Consulting, Owner’s Engineering and Advisory Services
Fractal can support the full life cycle of an energy storage or hybrid project. From conception to operations, Fractal can define, optimize and support your efforts through budgeting, stakeholder, regulatory approval and interconnection.
CONSULTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES
Fractal provides the following consulting and advisory services for energy storage and hybrid projects:
- Storage / Storage + Storage / Wind + Storage / Microgrid Design and Analysis
- Energy Storage Feasibility Study
- Financial Model Development
- Technical and Financial Due Diligence
- Degradation Analysis
- Energy Storage Education
- Project / Investment Optimization
- Proposal and Grant Preparation
- Contract Structuring and Negotiations
- Warranty and Sizing Optimization
- RFP / RFQ Specifications Drafting
- Dispatch Optimization
- Energy Storage Roadmap Design
- RFP Evaluation and Scoring
- Risk and Sensitivity Analysis
- Market and Regulatory Analysis
- Control Code Design and Optimization
OWNER’S ENGINEERING SERVICES
Fractal provides the following owner's engineering services:
- Technical Review / Due Diligence
- Independent Engineering Report
- Factory Acceptance Testing Witness / Verification
- Construction Milestone Management
- Construction Walkthrough
- Site Acceptance Testing / Energization Witness and Verification
- Pre-Commissioning Walkthrough
- Technical Dispute Resolution
- Commissioning / Performance Testing Witness and Certification
- Quarterly or Annual Testing Review
- Project Management
- Pilot / Demo Project Installation
- System Layout / Equipment Specifications
- Decommissioning and Recycling Support
- Safety and First Responder Support
- Operations, Maintenance and Monitoring
- Power and Control Wiring / Raceways
- Grounding Plans / Materials Takeoff / BOM
- System Protection Design
- Project Construction / Installation Planning
- ES Integration Model Study
- Interconnection Studies / Agreements
- Load Flow / Short Circuit Study
- Maintenance, Commissioning, Safety Manuals
- Decommissioning or Repowering Planning
ADVISORY SERVICES
Fractal serves as trusted advisors to our clients in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructuring, joint ventures, capital raisings, recapitalizations, and other special situations.
- M&A Advisory
- Buy and Sell-Side Due Diligence
- Compile, Manage and Update VDR
- Coordinate Management Presentations
- Manage Phase 2 Due Diligence Workstreams
- Receive, Manage and Evaluate Binding Offers
- Asset Restructuring
- Prepare and Circulate Materials to Prospective Investors
- Create, Maintain, and Update Investor Q&A Log
- Coordinate Client Site Visits and Calls
- Participate and Support SPA Negotiation Process
- Receive, Manage and Evaluate Non-Binding Offers
- Prepare Phase 2 Process Letter and Financial Model
- Support Drafting of SPA with External Counsel
- Provide Experienced Energy Storage Advice and Recommendations
WE DESIGN SOLUTIONS AND SOLVE PROBLEMS
Fractal designs effective storage and hybrid systems to address a variety of operational and planning challenges:
- Transmission Fee Mitigation
- Fast Regulation
- Resource Adequacy Eligible Capacity
- RA / Capacity Obligation Mitigation
- Distribution Deferral
- Distributed Generation Strategy
- Remote Microgrid
- N-1 Contingency
- Island Grid (Smooth, Firm, Shape)
- Duck Curve / Evening Ramp
- Ancillary Services / Hedge
- Reliability Violations / RMR
- Pilot / Test-Bed Design
- RPS / Emission Reduction Goals
- Seasonal Peaky Load Profile
- C & I Demand Charge Mitigation
- High Inductive Load Support
- Congestion Relief / CRR Shaping
- Curtailment / Clipping / Backflow
- No-Wires Solutions
- Volt / Var / Power Factor Support
- Resource Aggregation
- Ramp Support / Ramp Rate Restriction