Energy
In the past few years the issue of energy efficiency – and specifically natural gas – has become the main focal point of energy development in Israel. The discovery of offshore gas fields and the development of distribution and transmission networks offer business opportunities and significant savings, thanks to the shift to this clean and cheaper source of energy.
ARC specializes in setting up and managing complex infrastructure and energy projects with particular expertise in natural gas. Our experience with projects for conversion to natural gas includes all operational, construction, commercial, regulatory and statutory aspects. Our team of experts offers guidance throughout every stage, including dealing with regulators, contractors, and gas and infrastructure suppliers. ARC provides consulting in the field of renewable energy to dozens of industrial companies and public organizations including Energy Infrastructures Ltd., the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Health, Clalit Health Fund, and many others.
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Projects in the field of energy
Energy efficiency constitutes a business opportunity for significant financial savings for public organizations and industrial companies while at the same time, of course, helping to protect the environment. These potential advantages are realized by means of projects for conversion to natural gas, setting up cogeneration facilities, solar energy installations, energy storage facilities, and combined models (microgrids) as well as contracts with independent power producers.
The profitability of such projects must be evaluated in light of regulation costs, fluctuations in fuel and electricity prices, and operational conformance, all of which require multi-disciplinary knowledge and experience.
ARC specializes in consulting for complex infrastructure and energy projects with particular expertise in the field of natural gas and renewable energy – a field that is developing at a dizzying rate in Israel and worldwide. In recent years we have consulted on dozens of projects for both public and private organizations.
We have considerable experience in evaluating the feasibility and profitability of setting up different energy facilities, as well as all aspects of projects for conversion to natural gas and for dual storage solar energy including operations, engineering, tenders, statutory requirements, and economic considerations.
Our team of consultants accompanies every phase of the project, including energy surveys; advice on economic, funding and engineering issues; dealing with the regulator, contractors, and infrastructure; estimations of demand; feasibility studies, and economic valuations.
Electric car charging stations across town
the increase in electric cars on the roads of our country is felt by everyone.
The advantages of these cars are clear enough and finally pushes us over decades of dependence on contaminating gases.
With that being said it is clear that alongside the growth in electric car ownership there will also be a need for greater distribution of charging station from different technology types all across the city.
The service:
Assistance to the municipal authorities with picking the right contractor for doing the planning, establishing, operating and managing of electric car charging stations.
We provide extensive consultation, escort, and supervision for the establishment of electric car charging stations.
-Preparing a technical plan.
-Assistance with the process of selecting the locations of the stations in accordance with existing power lines.
-Basic planning for the required infrastructure for connecting the charging stations.
-Preparing the price estimate for the work.
-Preparing an economic model.
-Preparing economic estimates.
-Comparison between the different possible operative models:
- Turnkey + operation
- a bot which divides the income between the municipal authority and the contractor.
- A combination of the different methods.
-Recommending an operative economic model for the tender.
-Presenting measurements for income, outcome, profitability and such.
-Preparing the tender.
-Meeting with the local authority representatives.
-Determining the threshold conditions.
-Determining the quality standards of the tender for evaluating the different submissions.
-Preparing the technical specifications.
-Escorting the process of selecting the location of the charging stations according to the location of existing power lines.
-Planning the infrastructure needed for connecting the charging station to a power source.
-Selecting different economic models for the tender and choosing the most fitting model.
-Preparing the service specifications, including SLA.
-Preparing the tender documents- not including the legal and insurance related papers.
-Publishing the tender
-Participating in the provider’s conference (in the case in which there is one)
-Assistance with providing answers to the vendor’s questions regarding the tender documents.
-Checking the submissions- collecting the data and making sheets to compare quality and price, and establishing who should win based on the tender rules.
-Assistance with evaluating the different submissions and answering the vendors whose submission has been disqualified.
-Escorting the application of the tender agreement with the wining vendor
-Escorting the authority/ entrepreneur in front of the electric company.
-Escorting the authority entrepreneur during the infrastructure work and the connection to the power source.
-Escorting with the process of giving the charging stations to the local authority and checking that the stations were installed properly and are fully functioning.
Energy storage
The next phase in the world of energy is local and global energy storage. Energy storage is a relatively new technology; thou it is perfectly clear that it is about to take over a big percentage of the many energy sources in the market.
