Renewable Energy Advisory Services

Overview

Our comprehensive portfolio of renewables technical advisory services can help you plan, design, finance, build, invest, operate, maintain and manage wind both on land and offshore, and solar. We help instill confidence in renewable energy by helping you mitigate risk and navigate complexities throughout the project life cycle and across the value chain.

Advanced design and energy assessment

Optimizing your solar plant design and accurately estimating its future production are essential to a successful outcome.

Bankable energy production reports

When projects go to financing, investors and lenders ask one question: Whose opinion can we trust? Our comprehensive and authoritative reports are widely respected and accepted in the financial sector, giving you confidence in overcoming financing hurdles.

Bankable energy production reports provide developers, investors, and lenders with a thorough, objective, and well-documented evaluation of the energy production potential of a wind or solar project.

Site optimization, energy estimates and use-case analysis

We help design and optimize your renewable energy project in order to meet its intended use case, including front-of-the-meter deployments for revenue-grade power and energy services and behind-the-meter applications for self-generation and self-consumption strategies that can help service loads and ensure reliability.

UL Solutions provides preliminary design support, optimization analysis and independent engineering/lenders’ technical advisory reports for project financing.

Tailored due diligence solutions for wind and solar projects and portfolios

Investing in a renewable energy project or portfolio is a complex endeavor requiring an extensive evaluation effort. Understanding the inherent technical risks of a project is a critical facet of this effort, and the conclusions of this evaluation allow you to determine if the return is worth the risk.

From energy resource and technology reviews to balance of plant and operations and maintenance (O&M) reviews, we leverage our experience on every wind and solar project we evaluate. Our industry experts have played an active role in many of the world’s most important and groundbreaking renewable energy projects. This experience is important, but equally core to our company is our reliability.

With significant investments in play, you can’t afford to have questions go unanswered. Our teams work with you and maintain regular communication as we evaluate your project, and our global presence means that help is always close by.

Independent engineering for an objective review

We support developers and lenders in their evaluation of technologies and projects for debt and equity investments. Our independent engineering reviews deliver objective information from a full scope of services needed to identify and mitigate the possible risks in wind and solar projects.

Our solid reputation and global bankability in the renewable energy industry has been built on experience, quality and transparency, and our track record reflects the trust that lenders have placed with us to help ensure project viability and profitability.

Critical review paths for renewable energy mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

We understand that different investments require different levels of review. Whether you are investing in or selling a single project or acquiring a global portfolio of projects, UL Solutions will work with you to determine the critical review path for your investment. We offer guidance on the best path for due diligence and identify critical risks, and tailor our approach to your specific needs. Our project evaluation strategies are adaptable to the specific nature and size of your project.

Identify, manage and mitigate revenue risks

When buying or selling renewable energy projects or portfolios, you need the best industry experts to advise on best practices in developing, commissioning, operating, and transacting on projects, as well as how to identify, manage and mitigate operational or revenue risks.

Our extensive technical experience in renewable energy project finance makes us the ideal partner for independent technical M&A advisory. Our interdisciplinary team of engineers and technical advisors will evaluate the project or portfolio in-depth to help you understand energy production potential, technology and design risks, operational and construction costs, and permitting and interconnection timelines.

We then create a plan to identify and mitigate technical risks and maximize returns. UL Solutions has worked on thousands of renewable energy projects in all parts of the world, enabling us to go deeper and provide more detail and actionable recommendations than less experienced advisors.