New Energy Risk offers performance insurance solutions that enable our clients to advance breakthrough technologies addressing global challenges
Together with our re/insurance allies, we transfer specific and carefully calibrated technology and financial risks to the insurance markets. This is the most effective way to ensure our clients get the financial and customer support they need to accelerate their innovations
$2B
To date, our clients have unlocked over $2 billion for the development of new and renewable clean energy technologies and other imperative projects
Our typical client lacks extensive long-term performance data at a commercial scale
A lack of data hinders revolutionary technologies from securing financing, going to market, and achieving mass customer adoption. Our proprietary, technoeconomic modeling assesses the uncertainty around technology performance and reliability—as well as the relevant economics—by outlining realistic outcomes of a project or technology. With our insurance solutions, our clients can:
Access Efficient Capital
We design insurance solutions that ultimately mitigate risk for capital providers, which reduces the need for high-interest debt; with better financing terms for our clients, the overall cost of capital decreases and profits increase
Accelerate Time to Market
We provide The Power of Certainty™ that deals will close, and close faster, when financiers and/or customers are supported by our performance insurance solutions
Achieve Commercial Scale
We design insurance solutions that backstop technology warranties, even for first-of-a-kind projects, so that our clients can instead focus on commercialization and scaling their operations
Our services can help you achieve your goals with The Power of Certainty™
Case Study Success Stories
Bloom Energy
Fulcrum BioEnergy
Brightmark
Recent Press
New Energy Risk Helps Bring Fuel Cells to New York City
The insurance solution developed by NER was a key component of the financing for fuel cells totaling 12 MW with Daroga Power LLC.
CEO Interviewed by AXA XL for Fast Fast Forward
Learn more about “the future of [our] custom technology risk solutions, and the crucial gap [we] fill in the marketplace,” plus a peek under the hood of our model and how diversity improves our team performance.
NER in The Economist
New Energy Risk is pleased to have been cited by The Economist in print and online for the article "Greenbacks for greenery."
New Energy Risk Helps Bring Fuel Cells to South Korea
New Energy Risk has helped facilitate the purchase and financing of fuel cells in South Korea. The insurance solution provided by NER is a key component of the project's financing and execution strategy.
CEO Interviewed by Norton Rose Fulbright
NER CEO Tom Dickson interview with Todd Alexander, Norton Rose Fulbright, on enabling project finance for new technologies through insurance.
NER Releases its 2019 Sustainability Report
We are proud of our clients, who are committed to solving some of the world's most pressing environmental issues. View our annual report for details.
AXA Publishes its 2020 Climate Report
Every year since 2015, NER-affiliate AXA publishes a Climate Report which describes its current climate strategy and new developments. Find NER on page 45.
Lloyd’s Features NER in Report: Renewable Energy Risk and Reward- Risks and Technologies
New Energy Risk (“NER”), a California-based MGU, works with pioneers in the new-energy arena to support technology breakthroughs, advancing the critical projects needed to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy.
New Energy Risk, SHINE Medical Technologies Partner on Innovative Insurance Solution That Supports Financing of One-of-a-Kind Nuclear Medicine Facility
NER has provided SHINE Medical Technologies, a development-stage company working to become the world's leading producer of medical isotopes, with an innovative performance insurance program for SHINE's groundbreaking production facility.
Women in Insurance Leadership 2019
“I see the insurance industry continuing to focus on sustainability and closing the protection gap, making a real difference in the global economy in a meaningful way.”
Client Testimonials
“If you have innovative technology but you’re having trouble convincing financers to support you, New Energy Risk is the partner you need to bridge that gap. They have the engineering prowess to understand what you’re trying to do and the translational skills to pull the financial implications from the technical risk—and they’re able to do it better than anyone else I know.”
Jim McDermott, Founder & Executive Chairman, Fulcrum BioEnergy
“With New Energy Risk’s help, we were able to close financing and reduce the cost of our capital, which allowed us to deliver a more competitively priced product to our end users. They help you cross the chasm. They help you go from early-stage development to mainstream by doing extremely thorough technical risk assessment and managing risks others do not have the quantitative ability to model and understand.”
Scott Reynolds, Managing Director, Bloom Energy
“New Energy Risk’s ability to understand our proprietary technology and to tailor their technology insurance solution on a timely basis to meet key financing needs was integral to the ultimate success of [our] project financing.”
Scott Healy, SVP & Chief Financial Officer, Brightmark