In short
Renewable Labs translates the pathways of decarbonisation into evidence-led guidance:
quantified, sequenced, costed. Clients use the analysis to defend investments, set tariffs,
win licences and shape policy. Engagements run from technical due diligence and LCOE work
through storage dispatch modelling, resource planning, utility rate design and
consumer-side optimisation. The initial scoping call is free, first deliverables are
fixed-fee, and ongoing modelling moves to a retainer. Cyprus is our home market and we
work across the wider region.
Built for
Utilities Developers Investors Regulators Policy-makers
How it runs
What does an energy advisory engagement actually cover?
An advisory engagement is a decision-support exercise, not a report-writing exercise, and
it is scoped backwards from the decision you have to make. It opens with a scoping call
that establishes what is being decided, by whom, and against what deadline: an investment
committee date, a tariff filing, a licence application, a board paper. That determines
what has to be quantified and to what confidence. From there the work is a model, meaning
an explicit set of assumptions, sourced and written down, run against the question. What
comes back is not a recommendation floating free of its inputs but a set of numbers you
can interrogate, with the sensitivities that matter identified and the ones that do not
set aside. Where the answer is genuinely uncertain we say so and quantify the
uncertainty, because a decision taken on a false precision is worse than a decision taken
on an honest range.
01 · Scope
The decision comes first
A free initial scoping call establishes what is being decided, by whom, and against what deadline. That fixes the boundary of the work: what has to be modelled, what can be assumed, and what would be over-engineering for the decision actually in front of you.
02 · Assumptions
Written down, not buried
Every input is stated and sourced before anything is computed. Assumptions are where advisory work quietly goes wrong, and a model whose assumptions you cannot read is a model you cannot defend to an investment committee, a lender, or a regulator.
03 · Model
Built for the question asked
Feasibility and LCOE, dispatch and revenue stacking, resource planning, or rate design: the method follows the question rather than the other way round. Sensitivities are run on the variables that actually move the answer, not on all of them.
04 · Deliverable
Something that survives being handed on
Depending on the engagement: a due-diligence report and risk register, a dispatch model plus memo, or a scenario set with a results dashboard and a presentation. The output is built to be read by someone who was not in the room for the analysis.
What we cover
Five advisory streams.
01
Project Development & Valuation
Technical due diligence
Feasibility & LCOE
Revenue analysis
Project management
02
Energy Storage Analysis
Dispatch & market optimisation
Storage-solar integration
Sizing studies
03
Resource Planning & Optimisation
Renewable integration
GHG abatement
DER forecasts
Electricity market bids
04
Utility Rate Design
TOU pricing
Demand charges
EV rates
Net energy metering design
05
Consumer Services
Load profiling Solar-on-site development Optimisation modelling Site surveys Sustainability reporting
Typical engagements
Which of these three engagements is yours?
Most of what we are asked for lands in one of three shapes. They differ in who the audience is, what has to be defended, and how long the analysis takes. Recognising which one you are actually asking for is usually the fastest route to a proposal.
Investor due diligence
An independent technical and financial review of a target asset or pipeline, for a buyer or a lender who needs a view that is not the seller's. Deliverable: a bank-grade due-diligence report and a risk register.
Analysis
2-4 weeks
Storage business case
A dispatch model and a revenue stack across arbitrage, capacity and reserves, with sensitivity to how the market is designed rather than how it is described. Deliverable: the model itself, plus a memo.
Analysis
3-6 weeks
Utility or policy modelling
Production-cost or capacity-expansion modelling against a stated decarbonisation target, for an organisation that has to defend the pathway publicly. Deliverable: a scenario set, a results dashboard, and a presentation.
Analysis
6-12 weeks
Those durations describe the analysis, not the calendar around it. They assume the data
arrives when it was promised, which is the single most common reason an advisory engagement
runs long.
The market
What makes the Cyprus market different to model?
Cyprus runs a small, isolated power system, and that single fact changes the arithmetic of
almost every energy question asked here. There is no neighbouring market to absorb a
midday surplus or to cover an evening ramp, so flexibility has to be found inside the
island. High solar penetration on a system that size produces the classic duck-curve
shape: net load pushed down hard through the middle of the day, then a steep ramp into the
evening peak as solar falls away. The consequences follow directly. Curtailment stops
being a theoretical risk and becomes a line in the revenue model. Storage stops being
valued on the capacity it holds and starts being valued on the flexibility it provides.
Rate design stops being a billing question and becomes one of the few levers that can move
demand into the hours when there is surplus generation. A model imported unchanged from a
large interconnected market will get all four of those wrong.
We have been writing about these dynamics since well before they became commercially
urgent, and the analysis behind the pieces below is the same analysis that sits inside
client engagements.
FAQ
What do clients ask before they commission?
Is the first conversation chargeable?
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No. The initial scoping call is free. Its purpose is to establish whether there is a well-formed question here and, if there is, what it would take to answer it properly. If the conclusion is that you do not need the engagement you thought you needed, that is a useful outcome of the call rather than a failed sale.
How is advisory work priced?
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We typically scope on a fixed-fee basis for the first deliverable, then move to a retainer for ongoing modelling and decision support. Fixed fee first means the scope has to be pinned down before any work starts, which is a discipline for both sides: you know what you are buying, and we know what we are committing to.
Do you work outside Cyprus?
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Cyprus is our home market and we work across the wider region. The Cyprus grounding matters even for regional work. A small, isolated, high-solar system surfaces integration problems years before larger interconnected markets feel them, so the methods developed here tend to travel well.
Do we get the model, or just the report?
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It depends on the engagement. A storage business case is delivered as the dispatch model plus a memo, because the model is the thing you will keep re-running as prices and market rules change. Utility and policy work is delivered as a scenario set with a results dashboard and a presentation, because the audience is usually a committee rather than an analyst.
Who actually uses this analysis?
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Utilities, developers, investors, regulators and policy-makers. They use it to defend investments, set tariffs, win licences, and shape policy, which means the analysis has to survive cross-examination by someone with an incentive to find a hole in it. That is the standard the work is written to.
Does the advisory work connect to the field operations?
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Yes, deliberately. The same practice that models the transition also runs solar assets in Cyprus, so a feasibility study, a storage business case or a market forecast is grounded in how these systems actually behave once they are built, commissioned, soiled, curtailed and operating.