Structured trade credit
Collaborating with commodity producers and traders, exporters, refiners, marketers, and specialty traders, we insure project structures and related transactions exposed to trade credit risk, commodity delivery risk, and political risk.
- Safeguarding shipped assets
- Customized coverage structures
Safeguarding shipped assets
We advise and place insurances for asset-based shippers in the maritime, aviation, rail, and trucking sectors seeking to work through the energy transition. We help our clients mitigate emerging liability risks, evaluate access to tax credit investments and bind associated insurances.
Credit and non-payment risk
Collaborating with producers, refiners, exporters, and traders of commodity products, we mitigate the risk of non-delivery or non-payment for project owners and lenders in structured export and supply chain financings under a trade agreement.
- Customized coverage structures
Customized coverage structures
- Specialty programs for producers, refiners, exporters, and traders
- Property and casualty coverage for construction and operations across capital-intensive projects
Surety
Powerline places surety bonds to meet contract and regulatory requirements, specializing in complex credits and challenging bond forms across energy, construction, and shipbuilding. We structure creative solutions that secure capacity without overburdening clients’ balance sheets.
- Creating capacity in a constrained surety market
- Customized coverage structures
Creating capacity in a constrained surety market
Evolving regulations have increased pressure on renewable energy obligors, contributing to bankruptcies and a tighter surety market. Underwriters are reducing capacity, raising pricing, and demanding stronger indemnity, liquidity, and collateral. These conditions require disciplined credit underwriting and deal-specific structuring informed by current market dynamics.
Generation outage
Generation outage insurance protects energy producers—baseload thermal, peakers, CHP, hydro, wind, solar, and battery storage—against losses resulting from unplanned shutdowns caused by covered physical damage or equipment breakdown. Coverage can include lost gross margin and continuing fixed costs, extra expense to expedite repairs, and, where defined in the policy, lost capacity or ancillary services revenue.
- Cash flow protection for power assets
- Coverage structures
Cash flow protection for power assets
Generation outage coverage is critical for power producers, as a forced outage can erase months of margin while fixed costs and debt service continue. It stabilizes cash flow during repair and testing, supports covenant compliance, and protects returns for owners and lenders. By funding expedited repairs, it reduces downtime and helps preserve dispatch position, contract performance, and market credibility.
