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Building the Sustainable Venture
‘Case’
Sustainable
Ventures Inc. (SVI) is committed to supporting the expansion of clean
technologies in the Canadian and global marketplace. The challenges
presented by a dynamic regulatory environment and the growing integration
of corporate social responsibility into public and private sector
decision making, creates conditions of unparalleled opportunity for
increased market uptake of clean technologies. SVI is strongly positioned
to advise governments, investors and corporate entities in the assessment
of these opportunities.
SVI
has a depth and breadth of knowledge and experience in the clean
technology sector including extensive experience in:
- Validating clean
technologies;
- Analyzing competitors;
- Defining optimum market
conditions for specific technologies;
- Impact assessment of
clean technology enterprise adherence to ‘best
practices’ in all key aspects of business;
- Forecast of management
and financing challenges faced under conditions of rapid growth;
- GHG reduction
calculations.
SVI
offers clients superior intelligence and analysis which enables effective
strategic and tactical decisions for the commercialization and deployment
clean technologies into expanding markets. Specifically, our services
include:
- Market intelligence drawn
from broad public and private sector network;
- Evaluation of technology
capacities, financing, strategic partners and markets;
- Due diligence analysis
to assist clients in evaluating potential investments.
SVI
clients are provided a unique and valuable perspective on the expanding
clean technology market, enabling them to make sound, evidence based
decisions.
Our
Practice in Action – Building the Sustainable Venture
‘Case’ for Renewable Energy
SVI
has a recognized understanding of the clean technology marketplace,
technology capacities, financing and paths to market. In 2006 SVI was
engaged by a provincial government to assist in advancing their renewable
energy policy and program development. Representatives of the provincial
government declared their intent to position the province at the
‘forefront in development of renewable energy projects’.
The
province had released a framework strategy document on renewable energy
and had identified a need to collect and analyze current market data, so
as to advance the investment potential for renewable energy. With these
goals and context in mind, SVI conducted a comprehensive research project
including:
- Extensive review and
analysis of current policy framework, evolution of policy, key
actors influencing the policy context;
- Examination and
comparative analysis of projects and practices across other Canadian
jurisdictions with specific emphasis on the application and results
of ‘best practices’;
- Assessment of the
provinces’ opportunities to access federal funding for
it’s renewable energy strategy;
- An evaluation framework
describing prioritization of provincial initiatives based on
building the case for sustainable ventures with private and public
funding sources;
- Established a need for
and process to create ‘shared vision’ for advancing the
renewable energy framework, aligning 5 departments’ policies
and programs to coordinate, collaborate and complement action plans.
Following completion of this research
project, SVI has been retained by one of the participating departments to
identify and evaluate financing for specific renewable fuel projects.
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