Assessing customers sustainable renewable energy and back-up power needs based on current electricity consumption usage patterns, maximum demand and cost resulting from the different tariff structures in the various areas of grid supply
Highlights of what we
Do and Deliver
- Providing reliable and tested Customer investment decision-making key performance indicators (KPIs) for sustainable solar PV renewable energy options
- Advising Customer’s on how to:
- best save electricity costs in the medium term (typically in less than 5 years)
- be less dependent on the electricity supply from the grid by designing grid-tie and hybrid (with energy storage and/or standby generation) solar PV solutions for their premises
- Delivering best suited and dimensioned turnkey solar PV EPC solutions
- Calculating best possible Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) tariffs & Rent-to-Own (RTO) Terms & Conditions
- Offering PPAs and RTOs in association with funding partners
RDS Energy Economics
Services
RDS Energy Economics offers a full-range of consultancy services as well as quality design and engineering for solar PV power supply solutions to both local enterprise (commercial and industrial sectors) and international utility scale customers. Consultancy services include:
Customer Assessment
Assessing customers back-up power and sustainable renewable energy and back-up power needs based on current electricity consumption usage patterns, maximum demand and cost based on the various prevailing tariff structures;
- Reverse engineering raw billing data into useful design information; and
- Analysing available check metering data to fully understand daily electricity consumption patterns.
Designing and Engineering
Designing and engineering solar PV grid-tie and hybrid (with energy storage and/or standby generation) systems to meet customer back-up power and alternative sustainable energy requirements:
- Ground mount, carport and rooftop solar PV applications;
- Making use of Tier 1 OEM equipment with online monitoring for best long-term performance; and
- Comprehensive Bill of Materials compiled for each proposed solution.
Technical & Financial Consulting
Advising customers on the best technical and financial solutions to promote viable and attractive capital investments in solar PV systems:
- Project capital costing, cost of funding (if applicable), incentives to invest in renewable energy, ongoing operating & maintenance expenses, future plant refurbishment costs, nett cash savings, payback period and internal rate of return (IRR) metrics all included; and
- Extensive graphical representation of all financial results presented to the Customer in a comprehensive report.
Procurement
Procuring, constructing, project management, commissioning and hand-over (together with ongoing operations and maintenance service level agreements) of the optimal customer solution; and
Execution
Executing long-term solar PV energy production projections and associated energy economics studies;
- HelioScope and PVSyst energy harvest studies;
- Calculating average solar PV energy production profiles per month; and
- Determining the value of the solar PV energy produced that will reduce Customer energy consumption from the grid.
Financed Solutions
Developing financially viable power purchase agreement tariffs or rent-to-own option terms and conditions when third party supply of renewable energy to the customer or financed solutions are preferred. These options ensure that Customers’ always pay less for electricity when compared to the rising cost of grid supplied energy
About
The Director
RDS Energy Economics is a new consultancy business that will leverage the skills of the Director together with his network of highly skilled and experienced associates to best assess customer requirements and design the most financially viable renewable energy embedded generation facilities.
For the most significant portion of his 31 year professional career Dave Smith has been responsible for electricity supply and telecommunications service delivery infrastructure creation, from micro distribution to wholesale transmission (up to voltages of 765 kilovolts) at national utility scale. Most recently he has been responsible for the design, engineering and development of a multitude of renewable energy (solar photovoltaic) energy generation and energy storage delivery systems.
He has held executive leadership positions during his career and has extensive experience in strategy formulation, business planning, general management, large-scale electricity delivery and telecommunications infrastructure creation, real time operations and maintenance, service provisioning, execution, organisational and business development. Business leadership assignments during Dave’s career include serving as a Board member of various telecommunications ventures. As a Chief Executive Officer he was tasked by Government with the start-up of a new national and international wholesale telecommunications operation, from concept to the successful commercial launch phase of the company.
Dave has managed numerous equity sale transactions and was responsible for financial planning and management, commercial negotiating, legal contracting, deal structuring and critical project funding. He has significant experience in business case preparation, financial modelling, capital investment decision-making models, technical network planning and project engineering.
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Office: 011 465 5141
Mobile: 082 551 9650
1 Drennin Drive
Lonehill, Johannesburg, 2062
Box 683
Lonehill, Johannesburg, 2062