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Full project life cycle capability

SgurrEnergy has the capability to deliver at every phase of a project, from the early stages of site selection and feasibility right through to the project management of the construction phase and operation and maintenance. Click the links below for more information on how SgurrEnergy can help at each stage of delivery.

 

Feasibility

Project design and delivery

Construction Management

Operations and maintenance consultancy

Due diligence

 

Feasibility services

Our renewable energy feasibility studies are a crucial first step in obtaining the technical and financial information required to assess your project’s viability, minimise risk and enable you to make informed decisions in the most cost efficient way.

We provide a fully transparent service with feasibility studies tailored to your needs and the size and scope of your renewable project. As your project develops, from site selection to planning applications, we offer the following feasibility services:

  • Site selection: proposed site identification, selection and screening studies
  • Outline feasibility studies including:
    • Initial assessment of site energy resource
    • Investigation of key technical, environmental and planning constraints
    • Construction of geographic information system (GIS) based constraint maps
    • Identification of candidate technology (wind turbines, PV modules etc.) and initial layout design
    • Initial financial modeling
    • Recommendations for progressing projects and requirements for more detailed feasibility work
  • Detailed feasibility studies:
    • Site visits
    • Detailed assessment of site energy resource
    • Detailed assessment of technical, environmental and planning constraints
    • Consultation with potential stakeholders and planning authorities
    • Project design and layout optimisation
    • Detailed financial modeling
  • Planning and environmental support:
    • Screening and scoping process
    • In-house capability and strategic partnerships for all elements of the EIA process
    • Management of EIA process
    • Preparation and submission of planning documentation

Project design and delivery services

Our accurate, expert project design and development services take into account a range of issues including environmental and social aspects such as local planning policies, environmental impact and also technical, engineering and economic considerations, land availability, grid connection and ease of access, to minimise your risk of underperformance and technology failure. Throughout service delivery we work to maximise the economic performance of your project.
Our highly qualified and experienced engineers, analysts and consultants will ensure your project is designed to optimise
the energy resource of your site at each and every stage of design and development via the following services:

  • Measurement and data acquisition
  • Resource assessment and energy yield prediction
    • Wave and tidal resource assessment
    • Biomass fuel supply evaluation
    • Solar resource evaluation
  • Project sizing and design optimisation, for example:
    • Wind farm layout design
    • Islanded hybrid system optimisation
    • Industrial biomass system design
    • Redevelopment of decommissioned hydro plants
    • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling, combined with Galion Lidar measurements for accurate modeling of complex wind farm sites
    • Technology assessment
    • Robust pre-contract documentation, specifications and negotiations
    • Financial modeling including capital costs, power purchase agreement (PPA) and operational expenditure (OPEX)
    • Planning application advice, guidance and completion
    • Cost effective EIA
    • Noise and vibration assessment and mitigation advice
    • Grid connection optimisation

Construction management services

We take complete end-to-end ownership of the construction management (CM) of your renewable project, working in partnership with you, to ensure your expectations on timescale and quality are surpassed while budgets are maintained. Alternatively we can provide specific technical services to support your project management team. Personal contact and interaction are fundamental to our construction management approach. Our services begin during the project design
phase and extend to schedule and budget evaluations (including accuracy checks of cost estimates). Formation of bid packages and organisation and monitoring of daily construction activities are just some of the services we provide.
Our construction management services are tailored to your project based on size and complexity, and backed by our ongoing commitment to total quality management. Construction management services include:

  • Project management, owner’s engineer and independent engineer services
  • Contract review and enforcement of condition
  • Review of contractors’ design and documentation
  • On-site construction monitoring
  • Quality assurance inspections
  • Witnessing of key tests (on and off site)
  • Technical advice in the following areas:
    • Civil and structural engineering
    • Mechanical engineering
    • Electrical and control engineering
  • Built to specifications comparisons
  • Health, safety and environmental services
  • Expert witness services
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Operations and maintenance consultancy services

Whether provided as a stand-alone service, or part of a suite of services supporting project delivery and operation, our operation and maintenance (O&M) consultancy services are designed to optimise operational performance and increase the revenue generation of your project while reducing operational costs. Our experienced specialists work closely with you, helping to operate your renewable energy projects safely, more efficiently and cost effectively - maximising the energy yield of your project and minimising lost revenue through downtime. We understand that reliability, energy capture and safety are key, and our O&M consultancy services, delivered by experts in their field, can identify and address underlying causes
of lost production and develop robust O&M strategies via:

  • Post investment appraisal of projects
  • Asset management, inspection, monitoring and performance optimisation utilising Galion Lidar and our in-house optimisation software, SgurrTrend.
  • Specification preparation and tender assessment
  • Warranty and contract management including end of manufacturer warranty inspections and audits
  • Failure prediction and strategy/ condition monitoring and analysis
  • Incident investigation/ root cause failure analysis
  • Site health & safety management and consultancy

 

Due diligence

We provide impartial, reliable and confidential assessments of renewable projects for banks, private equity institutions and developers across the globe. We understand the risks of investing in a renewable energy project and appreciate your requirements for reliable and bankable data predictions of annual energy yields, accompanied by robust uncertainty assessments and risk mitigation measures. We provide due diligence services throughout the project lifecycle to help optimise performance and increase return on investment. Our technical and commercial due diligence has played a proactive part in allowing many complex and challenging projects to overcome difficult risks and issues, obtain financing and be delivered safely, on time and budget and to achieve operational targets.
Our due diligence services include:

  • Independent technical, financial and commercial due diligence
  • Lender’s engineer/ bank’s engineer provisions ongoing through construction
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Initial public offering (IPO)
  • Strategic investment advice and guidance
  • CAPEX, OPEX and forecast revenue
  • Contracting and procurement strategies
  • Technical assessments on renewable technologies and their manufacturers and suppliers including wind turbines,
    solar panels and wave and tidal devices
  • Expert reports on established and emerging technologies
  • Supply chain and supplier analysis

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