The kinds of projects we see
- Rooftop and ground-mounted solar for factories, warehouses, farms and commercial buildings, where the saving on the power bill pays back the system
- Energy efficiency and energy services, where a contractor funds upgrades to cooling, lighting or industrial processes and is paid from the savings
- Manufacturing for the energy sector, such as panels, cables, transformers or components, which are financed like other industrial projects
- Services to utilities and large energy users, including operations, maintenance and engineering businesses
SIDF lists renewable energy among the sectors it finances, alongside industry, mining and logistics.
What decides the economics
- Offtake. The power purchase agreement, savings contract or customer commitment, its length and the credit standing of whoever pays.
- Tariffs. The electricity tariff a solar system or efficiency project displaces, and how it is expected to change.
- Yield and degradation. Irradiation, dust and cleaning, temperature losses and panel degradation over the project's life.
- Technology and supply. Equipment choice, warranties, local content and lead times.
- Measurement. For savings-based contracts, how savings are measured and verified, since that is what gets paid.
What the study covers
- Load profile or energy baseline of the customer or site
- Technical design options, yield estimates and equipment cost
- Contract structure, tariff assumptions and payment risk
- Operations, maintenance and replacement over the asset's life
- Financial model over the full contract term, with tariff, yield and cost sensitivities
Questions we're asked
Can you assess whether rooftop solar pays back for our facility?
Yes. We start from your actual consumption and tariff, size the system, and model the saving and payback over the system's life, including cleaning, degradation and replacement.
Do you prepare bids for utility-scale tenders?
We focus on feasibility studies, investment cases and market-entry work. For utility-scale bids we can support the business case and the market view alongside the bidding team's technical and legal advisers.
Can the study cover an energy-efficiency contract?
Yes. Savings-based contracts depend on a credible baseline and a measurement method, so we set both out clearly before modelling the payments.