// Economics & delivery
Economics
and delivery.
How the cost comes out at the design stage, how long each stage takes against a conventional scheme, and what the company does at all three stages — design, construction and operation.
The cost comes out at the design stage, not on site.
Four decisions, taken before anything is built, account for the difference. Each one removes a structure or a system that a conventional scheme has to design, construct, maintain and staff.
Operating costs fall with them: modular, standardised equipment is what a small hydropower plant is maintained and staffed against across its whole life cycle.
for a conventional design
Design in up to 1 year. Payback in 3 to 6.
Delivery timeline and payback — the proposed approach against a conventional approach for the same site. All six bars are drawn on one axis, 0 to 15 years, so the two approaches can be read against each other rather than each against itself.
Design
1 Design — up to 1 year, depending on watercourse conditions at the site; excluding the time taken by technical review.
Construction
2 Construction — 1 to 3 years, depending on watercourse conditions and the size of the site.
Payback
3 Payback — 3 to 6 years, depending on the hydrological conditions of the site and the capacity generated (against 10 to 15 years with conventional design).
Design, construction and operation — all three stages in one company
The company specialises in the design, construction and operation of small hydropower plants. The objective is set across the whole life cycle, not at handover.
Lower cost of ownership
Across the whole life cycle — design and operation — and higher reliability of small hydropower plants.
Affordable hydropower
For the private consumer.
Technology reference
The company’s delivered track record is in refining: four plants and +14 M t/year of crude-processing capacity built on MRUS technology — Multifractional Separation of Crude Hydrocarbons. The hydropower stream applies the same discipline to a different asset class.
Four steps to a commissioned plant
The approach is ready to be applied to specific watercourses. The sequence above is what that takes; the three inputs below are what a site-specific proposal needs before it can be written.
List of sites
Hydrological data
Target capacity
The company is ready to discuss the parameters of a specific site and watercourse.
Send the three inputsSend a site, get an assessment
The company is ready to discuss the parameters of a specific site and watercourse. A detailed proposal needs three things: the list of sites and their locations, the hydrological data — flows and levels of the watercourse — and the target capacity with its consumption profile.