Offering: Engagement to initiate and frame project development, recommended for long-duration energy storage projects (pumped hydro, compressed air, flow batteries). This includes initial check-ins with key stakeholders (Traditional Owners, Planning & Approval Authorities, Commonwealth, State, & Local Governments, Peak Bodies, Community Groups) to assess project viability.

Outcomes:

• Early go/no-go assessment, success pathway identification, partnership mapping

• Initial engagements with key approval authorities to outline the approval process

• Key government meetings to establish market presence

Duration: Six-months

Case study:  Papua New Guinea hydro project (30MW run-of-river)

• Site visits and meetings with governmental ministries, parastatals, and Traditional Owners

• Technical review of project viability

• Identification of technical consultancies

• Engagement with multilateral development agencies

Project Partnership Management

Offering: Intensive engagement to identify, secure, and align partnerships, followed by light touch engagement and facilitation as needed. 

Duration: On-going

Outcomes:

·       Securing agreement in principle to project with key stakeholders

·       Avoidance of pitfalls, identification of regulatory on policy changes

·       Ongoing engagement with energy regulators, Commonwealth, State, and Local Government, Traditional Owners, Suppliers, Economic Development Authorities, Community Groups

Case Study: Offshore wind port partnerships

• Initial identification of key players in Victorian coastal ports, followed by periodic check-ins as needed

Case Study: Transit corridor selection

• Worked across multiple community groups to deliver the preferred alignment for a transit corridor

Offering: Initiation, facilitation, and securing of Traditional Owner consent

Duration: Six-months

Outcomes:

·       Arrangement of initial meetings with Traditional Owners

·       Facilitation of Agreement in Principle

·       Securing of consent

·       Management of Cultural Heritage Management Plan development

·       Coordination with key TO consultants, partners and trainings

Case Study: Budj Bim Research Partnership

• Initiated and negotiated a research contract, leading to ongoing access for data capture campaigns and on-country learning experiences

• Acquisition of multiple datasets that underpin multiple research projects

• Delivery of survey data for road and heritage centre design

Offering: Assessment and viability of technology in the Australian market, including market sizing, route-to-market pathways, and partnership identification

Duration: Draft report in six months

Outcomes:

·       Technology assessment (Readiness Level, Commercial viability)

·       Technology integration viability

·       Internal commercialisation and research capabilities

·       Commercialisation and research partner identification

·       Market viability and route to market

Case Study: Flywheel Energy Storage

• Broad technology assessment including characterisation within the energy storage sector

• Identification of lead research centres and industry competitors

• After facility evaluation and technology demonstration, an industrial research partnership was established
  

Offering: Representation of client interests in major infrastructure projects

Duration: FID to Commissioning

Outcomes:

·       Monthly project reports

·       Tracking of expenditure

·       Site monitoring and progress tracking

Case Study: Client Engineer for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

• Represented FAO interests across five World Bank loan packages ($1.3 Billion) in water supply and irrigation projects

• Monitored project execution and expenditures

• Conducted dam safety inspections

Offering: Securing corporate research and industrial partnerships

Duration: 3-5 months

Outcomes:

·       Sector assessment

·       Multiple partner identification

·       Recommendation on partners and their needs

·       Meeting facilitation and agreement negotiation

Case study: Establishment of an industrial supply partnership

• Identification of seawater developers and EPC’s leading to partner identification

• Facilitation of initial research scope leading to machinery re-design

• On-going supply of core machinery to a major sector EPC

Case Study: Corrosion research

·       Scan of marine research centres to identify multiply sites for global seawater corrosion comparison study

·       Secured sites in the Mediterranean and Pacific for multi-year seawater corrosion specimen deployment