Energy storage in the distribution network (behind the metter)-
The local energy storage regards the common consumer, as the consumer hoards energy for himself during the hours in which energy manufacturing is cheap, and dispenses the saved energy during the hours in which the manufacturing is expensive. Therefore, the economic value of these projects is beyond any doubt.
Storage in the transmission network- energy storage in the transmission network is a country wide storage system. These projects include storage at a substantially bigger capacity, while the power discharge is done to the national network. In this case the system manager pays for the availability of the electricity as well as for every kilowatt that is transmitted to the national network.
The services:
The company specializes at escorting and consulting complex projects in the infrastructure and energy departments, with a special expertise in the field of natural gas, renewable energy and its storage.
Our company has much experience in checking the profitability of energy storage facilities which combine storage technologies. We have experience in the operative aspects, engineering, tender related, statutory and economic aspects in the field of conversion to natural gas, renewable energies, and the purchase of private electricity.
Establishment of generation / cogeneration / Cogeneration facilities
The energy market in Israel is going through significant change in the past years, after decades where it has been a closed market run by the Israeli electric company in a monopolistic way.
The energy department estimates that by 2024, new gas based microgeneration facilities -at a circumference of 670 mega- will be established.
Approximately 70% of the potential will be stations smaller than 5 mega.
It is possible to estimate that in the following years 1000 microgeneration stations will be established.
In order to realize these predictions and their potential the Israeli government has decided:
-to encourage the establishment of natural gas distribution network with 600 million shekel grants.
-the founding of cross office committee to aid in the necessary bureaucracy of laying out the gas pipes across the country.
-Grants for establishing microgeneration stations at the extent of 470 mega. In BOT and BOO projects these grants are given directly to the intrapreneur.
The given service:
Escorting tenders and running the projects in all of their aspects: engineering, technical, operational and economic in projects of energy efficiency and conversion to natural gas and compressed natural gas.
A techno economic model foe examining different scenarios of conversion to natural gas- cost estimate and savings. Including sensitivity analysis.
Escorting the promotion of distribution agreements with the local distribution company.
Preparing tenders for gas infrastructure and advertisement- includes the technical specifications, setting of corner stones, and defining the commercial conditions. EPC, BOT, BOO.
Tenders per demand- a tender for a gas purchase deal, tender for EPC, M&O, BOT, etc.
Counselling and preparing terminal equipment tenders.
Supervision over the establishment of the natural gas infrastructure.
Selected projects:
Tenders for the establishment of natural gas manufacturing stations for multiple hospitals.
Tenders for the establishment of natural gas manufacturing stations for multiple IDF bases and security stations.
The escorting and managing of projects of conversion to natural gas for leumi bank, shtraus milk products production plant, shufersal company, etc.
Photovoltaic projects
The state of Israel has been blessed with many hours of sunlight and with a climate that enables extensive use in Photovoltaic stations. These stations are limited in terms of their manufacturing abilities due to possible sun light hours, and their demand for considerable lands.
The country has created over the years a number of different regulations which provide a level of certainty for entrepreneurs who are establishing such projects.
These regulations are related to the sizes of the facilities, the existing rates possible and such.
The service:
-We provide consulting, escorting, and top to bottom supervision in the establishment of solar systems.
-Pre project
-Preparing an energy survey / survey of buildings fit for solar system instalment, with the help of an engineer and an economist.
-Making a Feasibility Study, a cost estimate, regulatory consultation and government grants.
-Selecting the appropriate funding model for the project (BOT, PFI, TK).
-Establishing a savings measurement model.
-Detailed engineering planning, and handling of statutory subjects.
-Preparing and escorting tenders including professional technical specifications and quantities list, by a variety of experts in the field.
-Writing the tender documents in an economic lens; including the technical specifications, documents addressed to the vendors, the submission papers, the price bid, the contract and all of its related documents.
-Checking the various vendor submission for the tenders, checking the quality (recommendations and interviews), and checking and comparing the price.
-Assistance with tender submitter’s appeals.
-Escorting with the application of the tender and negotiations with the submitters.
-Professional opinions for the court.
-Top to bottom supervision over projects.
-Engineering supervision over the quality of the material and the work with accordance to the plan.
-Total Supervision and inspection throughout the establishment of the facility.
-Supervision and inspection over the operation of the facility, efficiency and output.
-Tracking the savings and supervision over the payments to the supplier.
we have done work with Multiple local authorities.
Clients in the field of energy
