Tailored to the challenges of renewable technologies, MEConsult offers holistic technical and financial assistance in the development of renewable energy projects. We are regarded as one of the pioneers of sector in Pakistan and enjoy a series of successful projects under our belt.
Our services portfolio provides a comprehensive set of offering to project developers and our team of expert professionals will assist you in every aspect of your renewable energy project.
Due to the stochastic nature of renewable resources, significant computations are necessary in order to “correctly” estimate the site’s generation potential. Our trained staff, using state-of-the-art software, is fully capable of quantifying renewable resource of your project prospect site.
Based on the resource assessment, terrain data and project specification of your site, optimum technology and equipment selection can be carried out – optimizing energy generation whilst minimizing the capital requirements.
Hybrid Energy system are enabling developers to maximize their asset utilization and minimize operational expenses. Hybridization of Wind and Solar power plants provide a complimentary solution to increase the capacity utilization of your electrical BOP. We offer technical and financial consultation to prospective hybrid projects.
Due to significant investment risks and liabilities entailing a renewable energy project, extreme caution is required in determining the financial health and technical soundness of the project. We offer detailed financial and technical due diligence studies to our prospect clients.
MEConsult has a proven track record of successfully negotiating EPC and O&M Contracts for our clients. We can aid you in:
Furthermore, additional services may be offered based on the requirements of the project. Kindly contact us for any further query.
Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) is written document defining the terms of long-term power purchase between two or more parties. Properly executed PPA is the linchpin of any successful power project, and clearly defines & outlines the contractual obligations between the Power Producer & Off-Taker(s). Moreover, indeterministic nature of renewable resources demand significant risk mitigation strategy to be incorporated in to the PPA, shielding the project owner from unwanted exposure during operations of the plant.
MEConsult’s corporate capabilities are fully aligned in providing our clients with advisory services in the realm of Power Purchase Agreements and other ancillary services.
Correctly determining the price of generation help the developers recover their construction and operations cost plus a reasonable return-on-equity. Not only that, properly setting the generation tariff ensures country’s economic growth and secures future investment in the sector ensuring continuity of supply.
Under the current regulatory regime, different modes of tariffs are acceptable based on technology and preferential governmental policies prevalent at the time. Therefore, detailed consideration at the modelling stage is paramount in ensuring the financial health of the project.
Governing and Regulatory Policies of a market are highly dynamic in nature, adapting to the thrust of market and to the needs-of-the-hour. Globally, the on-set of renewable energy into the grid is forcing policymakers to formulate “favorable” regulatory structure for RE induction; Pakistan is no exception. RE is a pivotal part of future generation plan and is deemed as “preferential” mode of energy generation in the country.
MEConsult’s comprehensive knowledge and management helps its clientele to stay at par with new trends in the energy market and develop their projects effectively under the prevalent regulations.
MEConsult operates with a multi-dimensional approach facilitating our clients to capitalize on our intellectual and technical resources to mitigate project’s technical, financial, environmental and regulatory risks. We are proven to be effective in serving our clients in the role of Owner’s Engineers during Project Development, Engineering and Design, Construction, Commissioning, Operations, and Maintenance.
We operate independent of any influence - in line with our ethos - and serve our clients to the best of our abilities.
Lenders are the significant stakeholder during the development of a power project. MEConsult is cognizant of the needs of our clients and has a proven track-record of assisting national and international lending institutions in their ventures in the power generation sector. Our decades of experience helps us to formulate the best strategy to mitigate the project risk for our clients. We ensure quality and timely implementation of the projects and provide holistic technical support and services in the role of Lender’s Engineer.
Post-COD optimizations are as important, if not more, than the optimizations during development phase. And, proposes a great opportunity for improvements for our clients. We can highlight areas of improvement in your up and running power plants and devise strategies to maximize energy generation.
Economic and Financial studies are the key instrument during pre-investment stages to ensure project worthiness. And, provide a tool to quantify the financial benefits envisaged by the developer and its economic benefits to the host country.
