Power & Renewable Energy
Power & Renewable Energy Coverage
Tradewinds is a trusted insurance advisor to the power and energy sector, providing tailored risk solutions, claims support, and strategic insurance programme design. With extensive industry expertise, we have developed comprehensive Property and Liability Insurance Programmes for some of Malaysia’s largest power generation assets and successfully managed multimillion-dollar claims.
Our team also helps clients strengthen their understanding of insurance coverage through practical insights and real-world claims experience.
We deliver tailored insurance solutions, helping conventional and renewable power producers, as well as energy infrastructure operators, manage the full spectrum of operational and contractual risks.
Protecting the baseload that keeps the grid alive.
Thermal IPPs carry some of the highest single-site values in the power sector, and one forced outage can wipe out capacity payments for months. We design programmes around the realities of your PPA, your OEM's long-term service agreement and your financiers' insurance covenants, so that a gas turbine failure or boiler tube leak becomes a managed event rather than a balance-sheet crisis.
HOW WE HELP
- Your income, protected
If a breakdown stops the plant, your lost revenue is covered during repairs. - Insurance that fits your contracts
Cover designed to meet what your power buyer, lenders and equipment suppliers expect. - Built for big power stations
We place high-value plants with strong local and international insurers.
Utility-scale sunlight, bankable from day one.
Solar farms look simple from the air, but on the ground they face flood and lightning, cable theft, inverter failures, module defects and, increasingly, battery storage fire risk. From LSS bid submission through commercial operation, we align cover with regulatory and financier requirements, secure capacity for hybrid LSS + BESS configurations and keep revenue protected when the plant is down.
HOW WE HELP
- From bid to switch-on
We help you price insurance at bid stage and stay covered through construction. - Weather and theft covered
Protection against floods, lightning storms and theft on large, open sites. - Ready for battery storage
Cover for solar farms paired with battery storage, a fast-growing part of the market.
Turning waste into power, and risk into certainty.
A waste-to-energy plant combines the fire load of a full waste bunker with high-temperature combustion, boilers and flue-gas treatment, a profile many insurers approach with caution. We take your plant to specialist markets with the engineering detail they need, negotiate terms that credit your fire protection investment, and address the liability exposures that come with serving local communities.
HOW WE HELP
- Fair terms for a high-fire risk
We show insurers the safety measures you have invested in, so you are rated fairly. - The right insurers
Not every insurer takes on waste-to-energy. We know the ones that do. - Community and environment
Cover for pollution and claims from the communities around your plant.
Harnessing rivers, safeguarding every turbine.
From mini hydro run-of-river schemes to larger dams, hydro projects are built in remote, steep and rain-soaked terrain where tunnelling, slope failure and flash floods are real construction risks, and where a damaged turbine can mean months of lead time. We structure cover that respects the geology, the civil works and the electromechanical plant, from early site works through decades of operation.
HOW WE HELP
- Built for tough terrain
Cover for the risks of building in remote, hilly sites: landslides, flash floods and tunnelling. - Protected through long repairs
Turbine repairs can take months. Your income is protected while you wait. - Covered from start to finish
One continuous programme from construction through decades of operation.
Capturing methane, protecting returns.
Biogas plants, many of them built on palm oil mill effluent, turn a waste stream into clean power and carbon value. They also carry distinct risks: methane fire and explosion, digester and membrane damage, and gas engine breakdowns that halt feed-in tariff revenue. We place programmes suited to these compact but technical assets, and can bundle multiple mills into one portfolio for broader cover.
HOW WE HELP
- Gas risks covered
Protection against the fire and explosion risks that come with handling biogas. - Keeping your income flowing
If an engine breaks down, the electricity income you lose is covered. - One plan for many mills
Insure several plants under one programme for simpler admin and better value.
