Feasibility Studies

KEMA performs full-scale economic and technical feasibility studies for clients interested in developing renewable and distributed generation projects

Renewable project developers are faced with significant challenges and risks to the financial and performance success of their projects—resource availability, rising costs for commodities, components, and construction, environmental and permitting consideration, and public interaction.

 

Technical and economic analysis for project success

KEMA performs full-scale economic and technical feasibility studies for clients interested in developing renewable and distributed generation projects. Our services include:

• financial scenario analysis

• interconnection studies

• energy resource assessment

• siting support.

We help clients identify favorable project locations—analyzing local site conditions, current plant operating capacity, environmental conditions and electrical infrastructure,and potential permitting challenges.We also perform long-term resource correlations, utilizing on-site measured data and local long-term data to provide in-depth analysis of uncertainty factors in future energy production.

 

We also conduct in-depth financial analysis using our own proprietary financial model. This model helps predict long-term economic outlooks under alternative scenarios. the model also is able to examine the effects of non-traditional revenue sources - such as renewable portfolio credits, government incentives, emission credits - and avoided cost calculations that could improve the financial attractiveness a project.