MEConsult provided services helps its clients to foresee the trends in the energy market, selecting the correct technology for maximum profitability, quantifying and mitigating the risks, and establishing baseline of facts for developers, investors and lenders in assessing the financial soundness of the project.
MEConsult offers holistic project consulting and business development for power transmission projects. We understand the needs of the client and based on our extensive experiences; our portfolio of services exhaustively covers all the aspects of transmission project development from inception till operations.
Our team of engineers and relevant experts are fully capable of performing overall design and engineering of transmission networks. We have significant national and international experience under this caption. Our team using state-of-the-art design and engineering software is fully trained to undertake such assignments.
Grid-stations and sub-stations are essential components of a network and are responsible for the inter-connection between different networks of varying voltage levels. Meticulous design is essential for safe and reliable operations under national and international standards and codes. MEConsult offers complete grid-station and sub-station design and engineering services. Kindly contact us for more details.
MEConsult offers a systematic and objective-based project evaluation for on-going and completed projects to our clients. We aim to determine the relevance, level of achievement of project objectives, development efficacy, project efficiency, impact and sustainability.
Properly executed evaluations enable effective management of capital, human and technical resources – aligning the project towards sustainable development. Not only our evaluations provide an extensive insight to project developers but also offers an outlook for the decision-makers and stakeholders for the upcoming projects.
Due to significant investment risks and liabilities entailing transmission project, extreme caution is required in determining the financial health and technical soundness of the project. We offer detailed financial and technical due diligence studies to our prospect clients.
MEConsult has a proven track record of successfully negotiating EPC and O&M Contracts for our clients. We can aid you in:
Furthermore, additional services may be offered based on the requirements of the project. Kindly contact us for any further query.
Economic and Financial studies are the key instrument during pre-investment stages to ensure project worthiness. And, provide a tool to quantify the financial benefits envisaged by the developer and its economic benefits to the host country.
MEConsult provided services helps its clients to foresee the trends in the energy market, selecting the correct technology for maximum profitability, quantifying and mitigating the risks, and establishing baseline of facts for developers, investors and lenders in assessing the financial soundness of the project.
Correctly determining the price of transmission help the developers recover their construction and operations cost plus a reasonable return-on-equity. Not only that, properly setting the transmission tariff ensures country’s economic growth and secures future investment in the sector ensuring continuity of supply. MEConsult offers detailed tariff modelling services in the ambit of energy associated sectors. Contact us to find more.
MEConsult operates with a multi-dimensional approach facilitating our clients to capitalize on our intellectual and technical resources to mitigate project’s technical, financial, environmental and regulatory risks. We are proven to be effective in serving our clients in the role of Owner’s Engineers during Project Development, Engineering and Design, Construction, Commissioning, Operations, and Maintenance.
We operate independent of any influence - in line with our ethos - and serve our clients to the best of our abilities.
Lenders are the significant stakeholder during the development of a power project. MEConsult is cognizant of the needs of our clients and has a proven track-record of assisting national and international lending institutions in their ventures in the power generation sector. Our decades of experience helps us to formulate the best strategy to mitigate the project risk for our clients. We ensure quality and timely implementation of the projects and provide holistic technical support and services in the role of Lender’s Engineer.
MEConsult offers holistic project consulting and business development for power distribution projects. We understand the needs of the client and based on our extensive experiences; our portfolio of services exhaustively covers all the aspects of power distribution project development from inception till operations.
Our team of engineers and relevant experts are fully capable of performing overall design and engineering of transmission networks. We have significant national and international experience under this caption. Our team using state-of-the-art design and engineering software is fully trained to undertake such assignments.
Sub-stations are the essential components of a network and are responsible for the inter-connection between different networks of varying voltage levels. Meticulous design is essential for safe and reliable operations under national and international standards and codes. MEConsult offers complete sub-station design and engineering services. Kindly contact us for more details.
