Welcome to Green Venture Partners

Through our various commercial arrangements with our partners, we are able to deliver value to projects in a number of ways including sourcing projects, financial modelling, obtaining market off-take agreements, securing Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractors.

We also provide a sales agency for clean energy technologies such as solar PV.

We work in the clean energy sector, developing solutions for project finance and investment strategy for clean energy projects such as wind, solar and biomass.

We do not focus of new technology, but rather proven technology looking to reduce their project cost of capital, as clean energy's levelised cost of energy starts to reach parity with coal and gas through different mechanisms such as Australia's REC and Carbon Tax/Emissions Trading Scheme start to take shape.

Our focus is global, and we do not limit ourselves just to Australia. Rather our focus is Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, (but it is not limited to those areas alone).

Why wind is cutting energy costs

The most common critique of wind energy, and renewables in general, in the mainstream media and anywhere the issue is discussed is that it is expensive.

The problem is, this is only half true. Or at least, it only tells half the story. While the levelised cost of energy from wind farms is higher than that of baseload coal and gas, the deployment of wind energy here and overseas is having a surprising impact on energy market prices: it is causing them to fall.

Source: Giles Parkinson
September 5, 2011
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A review has found that the government's carbon price negotiations are founded on emissions data for solar PV that may underestimate its cost effectiveness by up to a factor of 10.

The Australian PV Association (APVA) has done analysis of the recent Productivity Commission report being used by the government, Greens and independents in negotiations about a carbon price. The APVA findings show that solar PV could be between four and 11 times more effective as a way to cut greenhouse pollution than the Commission has calculated.

The Commission claims that the cost of emissions reduction achieved via solar PV is $432-$1043/tonne CO2. According to the APVA, the true figure is $90-$95/t CO2, depending on the installation location. This discrepancy is explained by the following errors in the Commission report:

Source: Dan Cass
28 Jun 2011
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