Decentralized Renewable Energy

Clients

  • Investors and developers targeting to (i) create a renewable energy portfolio, (ii) develop captive micro-utilities
  • Businesses looking to use renewable energy as a part of their energy mix.

Inter-disciplinary approach

Combines understanding of different energy technologies options, their financial feasibility and ways of raising capital.

Footprint

India, Tanzania, Nepal, Uganda

Illustrative case scenarios

  • Case Study: Operational handholding of ESCOs and Investors in a Pan-India renewable energy based rural electrification program
  • Case Study Supporting a commercial Indian bank in framing a working capital line for Bridge Financing of off-grid renewable energy project
  • Case Study: Solar Rooftop deployment for a large multi-facility Indian mid-sized business group with over 10 facilities in NCR region
 

Services offered include

  • Project Site identification and feasibility assessment
  • Economic and Techno Commercial Assessment
  • Technical project design
  • Business Model Development
  • Project demand assessment (including GIS based analysis of project areas and customer tagging)
  • Preparation of investment grade DPRs
  • Environment and Social Screening and Risk Assessment
  • Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Policy assessment and formulation

Services (for investors)

  • Investment screening and due diligence
  • Fund structuring and capital deployment models
  • Portfolio monitoring support (collection and/or verification of operational data for risk management)
  • Technical assistance and support for investors and lenders
  • Impact evaluation, monitoring and reporting

Uniqueness

  • Extensive primary data availability (especially site and demographic data in rural energy access and resource usage baseline data across several manufacturing industries)
  • Comprehensive tool-kits for creating performance and impact forecasts
  • Strong network linkages across ecosystem (including technology providers, investors and catalysts)

Smart Resource Efficiency

Clients

  • Manufacturers that are aiming to reduce usage of resources while also focusing on increased productivity
  • Investors looking to leverage Resource Efficiency as an edge in their portfolio companies
  • Technology providers with cutting edge resource efficiency solutions

Inter-disciplinary approach

Combines operational experience in several industries along with knowledge of latest innovative technologies, commercial linkages and investor requirements.

Footprint

India, Sri-Lanka, Bangladesh, Turkey, China

Illustrative case scenarios

  • Case Study: Supporting Global Clothing and Textile Majors in Sustainable Water and Resources Management across the Supply Chain
  • Case Study: Developing and operationalizing an organization-wide Sustainability program for an India based manufacturing group to reduce resource cost as well as delivery times
  • Case Study: Supporting a global investor in building a green portfolio of small and medium enterprises in different sectors (including textile and pharmaceuticals) in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia

Services offered include

  • Resource baselining for energy, water, chemical usage and waste
  • Energy-Carbon-GHG accounting
  • Performance benchmarking
  • Techno-commercial feasibility of energy-water-waste solutions
  • Goal setting and operational implementation with on-site support
  • Vendor selection support
  • Productivity optimization using tools such as lean
  • Systems for environmental management (EMS) and resource tracking
  • Sustainability reporting (GRI, ESG, CDP, etc.)
  • Financial linkages for long term projects

Uniqueness

  • Data driven approach that uses measurement systems
  • Proven change management processes to ensure team alignment
  • Access to cutting edge and latest technologies
  • New management tools developed for resource efficiency such as Value Added Resources

Sustainable Materials

Clients

Retailers and manufacturers looking to develop sustainable products or looking to differentiate their products in the market.

Inter-disciplinary approach

Brings together our understanding of product design, production processes, market assessment and consumption / application.

Footprint

India, Bangladesh

Illustrative case scenarios

  • Case Study: Developing a product differentiation strategy for a manufacturer who had developed a synthetic fibre based polymer product line
  • Case Study: Creation of Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) Working Group which works closely with manufacturing clusters in the Textiles and Garment Industry to identify the prevalence of hazardous chemicals in the manufacturing processes and plan for their elimination

Services offered include

  • Sustainable product design
  • Value chain mapping and assessment of product
  • Market research for sustainable products
  • Facilitating product creation workshops with customers and the value chain
  • Products Life Cycle Assessments

Uniqueness

  • Proprietary RaCE framework for Sustainable product design
  • Cradle-to-cradle view on Sustainable products
  • Leverages internal databases developed on materials, processes and technologies
  • Product design evaluation carried out with an in-house developed customer centric evaluation approach