MEConsult offers a systematic and objective-based project evaluation for on-going and completed projects to our clients. We aim to determine the relevance, level of achievement of project objectives, development efficacy, project efficiency, impact and sustainability.
Properly executed evaluations enable effective management of capital, human and technical resources – aligning the project towards sustainable development. Not only our evaluations provide an extensive insight to project developers but also offers an outlook for the decision-makers and stakeholders for the upcoming projects.
Due to significant investment risks and liabilities entailing transmission project, extreme caution is required in determining the financial health and technical soundness of the project. We offer detailed financial and technical due diligence studies to our prospect clients.
MEConsult has a proven track record of successfully negotiating EPC and O&M Contracts for our clients. We can aid you in:
Furthermore, additional services may be offered based on the requirements of the project. Kindly contact us for any further query.
Economic and Financial studies are the key instrument during pre-investment stages to ensure project worthiness. And, provide a tool to quantify the financial benefits envisaged by the developer and its economic benefits to the host country.
MEConsult provided services helps its clients to foresee the trends in the energy market, selecting the correct technology for maximum profitability, quantifying and mitigating the risks, and establishing baseline of facts for developers, investors and lenders in assessing the financial soundness of the project.
Correctly determining the price of distribution help the developers recover their construction and operations cost plus a reasonable return-on-equity. Not only that, properly setting the distribution tariff ensures country’s economic growth and secures future investment in the sector ensuring continuity of supply. MEConsult offers detailed tariff modelling services in the ambit of energy associated sectors. Contact us to find more.
MEConsult operates with a multi-dimensional approach facilitating our clients to capitalize on our intellectual and technical resources to mitigate project’s technical, financial, environmental and regulatory risks. We are proven to be effective in serving our clients in the role of Owner’s Engineers during Project Development, Engineering and Design, Construction, Commissioning, Operations, and Maintenance.
We operate independent of any influence - in line with our ethos - and serve our clients to the best of our abilities.
Lenders are the significant stakeholder during the development of a power project. MEConsult is cognizant of the needs of our clients and has a proven track-record of assisting national and international lending institutions in their ventures in the power generation sector. Our decades of experience helps us to formulate the best strategy to mitigate the project risk for our clients. We ensure quality and timely implementation of the projects and provide holistic technical support and services in the role of Lender’s Engineer.
Mini/Micro grids are disruptive technologies for the conventional electrical grids worldwide. Mostly powered by renewable energy with some arrangement for energy storage, mini/micro grids enable dispatch of electricity to far-flung and isolated areas where it is economically unfeasible to deploy conventional energy infrastructures. Not only that, Mini/Micro grids are capable of interacting with the existing grid enabling better reliability to the consumer, but mostly operate independently as a single controllable entity.
Our detailed analysis on the subject of “Access to Electricity” and its economic impacts, evidently concludes that “Electricity is a significant stimulus to improve people standard of living”. With almost 700million people globally having no access to electricity and many more having unreliable access – mini/micro grids propose a valid solution enabling improved access to electricity as envisaged under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
MEConsult realizing the importance of mini/micro grids, has invested heavily in acquiring host of technical capabilities in successfully deploying mini/microgrids, best suited for your application.
Contact us for more details.
In some cases, the economics and/or technical aspects do not justify the deployment of utility infrastructure to certain areas. Recently, off-grid solution powered by readily available renewable energy has emerged as a primary and complementary mode of expanding access to energy services. With 700 million people currently off the grid, off-grid infrastructure promises reliable, clean and affordable energy solutions to host of residential, commercial, public and industrial applications. Key areas of deployment of off-grid infrastructure may include:
MEConsult offers holistic consulting and engineering services to address your off-grid energy needs. Get in touch with us.
