The peculiarities of these investments are:
1. large outlay
2. very long gestation gap 7-8 years
3. large number of contractual tie-ups that complicate the project structures
4. very long life of cash inflows like 60-70 years
These projects once online are like fixed deposits, cash flows keep coming if, good project management exists. And thus provides a goldmine opportunity for young investors to put long term savings for building up a corpus over a period of time say 15-20 years and above.
Currently schemes available are:
- Reliance Diversified Power(Apr 2004)
- UTI Energy(Jun 1999)
- Sundaram BNP Paribas Select Thematic Energy Opportunities(Dec 2007)
- Escorts Energy((Sept 2008)
- DSP BR World Energy(July 2009)
- DSP BR Natural resources & New Energy(March 2008)
- ICICI Prudential Power(Octo 2001)