Development, planning and advisory
We develop our own projects, so our modelling and advice come from doing the work, not just reviewing it.
Energy project development
We originate and develop grid-scale battery storage and utility-scale solar in New Zealand, and we partner with landowners and investors to take projects from an idea to financial close.
- Site and land
- Site selection against grid capacity, land options and leases, and early engagement with neighbours and iwi.
- Grid connection
- Connection strategy and applications with Transpower and lines companies, including concept assessments and investigation agreements.
- Resource consent
- Assessments of environmental effects, specialist studies and responses to council requests.
- Offtake
- Battery tolls, solar PPAs and firming contracts, run as competitive processes.
- Procurement
- Battery, inverter and transformer tenders, and EPC contracts with clear performance terms.
- Finance
- Financial models, investor materials and project debt through to financial close.
Techno-economic planning and consulting
Investment-grade modelling for batteries, solar, wind and gas, built on OptiGen, our dispatch and revenue-modelling platform.
Our models run on half-hourly prices, so they capture the evening peaks and dry-year spikes that drive the value of storage and firming.
- Dispatch and revenue modelling
- Optimised battery and plant dispatch against price paths, with arbitrage, contract and ancillary revenue.
- Hybrid and co-location sizing
- Solar, wind and battery combinations sized for the connection, with curtailment and degradation modelled.
- Costs and returns
- Capex, opex, LCOE and LCOS, cash flows and returns, with clear assumptions.
- Offtake pricing
- Toll, cap and PPA pricing, and what each structure does to the project's risk.
- Stress testing
- Price-path and scarcity scenarios, including dry years and back-to-back dry years.
- Feasibility and reviews
- Feasibility studies, red-flag reviews and independent reviews of third-party models.
Energy advisory
Commercial structuring for developers, investors and large energy users. New Zealand is short of energy in dry winters, so a large flat load needs more than a renewable PPA. We design the contracts and hedges that make supply firm.
- Firmed supply for large loads
- Supply for data centres and industrial loads that holds every half-hour, from storage, solar, hedges and flexibility.
- Offtake and PPA structuring
- Sleeved and virtual PPAs, node price differences and how to hedge them, and firming contracts.
- Hedging and liquidity
- Hedge books, futures margin and prudential security, sized on stress tests, not averages.
- Market and policy
- New Zealand wholesale market, transmission and consenting context for investment decisions.
- Transactions
- Deal structures, term sheets, valuation support and due diligence for buyers and sellers of projects.
Need a model, a structure or a second opinion?
We work on fixed-scope studies and on longer development partnerships.