Renewable Energy Risks

Access the capacity and expertise you need to manage renewable energy risks

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Our approach Power your renewable portfolio with capacity and knowledge

We offer both the meaningful capacity and risk knowledge you need to manage your renewable energy portfolios and support the energy transition. At Swiss Re we are already working alongside our clients at the forefront of renewable technology, investing into the knowledge, data, and expertise our clients need to navigate this complex risk landscape.

The market We help your portfolio navigate the renewable energy transition.

The energy transition is creating a complex risk landscape for insurers and operators to navigate. New technology, climate change and large, complex projects can leave gaps in risk knowledge and underwriting data. We combine our comprehensive capacity, risk insights, local market knowledge, and digital solutions, to help you provide comprehensive multi-line insurance product offerings that support the development of new technologies.

Our offer Meaningful capacity meets industry knowledge

Our comprehensive capacity sits within our Engineering, Marine and Property teams. Via our Centre of Competence, we offer a dedicated team of specialists who will collaborate closely with our underwriting teams, providing a global coordination and knowledge centre for offshore and onshore wind and solar risks. This approach helps our clients efficiently arrange capacity through our different and wide-ranging lines of business, while maintaining existing local underwriting relationships.

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Onshore

Our Engineering team provides onshore facultative and treaty construction coverage, while our property team offers onshore operational coverage.

Offshore

Our Engineering team provides offshore facultative and treaty construction coverage, while our Marine team provides treaty offshore construction and offshore operational coverage.

Solar

Our Engineering team provides solar panel facultative and treaty construction coverage.

Swiss Re’s Lack of Solar Irradiation Insurance offers a tailor-made, innovative mechanism to manage unpredictable earnings fluctuation and associated financial distress due to variations in solar irradiation.

Read more about our protection against lack of solar irradiation.

Wind Resource Volatility

Wind farm operators are at the mercy of fluctuating winds. To protect against loss of income, Swiss Re has developed index-triggered insurance for Wind Resource Volatility.

Read more about our protection against Wind Resource Volatility.

Battery Energy Storage Systems

The increasing penetration of renewables demands more flexibility of the power grid in matching supply and demand.

Read more about our battery energy storage systems.

Our Centre of Competence Our Centre of Competence for Renewable Energy

Leveraging our 160 years of risk knowledge, local market expertise, and long-standing contribution to industry best practice (such as the Solar Code of Practice), the Centre of Competence provides the market with the expertise to navigate a complex landscape.​ We are going to expand to other technologies, including Battery Energy Storage Systems and biomass.

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  • Leverage 160 years of risk expertise

    By collaborating closely with the Centre of Competence, our underwriters, clients and brokers, now have even more expertise at their fingertips.​

  • Efficient risk placement from breaking ground to decommissioning

    Our Centre of Competence acts as a coordination hub so you can efficiently arrange capacity through our lines of business.​

  • Local teams, global networks

    Our Centre of Competence is a coordination and expertise team, working with your existing underwriting partners. ​

Risk Knowledge

Access reports and risk insights that help you manage the mix of risks that accompany renewable energy projects.

E-fuels – the future of energy?

We look at key questions for insurers on Power-to-X and E-fuels, and whether they could be the future of energy.

Unlocking the oceans

 11GW of floating offshore wind capacity could be installed by 2030, but what are the challenges for insurance portfolios?

Battery energy storage systems

See how increasing penetration of renewables demands more flexibility of the power grid in matching supply and demand, the risks of BESS and the technologies to monitor.

Navigating an emerging risk landscape together

New technology, climate change and larger more complex projects can leave gaps in risk knowledge and underwriting data. We've got the meaningful reinsurance capacity and risk insights to help you take on the mix of risks that accompany renewable energy projects.

Sign up for renewable energy reinsurance updates about Stay up to date with our Centre of Competence for Renewable Energy

Actionable insights to steer your portfolio

As an initiator and co-founder of the European Wind Turbine Committee established in 2011, we were instrumental in developing the Offshore Code of Practice (OCoP) a best-practice guide for risk management in the sector. The Solar Panel Code of Practice (SPCoP), an initiative by Swiss Re and PV research institutions that helps producers, buyers, investors, banks and insurers better assess the long-term quality and reliability of solar panels in the context of insurance.

Customer stories Reinsuring the World's Largest Integrated Solar and Battery Storage Facility in the Philippines

As of 2024, we have partnered with Terra Solar Philippines, Inc. (TSPI)1 to co-lead the reinsurance of the world's largest integrated solar photovoltaic and battery energy storage system (BESS) facility. Expected to power 2.4 million Philippine households, the project aims to avoid 4.3 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually once completed.

Discover about Reinsuring the World's Largest Integrated Solar and Battery Storage Facility in the Philippines

Customer stories Expanding South Korea’s offshore wind capacity

South Korea has historically been dependent on cheap fossil fuel imports to meet its energy needs, with solar energy making up only 6.5% of its energy mix. In an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance energy security, the South Korean government set a target to generate 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030. A key element of this plan is the construction of offshore wind farms (OWFs). As the lead reinsurer for the construction of three of these OWF projects, Swiss Re has been supporting the development of renewable energy in Korea. Once the final construction phase is completed in 2025, these projects will have a capacity of approximately 190MW.

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