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29th October 2024
ADVISORY
Overview
Understanding the technical and commercial challenges across the lifecycle of a project is key to your success.
Our advisory team provide end to end technical and commercial advice for renewable projects, from planning through to construction and into the operational stage. We can provide advice on the best technology type and potential yield performance, undertake resource assessment and provide technical due diligence.
Whether you are a lender or buyer going through an acquisition and exploring your finance options, or a developer who wants to know how operationally viable a project could be, we provide tailored advice that works for you.
Key Features
Expert advice at every stage of your project
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Integrated solutions
Our advisory team work in close collaboration with our in-house planning, environmental, engineering, and asset management teams. You can be assured that you are receiving the right advice at every stage of your project.
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Expertise across multiple technologies
Renewables is what we do and it’s all we do. Our team has extensive experience in providing bespoke support for onshore wind, ground mounted solar, energy storage and green hydrogen technologies, including integrated and co-located sites.
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A tailored service
Renewable projects can face many challenges and understanding all your options and the best solution is key to success. We work in partnership with our clients to find a bespoke solution for every project.
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On-the-ground experience
Our advice is not only based on robust data analysis, but also with on-the ground experience to assess your sites challenges and issues firsthand, ensuring you receive practical and tailored recommendations.
Our Services
Support from the first step
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Techno-economic studies
We can de-risk your project with a first pass assessment of your site, or a pre-feasibility study outlining the constraints of a proposed project. A full techno-economic feasibility study will help you make the right investment decisions.
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Grid technical advice
As experts in distribution and transmission connection applications, we can help with identifying the right connection strategy, preparing your application, reviewing connection offers and supporting the management of the connection process. Our team actively engage in regulatory consultations to ensure you are up to date on the latest grid changes.
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Outline project design
Even at the earliest stages of feasibility and project scoping, our consultants look to our end-to-end experience to ensure that our outline project designs take into consideration every stage of the project life cycle to enhance your planning application and de-risk future project stages.
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Resource and yield assessment
We combine industry-standard software tools with our own knowledge gained from 15 years in the industry to prepare bankable energy yield reports for solar, wind and multi-technology projects. Clients from all over the UK use our assessments to support their business planning, project sales and acquisitions, and to secure debt financing.
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Due diligence
Technical Due Diligence for buyers, sellers and lenders. We provide a rapid red flag review to give an early indication of the key risks, followed by a comprehensive review of status, risks and opportunities of option and lease agreements and plans, grid connection offers, planning consent and/or compliance, key project agreements, construction programmes. We provide advice on critical cost and performance assumptions and support you to identify additional value from projects.
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Design optimisation
Our solar design optimisation tool, and experience with PVSyst yield simulation capabilities enables us to optimise your solar farm design to achieve the best return on investment.
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Repowering
As your asset reaches end of life we provide a technical, planning and financial appraisal, to help you make a fully formed decision on your next steps.
Recent projects
Solar
For a client considering two ground-mounted solar PV sites, we carried out constraints assessments, engaging with ecologists and environmentalists. We provided preliminary design, yield studies and financial models.
We’ve assessed the asset portfolios of more than 20 big industrial energy users across the UK for our developer client, prioritising projects with fewest risks.
We’re identifying opportunities for large-scale (over 10MW) ground-mounted solar in two regions, including financial assessment, identifying land, reviewing local authority development plans and solar yield analysis.
Our client is developing a portfolio of English solar farms. We identified suitable sites, with a focus on affordable grid connection with few delay risks. Around 100MW has been secured across four sites, all but one with confirmed connection dates before 2026.
Mixed technologies
We’re working with partners on four projects to investigate co-locating hydrogen production facilities with onshore solar and wind developments.
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Our experts can provide support for every stage of your project’s lifecycle. Find out how we can support you and your business to achieve your renewable ambitions.
