INDEPENDENT RENEWABLE ENERGY ADVICE
Get the cleanest, greenest electricity with Carbon Partners.
FRESH THINKING
Think of us as your renewables energy planning partner, strategist and project manager. We provide independent analysis of large scale renewable solutions, financing options, and clearly defined installation deliverables.
EXPERIENCE & PASSION
At Carbon Partners, we live and breathe commercial and industrial solar & wind generation.
With years of technology innovation and project management experience together with a passion for helping others succeed, the principals and specialists at Carbon Partners have the skills and expertise to deliver on your large scale renewable energy generation aspirations.
Our New Zealand team operates from two locations – the capital city of Wellington as well as Wānaka, deep in the picturesque South Island – providing a unique perspective on your renewable energy solutions, wherever in New Zealand you are based.
Our Services
What we do
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Assessment
Our skills lie in early assessment of potential renewable energy generation, storage and resilience solutions.
We produce pre-feasibility analysis of commercial off-grid to grid-scale solar and wind including low interest (or zero interest) commercial financing and off-balance sheet financing options.
Carbon Partners can advise on operation and lifetime maintenance agreements and carbon offset solutions to support your commercial enterprise, as well as provide a system for carbon offsets.
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Finance Support
Carbon Partners can support your grid-scale solar and wind projects with connections to key funding partners, bank or rural lending finance and off-balance sheet financing options.
We have connections to significant ‘green funds’ that may wish to co-invest or fund your grid-scale solar farm installation.
Our team can produce documentation demonstrating the feasibility your scheme via future reduction in your electricity expense and through surplus generation revenue.
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Delivery
With access to a scalable team of engineers, hardware importers and domestic specialists, installers, electricians and analysts, Carbon Partners can recommend and assemble the right project team to deploy your chosen solution.
We can project manage from pre-feasibility through to delivery of the completed solution
Carbon Partners can establish a carbon offset (with sequestration measurement) solution to underpin your commercial enterprise with zero carbon outputs.
ARTICLES
Insights & Analysis
F.A.Q.
Find answers to commonly asked questions about our energy advisory services.
What types of assignments do you typically undertake?
At Carbon Partners, we love a challenge. But we’ll let you know if what you’re seeking is outside of our wheelhouse. We advise on energy resilience, commercially-centric renewable energy solutions and building the positive stuff that flows through to capital value.
We have decades of experience in New Zealand businesses so understand pressure on existing capital, technology risk and deployment, finance raising, and the value that positive energy can provide your business.
Pre-feasibility consideration of commercial solar generation options, from 1MW+ Grid-Scale Solar, is the fastest-growing area of competency for Carbon Partners. We can work alongside you to engage engineering, consent and installation partners and provide early advice on possible capital asset and off-balance sheet financing options.
How do you charge for your services?
Carbon Partners is a boutique independent solutions provider, and we’re happy to discuss your proposal or energy requirements.
We begin by conducting a thorough assessment of your goals, project requirements, and your expectations. Based on this evaluation, we can develop a customised renewables strategy designed to optimize returns while mitigating risk for all parties.
Depending on the installation, we can charge by time to complete a feasibility study providing a range of quoted costs covering a breadth of recommended solutions. Project managing an installation is typically underwritten by the wholesale margin we retain for hardware and installer fees so there is no additional cost to you, our client.
For advice and pre-planning, we typically charge a quoted fee for hours, but for larger projects, we are open to negotiating based on retaining a scaled percentage of energy returned to the network. Let’s talk and discuss what could work best for all parties.
What sectors do you have most experience in?
We have a deep knowledge of technology adaptation and deployment over many decades and in multiple sectors.
Our international business experience spans New Zealand, USA, UK, Taiwan, Germany, Singapore, Australia, Chile and Argentina.
We combine corporate and sales experience in energy generation, retail and network companies in New Zealand, plus we partner with a broad range of infrastructure, technical (engineering and hardware), finance, and installation specialists, as required, who all jointly support the projects we choose to undertake.
What do you enjoy the most?
We love creative power generation and storage solutions that best utilise existing land and natural resources, building in an offset model for zero carbon impact – that’s the real buzz. Green and clean electricity with zero emissions.