Banks are faced with crucial decisions whether or not to support an Independent Power Project. Lahmeyer International is able to provide a full service to assist in this evaluation process.

The following list is a typical but not exhaustive list of services provided by Lahmeyer International to Banking Consortia:

Pre Financial Closure Phase

• Review of the project's conceptual design basic engineering, construction and operation plans
• Assessment of the Fuel supply chain
• Judgement of the redundancy concept
• Review of Fuel Supply Agreement, Power Purchase Agreement, Consents and Clearances, Environmental Aspects
• Assessment of EPC / various packages and O&M Contracts
• Review of financial model and Security Package Mechanism

Pre-Completion services

• Monitoring of construction Progress, Capital cost and Disbursement Schedule for adherence to time schedule & Budget
• Assessment of various orders
• Assessment of the testing provisions
• Regular reporting during construction up to commercial operation
• Supervision of Plant commissioning
• Witnessing of Performance Guarantee tests and certification of test results.

Plant Operation Phase

• Regular reporting over the term of debt
• Monitoring and reporting of budgets, revenues, O&M cost
• Assessment of proposed plant modifications
• Examination of current and planned operating philosophy