Hybrid Energy Infrastructure are characterized by their ability to supply energy from multiple modes of generation. With constantly reducing costs of renewable energy, modern hybrid energy are supplemented by some form of renewable energy. Moreover, hybridization can also be used to improve Capacity Utilization Factors of existing renewable infrastructure, as in the case of Wind and Solar Energy. Furthermore, hybridization also enables developers to reduce the cost of supply by supplementing existing costly generations with cheap sources of energy.
MEConsult corporate capabilities are fully aligned with providing our clients with best solutions in the realm energy technologies. MEConsult offers comprehensive Technical and Financial Services to our clients - tailor-made to their specific requirements.
Get in touch with us to find out more.
Cogeneration, or the simultaneous production of electricity and process heat from the same fuel source, is an alternative power supply option available to industry (and to large commercial buildings) which can improve supply reliability, increase energy utilization efficiency, and reduce energy costs.
In general terms, the potential benefits of industrial cogeneration are widely recognized and include:
Configurations are based on the type of prime movers utilized to meet a specific power-to heat ratio. Some of the more common types of configurations are as follows:
Feasibility and Detailed Design studies for power generation and its alternate options, such as cogeneration, are an integral part of MEConsult's front-line activity areas. Under this caption, studies have been carried out ranging from large scale community development projects to industrial installations for dedicated use. The company has also carried out a macro level study on power generation potential in Pakistan which study can provide firm inputs to entrepreneurs in this direction.
The common critical resource of all industries is energy - whether it be oil, gas, or electricity. Increased efficiencies in energy use are the quickest and most economical method for reducing costs and increasing profitability.
Total Energy Management (TEM) is more than just a new name for energy conservation. TEM is an integrated approach developed over the last decade which studies have shown can save much more than the traditional "energy survey" approach. Where the one-time energy survey can reduce energy costs 8-10% through implementation of no cost/low cost measures and another 10-12% through capital improvements, on-going Total Energy Management programs have been shown to save as much as 25-30%.
TEM benefits industry by:
MEConsult, during the course of the ENERCON Program, have pioneered its application in Pakistan with integrated packages delivered to a broad spectrum of the industry including textile, jute, sugar, glass, foundry, ghee, and rubber units. Savings potential identified following implementation of low cost/no cost and capital-intensive measures have accounted for 10 to 15 per cent of total energy costs.
Energy costs may seem small in comparison with total production and operating costs. But, in money terms, and in relation to profits, energy costs can be substantial. Energy accounting is the first step in usefully identifying and controlling energy costs to improve profitability.
Energy accounting is a disciplined management activity combining systematic procedures for monitoring and documenting energy consumption, with a planned approach for improvement of overall energy efficiency. By management's diligent use of Energy Accounting methods, short- and long-term changes in energy costs and efficiencies can be identified, whether they be caused by direct efforts to improve energy efficiency, or by inadvertent increases in energy usages. As is true for financial accounting methods, Energy Accounting methods only supply information to management - management must evaluate and act as required, to obtain the desired benefits.
Since the two primary criteria for an ECO are that it be easy to implement and that its payback be short, ease of implementation and payback period have been used to classify ECO's into three general categories: housekeeping measures, process improvement projects, and large capital projects.
Housekeeping ECO's, also referred to as operations and maintenance ECO's, include a broad category of measures that should really be part of ongoing plant maintenance programs. Usually, these are low cost measures with rapid payback. Sometimes, however, if the energy savings are small, the payback can be high, even if the initial cost is low. Typically included in this category of measures are: repair of leaks of all sorts, maintenance of optimum combustion efficiency, maintenance of pipe and equipment insulation, maintenance and repair of steam traps, and often, steam condensate return.
Typical process improvement projects in Pakistan require from Rs 100,000 up to Rs 1,000,000, although for some plants they may exceed several million rupees. Their payback are normally not much more than 2 or 3 years, since they incorporate mainly locally manufactured equipment. Many heat exchangers and economizers fall into this category; some condensate return systems, power factor improvement systems, automatic combustion control systems, and new high efficiency lighting systems also belong to this category. Longer payback items in this category include imported high-efficiency motors and variable speed AC motor drives.
