Capabilities
The following capabilities associated with distributed generation have been demonstrated by CPC:
- Project feasibility analysis
- Renewable resource assessment
- Community evaluation and selection
- Energy demand analysis and load profiling
- GPS mapping and GIS database analysis
- Customer willingness and ability-to-pay assessments
- Power system design, procurement, installation, operation and maintenance
- Design and establishment of Renewable Energy Service Companies (RESCO)
- Pricing design and implementation
- Development and implementation of RESCO energy service contracts
- Employee and customer training
- Revenue collection
- Product development
- Financial and economic modeling
- Business Plan preparation and Strategic Partner identification and recruitment
- Customer survey design and implementation, analysis of results and implementation of improvements
In addition, CPC and its associates provide consulting services to a wide variety of organizations that require new, sustainable solutions to the generation and delivery of electricity services. These organizations include:
Development finance institutions
Private sector developers
Community or industry-based cooperatives
Ecotourism developers, and
Agencies of national and local governments responsible for health, education, economic and social development, and infrastructure services
Business Strategy
Our objective is to achieve a position as the leading worldwide developer and supplier of biopower products for the distributed generation power market. Key elements of our strategy include the following:
· Exploit advantage of modularity, standardization and volume
· Develop products for high volume distributed generation combined heat and power market applications
· Provide biopower system products that are competitive on life-cycle cost basis with conventional distributed generation systems
· Manufacture in US + key countries off-shore
· Establish strategic alliances.
· Pursue a niche marketing strategy, focusing on the customers and end users that we know better than anyone else.
Product Mix
CPC applies the full range of renewable energy technology options (Biomass, PV, wind, and hybrids), but sized in power blocks typically less than 200 kW peak to best match the electrical service and financial needs of the application.