SgurrEnergy is a globally respected renewable energy consultancy with expertise in solar power. They provide full project lifecycle engineering and consultancy services, including feasibility studies, design and development, construction, operation and maintenance. They have assessed over 65,000 megawatts of renewable energy projects in over 40 countries. SgurrEnergy aims to help clients reduce risk and operate solar projects profitably through their technical expertise and experience gained from working on numerous solar projects worldwide.
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sgurrenergy.com
Local knowledge; global expertise
We’re proud of our reputation for technical excellence.
SgurrEnergy is a globally respected, countries, spread across
multidisciplinary renewable energy 6 continents, in all terrains and environments. We are dedicated to working in partnership
consultancy with a reputation for engineering with our clients, helping you reduce risk, plan,
and technical excellence. In India, we are recognised as one of the design, and operate your solar projects safely,
leading technical consultants having assessed profitably and with confidence.
Operating from a network of offices across over 550MW of solar PV projects which are
Europe, North America and Asia, our global Commissioned and under implementation. This dedication, coupled with commercial acumen
team of over 100 engineers and consultants and regulatory knowledge, ensures our services are
has extensive international experience and an We are part of Wood Group, an international tailored to your needs - offering practical, informed
impressive track-record - energy services company with over 36,000 and valuable advice whatever the stage of your
having assessed more than 65,000 megawatts people worldwide and extensive experience solar project.
(MW) of renewable energy projects in over 40 across the global energy services sector.
Solar Power
We have the solutions.
Successful project delivery is at the heart Design and development services • Warranty and contract management
of all we do and our expert engineers and including: end of manufacturer warranty
consultants provide full 360° solar project • Project sizing and design optimisation inspections and audits
lifecycle engineering and consultancy • Technology assessment and equipment • Failure prediction and strategy/condition
services including: specification monitoring and analysis
• Robust pre-contract documentation, • Site health & safety management and
Feasibility specifications and negotiations consultancy
• Financial modeling including capital
• Site selection: proposed site identification, costs, power purchase agreement (PPA) Due diligence
selection and screening studies and operational expenditure (OPEX)
• Outline feasibility studies including: • Planning application advice, guidance • Independent technical and financial due
- Initial assessment of site energy resource and completion diligence:
- Investigation of key technical, • Grid connection application and - Lender’s engineer/bank’s engineer
environmental and planning constraints optimisation provisions ongoing through construction
- Construction of geographic information - Mergers and acquisitions
system (GIS) based constraint maps Construction - Initial public offering (IPO)
- Identification of candidate technology (PV • Strategic investment advice and guidance
modules; invertors; mounting and tracking • Technical advisor, owner’s engineer and • Contracting and procurement strategies
systems, etc.) and initial layout design independent engineer services • Technical assessments of technologies
- Initial financial modeling • Project and site management and their manufacturers and suppliers
- Recommendations for progressing • Project design review • Expert reports on established and
projects and requirements for more • Quality assurance inspections and factory emerging technologies
detailed feasibility work acceptance tests • Supply chain and supplier analysis
• Detailed feasibility studies • Electrical and control systems expertise
- Site visits • Built to specifications comparisons Independent power performance tests
- Detailed assessment of site solar • Witnessing of commissioning, plant testing
energy resource and bank energy yield and issuing of take-over certificates • Review of test procedures of the plant
prediction • Contract review and enforcement of developed by the developer
- Detailed assessment of technical, conditions including liquidated damages • Monitor overall plant performance tests
environmental and planning constraints and test reports
- Consultation with potential stakeholders Operation and • Visual acceptance tests
and planning authorities maintenance consultancy • Acceptance tests for output and
- Project design and layout optimisation availability
- Detailed financial modelling • Specification preparation and tender
• Planning and environmental support assessment
- Preparation and submission of planning • Post investment appraisal of projects
documentation • Asset management, inspection and
monitoring
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when predicting the energy yield for our
landmark 24 MW solar photovoltaic (PV)
project in Italy.
