Zelya Energy

Leveraging our experience in financial assessment and business plan realization for the development and acquisition of biomass power plants and cogenerations, we have developed methods and tools for value creation and modeling specific to investments in this sector.

Our experts, specializing in M&A, project financing and private equity, assist you in:

  • Evaluating the cash-flows generated by investment;
  • Financial modeling and determination of investment profitability (Base Case; CMPC or WACC);
  • Defining the financing terms of your acquisition (debt-equity; investment terms).

Our services and assistance have been designed to provide expert and tailored support for all parties involved during transactions of projects, power plants or cogeneration from biomass resources.

Services and assistance

  • Review and verification of your business plan and financial projections (Base Case Model);
  • Developing a complete financial model and estimating the selling price of biomass power plants;
  • Analysis of economic profitability and financial viability of a cogeneration project from biomass resources;
  • Assisting with the definition of financial terms for acquisition or divestiture;
  • And customized advice...

Zelya Energy supports you in the implementation of your construction or replacement projects for biomass power plants and cogeneration.

We carry out for you the basic engineering work, project management and design of the installations.

  • Sizing of the biomass installation
  • Proposal of technical solutions and possible systems; Technico-financial analysis of the various selected solutions
  • PERT diagram and planning of development and construction phases of the plant
  • Writing of the technical specifications; Selection of suppliers and competition
  • Recommendations for the final choice of suppliers, project accompaniment and supervision

We also assist you in the authorization procedures, in the construction of the plant, as well as in the procedures for requesting and obtaining purchase prices.

France has chosen to promote electricity production from biomass, through tenders organized by the government.

In 2008, 22 projects with a cumulative power of 300 MW were thus able to benefit from preferential purchase rates and guarantees from the State for a period of 20 years. In December 2008, a new call for tenders was launched, for a total power of 250 MW...

Preparing your application

In this context, Zelya Energy supports project carriers wishing to apply and assists them in drawing up and defending a solid application in response to calls for tenders.

Development assistance

Once the tender has been won, we are able to effectively assist you in developing your power plant, until it becomes operational.

Our team helps you identify the local contacts you need to reach out to and carry out the many administrative procedures required: building permits, requests for connection to the electricity network, emphyteutic leases, formalizing contracts for the purchase of electricity...

At this stage, we can also help you with promoting your project to investors and proceed with raising the necessary capital for its development.

Whatever your ambitions, your projects or even your activity in the sector of electricity production or cogeneration (electricity and heat) from biomass, Zelya Energy facilitates and accelerates your development.

We mobilize all the necessary expertise in this market, thanks to our regulatory experts and our network of professionals and partners in Europe, Africa, Asia, as well as in North America.

We are able to :

  • provide you with analyses of the regulatory framework applicable to the development of power plants or boilers from biomass ;
  • assist you in the development of planning and development strategies for this type of energy in a region ;
  • develop tariff systems and policies to encourage the production of electricity or heat from biomass ;
  • analyze the viability and technical, regulatory and financial feasibility of a power plant or boiler project ;
  • support you in the constitution and defense of a response file to French biomass tenders.

Case Studies

  • Benchmark of the French, Italian, German and Spanish regulatory systems encouraging the production of electricity from biomass ;
  • Analysis of the conditions and principles of connection to the network ;
  • Comparative analysis of the profitability of biomass players and projects in Europe ;
  • State of the art and development prospects of decentralized energy production projects from biomass on a regional scale ;
  • Study on the conditions of application of buy-back tariffs for an electricity project for cogeneration from biomass.

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