Expanding residual value intelligence where decisions carry risk

Residual value risk spans asset classes wherever assets age, transition, or exit service under financial, regulatory, or operational pressure.

Buckstop’s index roadmap is focused on expanding decision-grade residual value benchmarks into asset classes where assumptions currently drive capital exposure, underwriting error, and recovery loss.

Each index follows the same core methodology. Each is launched only when there is enough transaction data to support defensible, repeatable decisions.

Solar Residual Value Index

The Solar Residual Value Index is live and in use across financing, underwriting, recovery, and asset strategy decisions. It reflects real resale, recycling, and scrap outcomes across solar assets as they age and exit service.

Battery and Energy Storage Systems

Battery assets introduce layered complexity around degradation, chemistry, regulation, and recovery economics.

This index is designed to support:

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Financing and underwriting of storage-backed projects

Risk pricing for degraded or impaired assets

Recovery planning where reuse, recycling, or disposal economics vary materially

Status: Live
Focus: Transaction-backed recovery pathways and degradation-adjusted value ranges

Data Center & Infrastructure

Data centres and industrial assets carry high capital intensity and sharp recovery cliffs at end of life.

This index is designed to support:

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Downside risk analysis for capital providers

Liquidation and recovery pricing before asset transition

Portfolio-level planning for aging infrastructure

Status: In development
Focus: Secondary market liquidity, component-level recovery, and logistics-adjusted outcomes

How Buckstop decides what comes next

Indexes are not added based on demand alone.

Each roadmap addition is evaluated on multiple factors.

• Availability of real transaction data
• resale and recycle
• Material financial exposure tied to residual value assumptions
• Repeatability across portfolios, not one-off assets

This ensures every index can support live decisions, not just research.

What the roadmap means for your team

If residual value assumptions are driving critical decisions

• Difficult to justify under review
• Inconsistent across teams or deals
• Based on outdated or static studies

Then the roadmap indicates where Buckstop is expanding coverage next.

Teams often engage early to:

• Validate whether an upcoming index fits their asset class
• Pilot the methodology on adjacent assets
• Shape index development around real decision requirements

Apply the methodology to your assets

The fastest way to understand whether an index — live or upcoming— applies to your decisions is to test it on your assets.

A pilot focuses on:

• A defined asset set or portfolio
• A specific decision question
• Outputs that can be validated internally

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is the purpose of the index roadmap?
2. How does Buckstop decide which indexes to launch?
3. Will all indexes follow the same methodology?
4. Can teams engage Buckstop before an index is live?
5. Does the roadmap indicate launch timelines?
6. Is Buckstop limited to energy assets?
7. Can the roadmap change over time?