Support
- Facilitate and Streamline
- Build a Mills Map to publish micro hydropower potential provided by historic sites in the Ardennes. It will include data on historical water wheel, mill, weir and other existing lateral river structures
- Provide Templates, Guidelines, and Checklists for Financial Plan, Engineering Plan, Permitting, and Exploitation agreement
- Choose and support a short lists Architects, Engineers, and Suppliers
- Negociate framework agreements with Banks, permitting authorirties, funding authorirties, main suppliers, etc…
- Inform, Communicate and Lobby
- Promote microhydro by focusing on three main groups:
- decision-makers who can create improved legal, political, regulatory and financial incentives
- stakeholders who are potentially suited to start and/or participate in a cooperative (e.g. site owners, investors, electricity companies, engineers, manufacturers and banks)
- general public
- Main responsibilities and tasks :
- Corporate design and Web presence (Social Networking, etc…)
- Disseminate promotional material
- local media, press work, and information events
- Manage Cooperative(s) and members
- Members Meeting (to appoint memebers of the Board of Directors, Distribute benefits, etc…)
- Day-to-day operations (manage subcontracting, accounting, …)
Architecture
- Identify the most relevant sites for refurbishment from those given on the Mills Map and target a specific region
- Visit Sites, assess high level profitability, and make a pre-agreement with the Owner for exploitation
- Design the site (choose technology, design civil work, …) and summarize findings in an engineering plan
- Assess profitability (costs and revenues) in details and document findings in a Financial Plan
- Finalize agreement with Owner
- Proceed with permitting process (environmental analysis, …) and get Permit
Engineering
- Set-Up contract with Distributor (for Grid Connection) and Partner Supplier
- Implement Civil work and set up technology as designed in the Engineering Plan
- Connect to the Grid
Production
- SetUp Production
- Register to Commercial Register
- Register for VAT
- Register as Green Producer (CWAPe)
- Run Production
- Maintain installations
- Collect and Sell Green Certificates
- Sell Electricity to Partner Supplier
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