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Renewable projects and pipeline, on cost and on schedule.

We advise developers, IPPs, funds and EPC contractors on the management of their project portfolios. We assess the maturity of their processes, implement the model each company needs and sustain it with bespoke digital tools, automations and artificial intelligence.

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The challenge

Nine out of ten large projects do not finish on cost and on schedule.

Almost every developer we know works with standardised planning, a risk register and a monthly cost report. Even so, projects drift, because each tool runs on its own, the data reaches the person who decides too late and it is not clear who is accountable for each task.

€0.9M

that a 50 MW onshore wind farm fails to invoice for each month of delay, on an average European PPA. A solar plant of the same size, about €0.3M.

Source: Vari Energy calculation with LevelTen prices, 2026

What is at stake

  • 64%

    of European wind farms ended up costing more than budgeted.

    Source: Ryu and Sovacool, Wind Energy, 2025

  • 1,700 GW

    of renewable and hybrid projects are waiting for a grid connection in 16 European countries.

    Source: Beyond Fossil Fuels, Ember, E3G and IEEFA, 2025

  • −0.45 pt

    of IRR with one more year of development.

    Source: Worked example by ETH Zurich (Gumber et al.), 2024

  • 34%

    of European power companies already use AI, but almost no energy company has it built into its management at scale.

    Source: Eurostat, 2025, and McKinsey, 2026

In our experience it is almost never the team that fails. What tends to fail is the management: governance, processes and the tools used to apply them.

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Road through farmland in Soria, Spain, with wind turbines on the horizon
Alcubilla de las Peñas, Soria, SpainPhoto: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0

What we do

Three capabilities so that the project is delivered as planned.

  1. 01Free

    Maturity diagnostic

    We give an independent assessment of how the company governs and controls its projects. We identify where deviations originate, confirm what already works and propose improvements. We point out where automations and artificial intelligence agents could be deployed and set it all out in a roadmap.

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  2. 02

    Project management model

    We design the governance and the PMO processes the portfolio needs, starting from the organisation the company already has, and we implement them alongside its team.

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  3. 03

    Digitalisation and artificial intelligence

    We deploy automations, artificial intelligence agents and tools tailored to the organisation. We apply them to the processes the company already has, where possible, or redesign those processes with it. We know which part of the work on a renewable project artificial intelligence can take on and which decisions must stay in people’s hands.

    See how we apply it

Each part after the diagnostic is contracted separately, with fixed scope and price.

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Where to start

Which processes are missing and what artificial intelligence agents can already do.

We give an independent assessment of ten areas, from governance to lessons learned. The report sets out the maturity of each one, what already works, the findings ordered by their effect on cost and schedule, the processes where AI agents could work and a roadmap in phases. It takes the company a questionnaire and one session, and the report arrives within a week. It carries no cost and no commitment of any kind. Each month we accept a limited number of diagnostics.

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Exhibit 1Maturity by area

Example

Processes existed in almost every area. They were partly followed, but rarely changed a decision in time. Nothing was automated.

GovernanceFeasibilityRisk 1Planning 2Capex 3ContractsReadinessDocumentsHandoverLessons

49%

Average maturity

3

Priority areas

0%

Of the work, automated

Maturity by area
AreaExistsFollowedIn timeAutomation and AIAuto. and AIEffect on cost and scheduleEffectOrder
Governance and RACIYesPartlyPartlyNoMedium
Feasibility and gatesYesMostlyPartlyNoLow
Risk managementMostlyRarelyRarelyNoHigh1
PlanningMostlyPartlyRarelyNoHigh2
CAPEX controlYesPartlyRarelyNoHigh3
Contracts and changesMostlyRarelyRarelyNoHigh
ReadinessMostlyRarelyRarelyNoMedium
Document managementMostlyPartlyPartlyNoLow
HandoverPartlyRarelyRarelyNoMedium
Lessons learnedPartlyRarelyNoNoMedium

The roadmap sets the first year. What comes next is planned with what that year teaches.

Illustrative example of the result of a diagnostic for a confidential company.

Method

Ten areas decide cost and schedule.

Governance is the base, and nine processes rest on it, from feasibility to lessons learned. On the roof work the agents and applications that sustain them.

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  1. 10 Agents and applications
  2. 09 Lessons learned
  3. 08 Handover
  4. 07 Document management
  5. 06 Readiness
  6. 05 Contracts and changes
  7. 04 CAPEX control
  8. 03 Work planning
  9. 02 Risk management
  10. 01 Feasibility and gates
  11. 00 GovernanceRACI matrix
  1. 01Governance
  2. 02Processes
  3. 03Agents and applications

Method 00Governance and RACI

The firm

Whoever knows the project builds the tool.

Renewable projects
Direct experience in the development, construction and operation of wind, solar and BESS.
Artificial intelligence and automation
Agents, automations and applications, designed and built by the same firm.

Meet the firm

  1. 01Experience
  2. 02Judgement
  3. 03Technology
  4. 04Impact

We love talking about projects.

The first conversation carries no commitment.

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