optimising the value to your organisation
The Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) represents a significant long-term opportunity to fund PV schemes, develop your housing stock as valuable assets and meet corporate goals around fuel poverty and the environment. Even with changes to the FiT announced in October 2011, the cost saving to tenants still exists. PV will still help to improve fuel poverty within social housing, but the schemes that can be developed will have a lower ROI. To get the best from the FiT requires accurate stock assessment, good specification, competitive procurement and careful implementation.
Sustain and its partners provides independent professional advisory, planning and management services, allowing you to understand the true costs and benefits of the scheme, developing and delivering a realistic and achievable programme which will deliver value to all your stakeholders.
To develop your programme, we provide the following services:
programme appraisals
The outcome of the appraisal is a set of recommendations
to key stakeholders to shape the detailed planning stage. We will
carry out the following services, as required:
Mapping your stock for solar potential, assessing the different stakeholders and their needs, the technical performance of the equipment, assessing planning requirements, the financial constraints and opportunities available, modelling the effects of planned degressions, supply chain issues and the different business models available to you and the various suppliers.
programme planning
The outcome of the planning phase is an investment-grade
plan which will put the programme together, bring the different
parties together and provide a risk-managed view of the future. We
will carry out the following services, as required:
Developing robust stakeholder management plans, detailed project/ programme management plans, preparing tenders and supplier selection, liaising with the relevant planning authorities and network operators, identifying the key risks and developing mitigation strategies, designing the right business model for implementing and running the programme, developing the appropriate legal and financial structures in association with our partners, identifying procurement vehicles for reducing costs.
programme management
Working on your side to ensure the programme meets all its
success criteria, including the management of budgets, meeting
planning requirements, quality control issues, stakeholder liaison
including with tenants, health and safety including CDM, and
post-completion assurance through technical monitoring.
what are the costs?
To realise optimum return on investment will require
some upfront investment to make the right choice.
We would structure the costs against the three stages in delivering the programme. Each stage would be costed out separately, customised to meet your needs.
We can also provide ongoing real-time monitoring of the performance of the asset.
what is the next step?
Call us to talk about your needs and current situation. We
are independent of any developer and so will not push a particular
scheme at you, rather it is about developing a programme that meets
your needs.
what our RSL clients say
"The PV report provided by Sustain was in a clear useable format, easy to understand and developed logically which provided a sound basis for the investment proposal and decision making by the board." Scott Kay Head of Property Services, Golding Homes.
Case study - Installation of solar PV for residents of Islington Council
Since November 2007, we have managed a funded scheme for Islington Council to encourage the uptake of micro-generation and energy efficiency technologies in private housing. The scheme is part of Islington Council's Climate Change Fund programme to raise awareness of these technologies, help tackle fuel poverty, reduce householder fuel bills and to save carbon.
