Make your feedstock bankable. Win more projects.
Upgrade your BDO Zone to an Insurable BDO Zone. Every project that looks at your region gets a capped feedstock cost, insurable supply it can reserve, and policy terms within 45 days of reserving. Lenders stop asking the feedstock question. You start closing.
Already rated? Find your region on the BDO Zone ratings map.
More projects. Faster closes.
A capped feedstock cost, published
Every developer sees the Insured Price Cap for your Zone before they visit. The number their lender fears most is already answered.
Supply they can reserve in their name
Serious prospects hold a tranche of your insurable supply. A reservation is a dated commitment to your county, visible to competitors.
Underwriting that starts at the finish line
Your rating becomes the regional baseline. A project that reserves supply gets a Non-Binding Indication of policy terms from New Energy Risk within 45 days.
Another tool in the toolbox. One no competing region has.
A BDO Zone rating puts you on the map. The Insurable designation puts you on the shortlist.
What your region gets
- ‘AA’ Insurable BDO Zone Certificate
- A public register of insurable, reserved and open supply of feedstock
- A bankable feedstock supply to put in front of developers and lenders
What a project gets
- Feedstock cost capped for the policy term, within a published range
- A Certificate of Insurance Reservation it can hand to lenders
- Non-Binding Indication of terms in 45 days
See exactly what your Zone receives.
Two sample certificates, marked as samples. Figures are illustrative.
Rated this year. Insurable this quarter.
Four steps from rating to designation. We run the analysis; New Energy Risk reviews it; your Zone gets its certificate.
- 1
Tell us about your region
Two minutes. Region, contact, and whether you already hold a BDO Zone rating.
Today - 2
We run the price-cap analysis
IBRA runs the price-cap analysis on your rated supply and sets the Insured Price Cap range.
Weeks 1–4 - 3
New Energy Risk confirms eligibility
Your Zone is pre-screened for FSI underwriting. An Eligibility Letter is issued.
Weeks 4–8 - 4
Your Zone is designated Insurable
Certificate, Schedule A and register go live. Projects start reserving supply.
Designation
What economic developers ask before they upgrade.
A biomass supply region that has been rated under the BDO Zone Standards Framework and prequalified for Feedstock Supply Insurance (FSI). The rating says the feedstock is there. The designation says its cost can be capped by insurance.
Yes. The Insurable designation is an upgrade to a rating. If you don’t have one, we start there and the two can run together.
A fixed fee for the upgrade, paid once by the economic development organization. Projects pay their own reservation fee, New Energy Risk’s underwriting fees and their policy premium. The first Insurable BDO Zone received the upgrade at no cost. If you want to talk cost for your region, contact us using the form or the phone number on this page.
The maximum cost a plant will ever pay for the delivered feedstock. In other words, the delivered cost of biomass above which the policy pays. It is published for your Zone as a range with a lower and an upper bound, and a project’s own cap is set inside that range at underwriting.
No. The designation and its certificates are not policies, offers of insurance or supply agreements. Every policy is subject to full underwriting of the specific project by New Energy Risk and its capacity partners.
Get your region prequalified
Tell us about your region and we’ll call you back within one business day with what the upgrade would involve.
Rather talk it through first? Call Ryan Magwood, Head of Business Development, BDO Zone Initiative. You’ll get a person, not a ticket number.
No commitment. We’ll tell you what the upgrade involves for your region and what it costs.
Insurable BDO Zones·International Biomass Rating Agency (IBRA)·Feedstock Supply Insurance structured and placed by New Energy Risk
Not an offer of insurance. All policies subject to project underwriting.·Brokers