Project Financing Electricity Projects with Senior Debt
This book is a guide to project financing, primarily used to fund infrastructure projects. While it focuses on electricity projects, its insights can be applied across various sectors. It employs a P&L statement as a framework for approaching deals, with CFADS at its core. It introduces fundamental building blocks to ensure CFADS remains predictable, mechanisms to safeguard its predictability, warning signals for material deviations, and a system of incentives and penalties to manage potential disruptions—all within the structure of a P&L statement.
In summary, this is a practitioners’ guide in every sense. It sets minimum advisory standards expected by lenders, defines risk-informed contractual clauses that enable commercially bankable agreements, and provides calculations and assumptions necessary for determining debt size—irrespective of borrower structure or lending arrangements.
Yandisa Nongena has two engineering degrees, diploma in investment management, diploma in drafting and interpretation of contracts and MSc in Finance and Finance Law, giving Yandisa Nongena diverse and relevant academic foundation for project finance.
Yandisa Nongena was a project finance banker from 2004 to mid-2023 and on borrower side from mid-2023 to early 2025, putting Yandisa Nongena at the centre of closing all deals Yandisa Nongena worked on. Yandisa Nongena rose from an analyst building financial models through the various levels doing each and every workstream along the way, to leading or co-leading deals.









