Internationalisation as a Service | Project Facilitation

From a site and a resource to a financed, built and operating plant.

One route that brings the developer, the technology and the project finance together. For project owners in emerging and reconstruction markets who have the site, the waste stream or the demand, and need the rest. TGE* screens the project, packages it to the standard financiers expect, and introduces it to an established international developer that designs, builds, finances and operates plants of this kind.

Part of Internationalisation as a Service. Independent facilitation: TGE* is not the developer’s agent, and the fit conversation carries no commitment.

The gap

The project is rarely the problem. The package is.

A municipality with a waste stream it pays to dispose of. An industrial site with land and strong sun. A mining operation with a stockpile of tyres. Each is the beginning of an energy project, and each usually stalls at the same point: there is no developer with a proven plant at the table, no capital to build it, and nobody to put the two together in the form financiers accept.

Equipment vendors sell plant but do not finance it. Financiers want a developer, a guarantee and an offtake agreement before they read the first page.

Project Facilitation is the third option: one route that brings the developer, the technology and the finance together, with a short piece of work at the front that tells you early whether the project fits.

The technologies

Proven technology, from a developer that builds and operates what it designs

Waste to energy

Plants that turn municipal and industrial waste into power, sized to the waste stream.

Solar

Utility scale solar power, on its own or combined with other generation where firm supply is needed.

Resource recovery

Plants that recover fuel and materials from waste streams such as end of life tyres.

The developer is an established international business with a long record of plants of this kind in emerging markets. It designs, builds, finances and operates what it delivers, and it is introduced by name once a project is ready for it.

What a project needs to qualify

Three conditions, tested first

Project finance of this kind goes to defined, one off projects with a named owner, not to national programmes, and not in every market. The conditions are the ones financiers expect:

A sovereign guarantee

Or an equivalent acceptable to the financiers, standing behind the project’s payment obligations.

A minimum offtake agreement

With a committed buyer for the power or other outputs; for waste projects, a committed waste supply as well.

A site, a resource and a permitting route

That can be evidenced.

A project that cannot meet the first two conditions is not a fit for this route, and the fit conversation establishes that early. It is not the right route when the ask is for equipment alone, for grant funding, or for a national programme rather than a project.

How it runs

From fit conversation to financial close

Step 1

Fit conversation

Thirty minutes. Whether the route fits, and what is missing.

Step 2

Readiness Review

A short, defined engagement that assembles your project pack to developer standard and ends in a written readiness view: proceed, fix first, or not a fit.

Step 3

Introduction

TGE* introduces a qualifying project to the developer, with the pack, and names the developer at that point.

Step 4

Feasibility study

Carried out by the developer and contracted directly between the developer and the project owner.

Step 5

Structuring and finance

The developer and the project owner agree the delivery and finance structure, with TGE* retained alongside the project owner through to financial close.

The Readiness Review is confirmed in writing before it starts and takes about four weeks. TGE* works with your team to assemble the pack: the owner and the site, the resource, the offtake, the guarantee route, permits and timeline. Everything after it moves at the pace of the project and the guarantee.

What TGE* is, and what it is not

An independent facilitator

Independent

TGE* is not the developer’s agent or representative and makes no commitments on its behalf. The developer’s decisions are its own.

Discreet

The developer is named only when a project is ready to be introduced, and your information is shared only for that purpose.

Honest about fit

If the project cannot meet the conditions, TGE* says so at the fit conversation rather than later.

Where this applies, and who does the work

Emerging and reconstruction markets, led by the principal

TGE* works where the need for waste, power and industrial capacity is greatest and the route to finance is hardest: emerging markets, and markets rebuilding after conflict. In Ukraine, TGE* is preparing projects now so that they are packaged and ready when reconstruction finance opens.

Every project is led by Farakh Masood, Founding Director of TGE*. Over thirty years of international business leadership across Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa, at ministerial level and with sovereign wealth funds, so the guarantee, the offtake and the politics around them are familiar ground. A mining engineer by training, with an MBA and legal training behind it, so the plant, the numbers and the contract are read together. Leader in Residence at Leeds University Business School.

The next step

Thirty minutes to decide whether this is the right route for your project

A fit conversation, not a pitch. If the route fits, TGE* sets out the Readiness Review in a single Proposal and Engagement Letter, and the review starts the week after signature.

farakh@tge-group.uk | +44 7711 314 044

For UK businesses entering a new market, see Internationalisation as a Service.