Services provided by PowerCo Energy Ltd
We offer our consultancy in a variety of manners: Not only on a retainer basis but also on a monthly, weekly, daily and even an hourly basis for telephone consultancy.
We advise municipalities as well as private companies and businesses. This consultancy takes many forms and ranges from helping with initial introduction to the technologies and methodologies of waste to energy to consultancy on full projects, from engineering with engineers, contactors, vendors, public forums, delivering feasibility and full advanced business planning and financial modelling.
We work in multidisciplinary teams, where they are encouraged to think in terms of overall project gains rather than from a purely discipline-specific, partisan point of view. It’s this deliver approach provides a dovetailed interdisciplinary solution that add compound value across the whole life cycle of a project.
Energy
- Wind energy
- Waste-to-energy
- Renewable energy
Management Consulting
- Project and Programme Management
- Strategy & Operations
- Studies & evaluation
- Training & Education
ENERGY
At a time when security of the supply of sustainable and affordable energy is at the top of the political agenda PowerCo Energy Ltd offers an intelligent consultancy, tested by years of hands-on experience, in which both private and public sector clients can place their trust.
Energy experience
PowerCo Energy Ltd has experience in the planning, design and implementation of energy solutions.
Our energy team provides expertise on the full spectrum of energy technologies and all parts of the value chain from production over transmission to distribution. We assist our clients on all aspects of a project, ranging from planning to engineering design, to long-term operation and maintenance.
Waste-to-energy consultancy
It is our knowledge and experience of how best to plan, procure and manage the implementation of waste-to-energy projects, in combination with our detailed technical knowledge of the involved mechanical and electrical equipment that underpins our strong position in the market.
We assist our clients through all phases of the project – from idea to operation – and the combination of our experience and expertise means that we can provide no-learning-curve client support at every step of the project.
We assist the future facility owners/operators in the planning, design and procurement of their facilities. Subsequently, we supervise and manage the implementation of the projects on behalf of the clients. We can assist in the establishment of waste-to-energy facilities under different contracting structures. On EPC contracts, we act as the Owner’s Engineer. On facilities procured using several contracts we act as EPCM (Engineering Procurement Contract Management) consultant. On PPPs, we provide technical and project management support to public waste management authorities in the planning, procurement and implementation of the transactions. On operational facilities, we provide asset management advisory services tailor made for waste-to-energy facilities.
Finance
Financial models created by PowerCo Energy Ltd are fully parametric. Specific set of parameters differs in each of three type of models available: for waste-to-energy plants, wind and solar power stations. Input section of Parameters sheet and all the project data in the Projects sheet are parameters, which can be easily modified to recalculate the model. Total number of parameters is around 50. Any project can be checked for any debt/equity ratio, interest rate, share structure, index of inflation etc. in minutes.PowerCo Energy Ltd provides financial model as mandatory part of feasibility study or – if client is interested – model can be developed basing on the declaration of input parameters by the client. For this, client must fill out the Project Questionnaire form and send it to us. We need 3-5 working days and advance payment to perform calculations in accordance with our model.
Certain examination of what-if scenarios can be ordered, too. For example, client can be interested to find out what minimal tariff provides profitability of the project or what is optimal depreciation period. Sometimes answers on such a question are non-evident even to certified accountant.
PowerCo Energy Ltd may be able to offer 100% financing for these projects via loan programs through various lenders however often the client is asked to post up to 20% of the total construction costs.
These loans need to meet certain criteria like any other financial transactions of this nature and are based on each project independently.
Some lenders do not require initial down payments or up front soft costs. The interest rate is in the normal commercial % interest area and are offered without pre-payment penalties.
The lenders always require a review of a professional 3rd party feasibility study and once favourably reviewed, they will normally issue a conditional commitment letter subject to the full due diligence inspection. Once they have reviewed the study the process begins with a scheduled inspection by the lenders representative who will visit the municipality / client. meeting with the sponsors, city officials and, if the facility is to deliver electric power, the local utility company who will purchase the power produced by the new plant.
In addition, the inspector will also meet with the various government officials and companies who will be delivering the waste materials, as each of them will pay “tipping” fees” for deliveries. The plant receives revenues from only two principal sources, the sale of power (electricity and or synthetic gas) and fees from tipping and disposal of inputted waste.
The lender is required to ensure that the sources of revenue for the plant meet reasonable guidelines. The lender will also require guarantees from the facility owners whether it be a PPC (Public Private Corporation) or a private Utility or indeed a municipality.
It is the purpose of the Feasibility Study to determine the size (capacity) and approximate cost of the plant. This, of course, is a function of the waste materials to be processed. In delivering the study we dispatch specialists to make these determinations (metrics) which are based on surveys and various sources of information provided by local officials.
As in many countries the generation of electricity is owned and operated by government as will be any waste to energy facility. What the lenders don’t want and will not do is use the facility itself as security for any loans. Often a sovereign guarantee is required either with or absent attachable off shore collateral.