Electricity Developers
In the world of electricity developers they say that if you have seen one microgrid then you have seen one microgrid.
Problem

Even as the industry is aiming for standardization and simplification, each electricity development process can come with its own set of complexities: be it particular technical difficulties and cost overruns or certain macro-economic and legislative aspects. In this context having a robust financial model for executing the project and stress testing various scenarios is critical for financing. Sapling Financial Consultants helps electricity developers to assess opportunities, secure new clients and projects, develop profitable projects, and raise capital from like-minded investors.

Solution

Our services focus on modelling microgrids projects at various levels, from a project model to a portfolio model, conducting model audits, or providing interim Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) services.

Project Models

When modelling a project, our clients often have to convince various parties – themselves, lenders, equity owners, and customers. Our models can be as granular as needed, often reaching hourly modelling of electricity usage.When modelling projects, we spend considerable amounts of time understanding the operations. While we won’t become engineers, we’ll hopefully impress you with our depth of knowledge. Our work may cover NPV, IRR and other metrics to just the developer and investors, or it can also show cost savings to customers based on rate order analysis.

Portfolio Models

Once our clients have a couple of sites under their belt, they often want to rinse, lather and repeat at scale. At this point, a solid portfolio model can be the difference between staying small and deploying from coast to coast. Our models have collectively raised billions of dollars, and have built credibility with numerous blue chip investors. Our portfolio models provide a high level of detail, but more importantly, they allow you to stress test key assumptions to show the impact on possibly dozens of sites instantly. They also accommodate complex equity waterfalls, cap tables, funding through a mix of debt and equity.

Model Audits

Often, we find that our clients are in need of a second opinion on an existing financial model. This model can be one that is internally developed, and given the size of the deal in question, our client wants assurance it is functioning properly. Other times, a third party (JV partner, developer, etc.) has developed a model, and our client wants an opinion on its reasonability. To properly audit the model, we understand the business, diagram the relationships between tabs, go line by line checking all the calculations in the model. Our work includes vetting model calculations, input values, and output feasibility, and providing a detailed audit report, including suggested model remedies to assist our clients with building the robust models they need.

Interim FP&A

Take Finance beyond bean counting, with FP&A services that drive insights into your business’s most important metrics. We provide an interim team member (Analyst through to Partner level) during times of bandwidth constraints, upon closing new deals, to drive new initiatives. Service offerings include building and updating reporting packs, conducting variance analysis and developing MD&A, building financial models, conducting ad hoc analysis, populating budget inputs, consulting with business leaders to gather inputs.

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What We Do
  • Financial Analysis - Financial Model Build
  • Financial Analysis - Investor Relations
  • Outsourced Buy-Side Modelling
  • Outsourced Modelling & FP&A - Interim FP&A
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