources. You are not starting from a blank sheet and guessing at capacity factors. You are starting from a credible, sourced baseline and adjusting from there.

The revenue engine reflects how projects actually get financed. PPA, Merchant, Incentive/FiT and Ancillary streams are each configurable independently, with country-specific benchmark allocations pre-loaded. Active streams and benchmark splits differ by country — because they differ in reality.

Two producibility modes are available. If you have a P50 yield study, feed it in directly in MWh/MWp. If you are at screening stage, the CF-based mode gives you a calibrated estimate immediately.

The optional BESS module lets you evaluate co-located battery storage with a single toggle. BESS CAPEX, OPEX, arbitrage and ancillary revenues load automatically by country and scenario, giving you a fully integrated PV+BESS financial picture without building a second model.

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