Development Support & New Entity Mobilizations
Today it is imperative that project developers possess vision and knowledge that spans the entire scope and life of a potential project. This includes availability of technology, fuel price trends, and long term maintenance and operations issues of the equipment chosen.
Sterling Energy's success as a consultant requires us to intimately know dozens of plants in every stage of development and operation. This level of experience offers a distinct opportunity to foresee potential problems with technologies, equipment, contracts, or vendors. For instance, we have a firm grasp of the EPC contract issues based on observing the work of a variety of EPC contractors throughout construction, startup, and later during plant operation. This puts us in a unique position to write and review RFPs, and negotiate the EPC contract.
Some of the many development services we provide on a regular basis include:
- Operating cost projections and modeling
- Life-cycle maintenance cost projections
- Power sales agreement review and modeling
- Business plan development
- Development of the financing package
- Comparative cost evaluations of technical options
- Management of the RFP bid process
- EPC bid evaluation and contract negotiation
- Second Project Manager and contract management systems
- Major maintenance contract development
- O&M bid review and contract negotiation
Many of our clients then choose to build a free standing O&M entity, to gain better control of plant operations. The rewards of defining and developing your own world class team to take pride and ownership of your new plant are innumerable. Sterling Energy has built several such organizations on four continents.
This process is best explained on the Project Fact Sheets which may be accessed from the bottom of this page. During a typical O&M entity mobilization, Sterling Energy will:
- Develop the mobilization plan and schedule
- Define the O&M organization and culture
- Interview and recruit a dynamic team
- Coordinate vendor training
- Write business policies and administrative procedures
- Implement accounting, procurement and contract management programs
- Develop and refine operating procedures
- Set up maintenance and materials management programs
- Assess and purchase spare parts
- Cultivate a culture of incremental improvement of plant and team
- Define and build a working O&M cost model
- Build the initial management plan and budget
Project Fact Sheets are available for your review which represent a small fraction of the many assignments we've taken on to evaluate the economics, physical condition, management practices and operation contracts of plants for potential investors. Click Here to view the Project Fact Sheets.
