Services & Clients
CORE SUPPORT OPTIONS
FEASIBILITY: Preliminary site & project red-flag review; initial design-options assessment; professional threshold energy production estimation; basic project cash-flow analysis.
DEVELOPMENT: Comprehensive project or portfolio technical/regulatory/economic analyses, reflecting detailed site reviews that include electrical, geotechnical, design and engineering development evaluation.
IMPLEMENTATION: Formal or informal RFP development; RFP process management; final system/equipment recommendations; policy due diligence; contract/warranty development; project management; QA/construction oversight.
FINANCIAL: Project-level or project pipeline prioritization, financial ,modeling & review; EPC contract & other bankability reviews; PPA & attributes (e.g., SRECs) negotiation & placement; detailed financing & financial structuring options, including negotiation with lease financiers & other 3rd party sources of equity/tax equity and project or revolving debt.
We objectively pre-qualify sites & potential solar PV facilities to investor-grade standards, on technical, financial & regulatory dimensions. In so doing we provide transparent, decision-ready information that helps our clients understand the trade-offs between (for example):
CFS services above are illustrative, complementary, and available sequentially.
EXAMPLE CLIENTS AND PROJECTS
FEASIBILITY: Preliminary site & project red-flag review; initial design-options assessment; professional threshold energy production estimation; basic project cash-flow analysis.DEVELOPMENT: Comprehensive project or portfolio technical/regulatory/economic analyses, reflecting detailed site reviews that include electrical, geotechnical, design and engineering development evaluation.
IMPLEMENTATION: Formal or informal RFP development; RFP process management; final system/equipment recommendations; policy due diligence; contract/warranty development; project management; QA/construction oversight.
FINANCIAL: Project-level or project pipeline prioritization, financial ,modeling & review; EPC contract & other bankability reviews; PPA & attributes (e.g., SRECs) negotiation & placement; detailed financing & financial structuring options, including negotiation with lease financiers & other 3rd party sources of equity/tax equity and project or revolving debt.
We objectively pre-qualify sites & potential solar PV facilities to investor-grade standards, on technical, financial & regulatory dimensions. In so doing we provide transparent, decision-ready information that helps our clients understand the trade-offs between (for example):
- System sizing v. available financial supports
- Crystalline-Silicon PV v. thin film,
- Installed costs v. economic benefits
- Rate savings v. sRECs, and
- Various supplemental value streams (e.g., between grants, state tax benefits, & utility programs)
- Rooftop (20,000 sq ft or larger);
- Ground-mounted (prefer landfills, brownfields, & Superfund sites);
- Direct-install (site host finances & owns due to sufficient capital & tax appetite);
- The value proposition of various PPA terms or other 3d party financed arrangements
- Expert site or roof assessments;
- A pool of top-line EPC contractors for turnkey consideration;
- Top-line PPA providers that best fit the client’s goals;
- Operating-lease or capital-lease analysis & implementation resources; our own sources of tax equity, straight equity, or debt.
CFS services above are illustrative, complementary, and available sequentially.
EXAMPLE CLIENTS AND PROJECTS