Claudio Vescovo
Senior Associate - Clean Energy Partners
BNP Paribas Clean Energy Partners
Experienced
We’ve a proven track-record.
We have a wealth of experience and proven
track-record of providing industry-leading
Portfolio of 185MW of Solar PV Charanka Solar Park
technical and advisory services, working with
plants
Client: Various developers
leading developers, lenders, investors and Location: Gujarat, India
Client: Asian Development Bank (ADB)
operators on some of the world’s largest and Capacity: 110 MWp
Location: Rajasthan and Gujarat, India
most challenging solar sites whether off-grid Service: Owner’s Engineering services
Capacity: 185 MWp
or grid connected. and Lender’s engineering
Service: Technical due diligence
services
We help clients achieve project finance by
Appointed as technical advisor, by a world leading
providing due diligence of proposed power SgurrEnergy India provided consulting services
bank, ADB, to assist with their investments in
plants, and bankable energy yield studies with to more than 50% of the solar PV plants
a portfolio of a total of 185MW solar PV plants
P50 and P90 confidence levels. commissioned in April 2012 which are located
located in India. Most recent work with ADB
included providing technical due diligence and at Charnaka solar park. This is one of the largest
We have comprehensive knowledge of solar parks in Asia with current installed capacity
lenders engineering services for Reliance Power’s
solar equipment, invertors and balance of 214MW.
40MW solar PV plant located in the Indian state of
of plant, designing systems to overcome
Rajasthan.
site constraints through consideration The scope of work included providing Owner’s
of topography, solar resource, planning engineering services to various developers and
In our role as technical advisor we provided a
requirements and correct component Lender’s engineering services to various banks
wide range of services including:
integration.
who invested in this Solar Park.
• Project documentation review
• Technical review of the developer’s
Indian solar guidebook and approach to building out the portfolio
Owner’s engineering services for
knowledge management • Bi-monthly site visits and inspections of 25 MW solar PV plant
plants, both completed and in development
Client: International Finance • Review of the plant design provided by the Client: Alex Group
Corporation (IFC) developer Location: Gujurat, India
Location: India • Critical review of the EPC contracts Capacity: 25 MWp
Capacity: 5 MWp employed by the Vendor across the Service: Owner’s engineering services
Service: Production of a guidebook, portfolio
market analysis, training and • Critical review of Vendor’s Acceptance Chosen as an extended team by Alex Group to
dissemination, construction Test Procedure to be employed across provide Owner’s engineering services for their
monitoring and acceptance the portfolio 25MW solar PV plant in Gujarat. This plant was
testing of demonstration plant • Energy yield verification commissioned in November 2011and our scope
• Technology review of key module and of work included:
Contracted by IFC to provide knowledge inverter suppliers
management services for solar energy • Review of operational data and appraisal
development in India, the project included: of plant performance • Review of the module, inverter and support
• Advising on O&M terms for contract structures
• Development of a comprehensive negotiations, including solar irradiation • Validation of built drawings submitted by the
guidebook for developers and measurement, performance guarantees supplier
investors of both photovoltaic (PV) and and liquidated damages • Detailed irradiation assessment for the
concentrating solar power plants selected site
• Market analysis • Review of energy yield assessment
• Training and dissemination activities for • Energy yield uncertainty analysis and P90
the development of solar power projects confidence calculations
• Preparation of a global database of • Construction phase technical advisory
companies involved in solar PV, CPV and services
concentrating solar thermal industry • Independent monitoring of power
performance tests
• Validation of contractor’s installation,
The commission also included construction pre-commissioning and commissioning
monitoring and acceptance testing of a 5 documents and procedures.
MWp PV plant with visual acceptance testing,
availability tests, performance ratio tests and
the independent monitoring of irradiation
and key plant parameters using a mobile
measurement station.
