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Your project’s IRR is a vanity metric. Lenders don't care about it.
I see too many C&I solar proposals with beautiful 25% IRR projections get absolutely shredded in the first round of the Investment Committee.
Why? Because a standard financial model assumes a "perfect" environment.
Lenders aren't buying your best-case scenario. They are underwriting your worst-case disaster.
They don't care about the upside; they care about the Debt Service Coverage Ratio (DSCR) during a crisis. If your project’s cash flow can’t survive a 20% spike in fuel costs and a 10% increase in CAPEX simultaneously, you haven't built an asset.
You’ve built an underwriting liability.
The Reality of Bankability
The IFC standard is crystal clear: a DSCR ≥ 1.30 is the benchmark for institutional bankability. Anything less, and you aren't building a power plant—you’re building a credit risk.
What amateur developers do: Run a static model, see a high IRR, and call it a day.
What elite teams do: Run a multi-variable sensitivity matrix to stress-test the project across critical risk factors (Fuel Volatility, Discount Horizons, and Asset Degradation).
Stop Guessing. Start Stress-Testing.
We’ve automated this entire stress-test into our API. It doesn't tell you if your project looks "pretty" on a pitch deck. It tells you if it’s bankable in the real world.
Stop pitching IRR to the board. Start pitching the DSCR stress-test.
👇 Watch how fast we stress-test a C&I model below.
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