Services
Technical Advisory and Consulting
With our technical advisory and consulting services, we support our clients – developers, owners, investors, and other parties involved – across all the stages of their renewable energy assets. We contribute our expertise and technical knowledge to greenfield projects, during the construction, commissioning, and operation phases, and to project transactions and project financing. Our highly specialized renewable energy consultants provide independent and tailor-made advice to meet our client’s needs to ensure the maximum profitability and an adequate risk management.
We pursue excellence by ensuring quality and the continuous improvement of our activities and processes, that are accredited in Spain by ISO 9001, the world’s most popular standard for quality management, that certifies our high-standard services and solutions.
Full range of our technical advisory and consulting services are described below:
Development
- Site assessments and site adequacy
- Solar resource assessments and energy yield assessments
- Feasibility assessments
- High-level installed capacity evaluation and optimization
- Preliminary grid connection review
- Review of technical permitting
Project transactions and project financing
Technical Due Diligence for project financing and transactions:
- Site assessment and site adequacy
- Technical design reviews and equipment / suppliers reviews
- Technical contractual reviews, inclusive of PPA, EPC, and O&M agreements
- Solar resource and energy yield assessment
- Project schedule review
- Grid connection review
- Review of technical permitting
- CAPEX & OPEX estimation
- Analysis of the project according to the Equator Principles
- Loan review according to the Green Loan Principles
Construction and operation
Construction and commissioning:
- EPC milestones verification
- Monitoring of construction progress
- Verification and compliance of PAC/FAC and COD
Operational:
- Review of the performance/operation of the plant, analysis of the main incidents occurred, and review of the solutions implemented to mitigate and solve them.
- Adjustments and estimation of yield based on historical production.
- Historical OPEX and modeled OPEX review
- Verification of technical conditions under the EPC, O&M and PPA agreements.
Highlighted projects
Portfolio of 21 PV projects for Natixis CIB and Santander CIB
Country: Spain
Capacity: 1231 MWp
Service(s): Technical Advisory
Client(s): Natixis CIB & Santander CIB
Enertis Applus+ acted as Technical Advisor for Natixis CIB and Santander CIB in financing a portfolio of 21 solar PV plants in Spain with a total capacity of 1,231 MWp.
Grenergy Renovables’ Valkyria transaction
Country: Spain
Capacity: 297 MW
Service(s): Technical Advisory
Client(s): Grenergy Renovables
Enertis Applus+ acted as Technical Advisor for Grenergy Renovables in the sale of two solar PV plants totaling 297 MW in capacity and located in Spain. As part of our services, we carried out a Vendor’s Technical Due Diligence within the Valkyria transaction, in which Grenergy Renovables reached an agreement to sell these plants to Allianz Capital Partners for over €270 million, on behalf of Allianz insurance companies and further institutional investors.