flink.energy Library · Curated reading
What we read on bankability.
External studies, reports and papers worth your time — each with a short note on why it matters for renewables project finance. Links go to the original publishers; for our own work, see Research.
Finance & banking
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Academic paper · Competition & Change · 2026
The green banking gap
Why it matters: Based on 88 interviews, the paper identifies bankability as one of three structural reasons European banks are slow to scale green lending — evidence that the constraint sits in risk architecture, not appetite.
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Analysis · ING Think · 2026
Hydrogen stuck in the pilot phase
Why it matters: ING counts roughly 1,700 announced clean hydrogen projects against a thin record of sanctions and argues that moving pilots toward FID is the sector's central task — the clearest published framing of the pre-FID logjam.
Storage / BESS
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Journal review · Energies (Imperial College London) · 2026
Regulation, not technology, drives BESS bankability
Why it matters: Across nine jurisdictions, storage becomes investable where it can stack revenue streams and is treated as a distinct asset class — a strong empirical anchor for our grid access and market design work.
Hydrogen
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Report · International Energy Agency · 2026
Global Hydrogen Review 2026
Why it matters: The reference dataset on hydrogen production, demand, policy, trade and investment — the baseline against which any bankability claim about the sector should be checked.
About this library. We link to original publishers and do not host third-party documents. Entries are selected editorially for relevance to bankability and pre-FID work across hydrogen, storage, solar and wind; a listing is not an endorsement. Nothing here constitutes investment advice.