Renewable Energy + Energy Efficiency

Renewable energy. Developer Advisory Tasks:

• Resource analysis for determining the generation potential
• Pre-feasibility and feasibility studies
• Executive Project
• Assistance in the optimal location of the plant and its construction
• Alternative assessment for connection to the network, and support in the technology to be used
• Plant and interconnection environmental impact studies
• Studies required for requesting transportation system access and expansion
• Documentation and formalities to enter the MEM and before relevant bodies
• Land management
• Plant and the Interconnection work inspection
• Contract management
• Advice to banks/investors

Energy efficiency

• Assessment to validate objectives, diagnostics and preliminary studies, design and results of pilot projects and expected impacts
• Assessment of economic-financial models
• Preparation of the total cost and annual and global impact studies
• Assessment of the preferred option

Due diligence: Restructuring and privatizations

• Assets restructuring and disaggregation
• Advice on mergers and acquisitions
• Identification and evaluation of investment opportunities
• Technical, commercial, legal and financial due diligence
• Project development and integrated risk assessment
• Advice on the optimal business and financial strategy

Basic electrical studies, Stage I and Stage II:

• Baseline studies: studies of electrical flows simulating the effect on the electrical system of the influence area, the losses associated with each interconnection alternative and expansion works, if necessary
• Stage I: studies of load flows, short circuit, transient stability and transport requirements
• Stage II: transient electromagnetic studies, transient stability, small disturbances and protection coordination

Socio-Environmental Impact Study

Executive study

• Legal and Institutional framework, international agreements, etc.
• Contribution of the project to climate change mitigation
• Environmental and Social Diagnosis
• Citizen Participation Instances
• Identification, Assessment and Evaluation of Environmental and Social Impacts
• Environmental and Social Management Plan

Cleaning

• Process planning support
• Calculation of efficient costs with analytical models and econometric benchmarking techniques
• Modelling of process variables, such as market, regulatory losses, investments, etc.
• Definition of tariff structures:
  • Definition of subsidy policies
  • Proposal of new tariff models
  • Simulation of the Proposed Model

Land management for mining companies

• Identification of surface rights holders
• Collaboration in the design of negotiation strategies and permit applications with surface rights holders
• Comprehensive support to the legal area
• Support in the proceedings before organizations / institutions
• Contractor access to work areas
• Participation in negotiations with the surface rights holders
• Support related to the relevant administrative management of the projects’ activities
• Management and updating of geo-referenced information
• Proposal of compensation mechanisms, criteria and formulas

Pricing projections:

• Of purchase of a large user authorized in the MEM
• Of joint purchase
• Of the SADI marginal costs
• Of node factors
• OED and ENRE charges