Planning and Implementation Turning ideas into reality Duncan Kerridge Tim Brewer

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Planning and ImplementationTurning ideas into
realityDuncan KerridgeTim Brewer
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Select your project

• Consider
• natural resources - identify sites
• over-arching aims -
• efficiency, fuel poverty,
• empowerment, carbon reduction
• capabilities - skills, time, experience, funding
• build on success

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Feasibility study

• Shortlist best options
• Assess for
• resource
• costs
• capability
• outcomes
• Consider professional input to appraise options

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Develop project proposal
Outline main tasks Identify barriers and measures
required Rough cost estimates Sketch out project
plan
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Main areas

• Regulatory
• Legal
• Financial
• Management
• Technical

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Regulatory

• Planning permission
• Technical summary
• Impact assessment
• Significant time and cost
• Environment Agency - abstraction
• Building Control
• Environmental Health

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Legal

• Landowners
• leases - site, access
• Incorporation
• Contracts
• Construction
• O M
• Employment
• Power Purchase
• Network access
• Time, cost, and more time

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Financial

• Estimate and refine costs
• Choose your approach
• Find and apply for grants
• Approach banks financiers
• Draw up and issue shares
• Implications of cost, time, return and risk

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Insurance

• Construction
• Operation, loss of revenue
• Third party liability
• Employers liability

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Project Management

• Full time job - dont underestimate
• Overview
• Designate tasks
• CDM Regulations 1994
• Health Safety

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Technical - Preparation

• Specification and Design
• In House involvement
• Identify contractors/suppliers
• Tender document
• Award contracts
• Due Dilligence

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Technical - Implementation

• Construction
• Grid Connection
• Metering and Sales
• Commissioning
• Operation and maintenance

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Conclusions

• Pick your project well
• Identify skills required and find locally or
  contract out
• Build and maintain a support base
• Be prepared for a long haul