Major replacement projects include purchase of new production or auxiliary equipment. They may range from a few million to more than 100 million rupees. Their payback also tend to be longer, and they require more detailed financial analysis. They often involve import of large process-specific equipment or equipment with elaborate controls. Often these projects cannot be justified on energy savings alone; increases in production quality or capacity must also be figured into the financial analysis. In addition to process equipment, new boilers and cogeneration equipment fall into this category.
Energy conservation opportunities related to improvements of the building envelope are generally easy to identify, but difficult to quantify in terms of potential savings. The reason for this is that buildings are dynamic structures, experiencing transient rather than steady-state heat flows.
The large thermal mass of most construction types in Pakistan (e.g., heavy masonry or concrete walls and roof decks) create a thermal lag in the transfer of heat between the outdoors and indoors. Tests conducted have indicated that the peak inside ceiling temperature may occur 4 hours or more after the peak outdoor temperature has been reached. An additional problem occurs in trying to estimate savings through reduction in infiltration or exfiltration. These sources of energy waste depend heavily on prevailing wind direction and are variable from moment to moment.
The general approach in the estimation of energy savings potential is through the use of computer building energy load simulation models. These models rely on detailed meteorological data and a fairly complex description of the building under consideration, including its dimensions, orientation, materials of construction, placement of windows in the building shell, interactions with the building's surroundings, and a number of other factors. The building simulation models allow the impact of changes to one or more of the buildings construction details to be analyzed and compared to a base case. The computer simulation models carry out a complex series of calculations on an hourly basis to account for the various heat transfer mechanisms in the building and their interactions (e.g., building shell conduction, convection, and radiant heat transfer; solar heat gain through windows; heat transfer through infiltration, natural ventilation and mechanical ventilation; heat gains caused by the activities of building occupants; heat gains caused by the use of equipment in the building).
Low Cost Energy Conservation Opportunities
There are many energy conservation opportunities that can be implemented by simple changes in operating, maintenance, and administrative procedures. In conducting the preliminary energy survey, a number of these measures can be identified as follows:
MEConsult staff contributed to the National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority's (NEECA, formerly ENERCON) Building Energy Conservation Program, supporting energy efficiency and sustainability initiatives across its various phases. Among other things the staff was responsible for conducting infiltration tests utilizing methods that, as yet, have no parallels in the local energy consultancy domain. Further, they were involved in the monitoring of key building energy data with the objective of utilizing it in a Building Energy Simulation computer program DOE-2.
The company's extensive involvement in pioneering the application of energy conservation technology in Pakistan has considerably enhanced its outlook on current and futuristic scope of energy issues. Particularly, the relation of energy to environment is a subject that, besides its importance on a global scale, is significant enough to solicit the policy planner's concerted efforts in Pakistan. The issue needs to be resolved in the perspective of preserving the ecosystem in parallel with the enhanced industrialization program.
Reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and the chlorofluorocarbons must be the focus of any attempt to curb global warming. These gases account for around 90% of the enhancement of the greenhouse effect that has already occurred. In this context MEConsult has provided the lead in identifying opportunities for minimizing toxic waste emission to the atmosphere in consequence of some fundamental energy conservation measures. It is expected that through more efficient steam distribution in a typically moderate industry a gross content of 318,000 kg of carbon dioxide can be saved from being emitted to the atmosphere. On a nationwide basis the positive impact can be stupendous.
Another study conducted by MEConsult pertains to the impact of energy conservation on environmental protection. To mobilize efforts in this direction specific recommendations were made to ensure that energy conservation and environmental agencies coordinate in accomplishing mutual objectives, the government initiates user-friendly energy conservation program on the national level, and sufficient mandatory laws are formulated to restrict inept energy use.
In the specific field of design and management of environmental pollution control systems, the company is capable of providing technical services within the constituent areas as shown in the table overleaf.
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