PwC is ready to help you succeed in BESS projects in the Czech Republic
BESS project advisory
What do we offer?
End-to-end advisory services across the entire lifecycle of BESS projects – from the business case and financing structure to route-to-market approach and optimal revenue stacking strategy.
We provide complex services to our clients, which include the following:
Business case
- Energy markets forecasting
- Revenue potential estimation
- Financial model development
- Technical assumptions analysis
Financing
- Potential lenders identification & approaching
- Finance raising process management
- Technical configuration & revenue potential review
Route-to-market strategy
- Potential optimizers identification & approaching
- Commercial & financial aspects negotiation
Optimization
- Multi-market strategy for BESS development
- Process framework development & validation
Our services
- Business case
- Route-to-market strategy
- Financing
- Optimization
Business case
- Long-term forecast of energy markets across the EU based on a detailed fundamental model allowing for benchmarking of key assumptions in close collaboration with your team
- Estimation of revenue stacking potential from provision of ancillary services and trading in spot markets assuming BESS optimisation while respecting its technological parameters and constraints
- Preparation of a financial model capturing the revenue potential, individual CAPEX components as well as variable and fixed OPEX
- Estimation of investment return measures (e.g. IRR, net present value, etc.) based on the financial model and assumed financing structure
- Technical Assumption Analysis:
- Evaluation of risks and constraints impacting technical feasibility, also focusing on locational factors and individual configuration of the BESS
- Analysis of the project vis-à-vis the site, grid connection, your strategy for the asset, budget and the co-located renewable energy power plant (if relevant)
Benefit for you: a comprehensive, scenario-based benchmarking and assessment that defines the optimal technical configuration and commercial potential of your BESS project—aligned with your business case, route-tomarket strategy and financing structure, and resilient to evolving energy markets.
Route-to-market strategy
- Assistance with identifying and approaching potential optimisers (or aggregators), who operate the BESS in energy markets in accordance with optimisation agreements (e.g. to maximise revenues or manage risks)
- Assistance with negotiating commercial and financial aspects of optimisation agreements, including revenue share, revenue floors and / or fixed fees (i.e. tolling structures)
- Assistance with verifying that the negotiated optimisation agreement aligns with the BESS’s technical parameters and configuration, the EPC contractor’s warranty terms, and your preferences regarding degradation over the BESS’s lifetime
Benefit for you: alignment of the route-to-market strategy with the business case, technical configuration, financing structure and your preferences.
Financing
- Assistance to BESS project investors with approaching co-investors lenders, managing the finance raising process (including coordination of due diligence), assessing available financing structures, negotiating financing terms and documentation and achieving financial close
- Assistance to BESS project lenders for the credit committee purposes with reviewing technical configuration and revenue potential of individual projects as well as drafts of the related optimisation agreements from commercial and financial perspective
Benefit for you: efficient finance raising process tailormade to individual BESS projects with best available terms and well-thought risk mitigation measures.
Optimization
- Comprehensive advice on how to market your BESS in the optimal way based on our experience in developing multi-market strategies that bundle revenue streams from different markets
- Development and validation of a process framework and conceptualisation and planning of IT infrastructure to optimize BESS performance and enable energy trading under the envisaged operating model
Benefit for you: optimisation of BESS operations and trading capabilities through an integrated process and IT framework, ensuring seamless alignment with your envisaged operating model and strategic objectives.
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