We help clients to deliver better energy projects every day. Here's how we've supported some of our clients on their renewable energy projects.
The Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm, situated 15km off the east coast of Angus, Scotland, marks another remarkable step in Scotland’s renewable energy journey. Featuring up to 72 turbines, the power generated by the site will be transported 85 kilometers to a new substation based in Cockenzie, East Lothian, before joining the National Grid. From here, it is set to power the equivalent of more than half of the homes in Scotland.
Earlier this year, we were engaged by Encavis AG, a leading European Independent Power Producer (IPP), to serve as Owner’s Engineer for the final construction phase of the 30MW Illevaara onshore wind farm in Finland.
With a wealth of offshore wind resources available in the region, the Taiwanese renewable energy market has huge growth potential.
In light of South Korea’s goal to become carbon neutral by 2050, energy leaders have turned to the expansion of the country’s renewable energy market to achieve this target.
The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project is the first offshore wind farm project in the mid Atlantic, located 27 miles off the coast of Virginia, with capacity to generate energy to power over 3,000 homes.
The Baltic Power offshore wind farm, a landmark project in Poland’s renewable energy journey, marks a significant milestone as the first offshore wind farm in the country to reach financial close.
The Hai Long offshore wind farm, located 45-70 km off the West coast of Changhua County in Taiwan, is one of the first large-scale offshore wind projects in the region.
K2 Management acted as the Lenders Technical Adviser (LTA) for NORD/LB, a prominent German bank and renewables investor.
K2 Management acted as Owner’s Engineers, providing comprehensive support, including technical assistance, project management, and procurement support.
K2 Management acted as Lender’s Technical Adviser and Lender’s Environmental and Social Adviser on landmark offshore wind project in Taiwan Strait.
Off the shore of Goto City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, lies the Goto Floating Wind farm - the very first commercial scale floating offshore wind farm in Japan.
The Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm, situated 15km off the east coast of Angus, Scotland, marks another remarkable step in Scotland’s renewable energy journey.
Pakistan is in the exciting early stages of its wind evolution, with wind energy capacity forecast to increase by more than five percent between 2020 and 2025. With the growing support brought via new government policy, alongside the declining costs of renewable technologies, clean energy is now able to compete in price with fossil fuel sources.
Located between 130km and 230km off the north-east coast of England, the Dogger Bank Wind Farm is set to become the world’s largest offshore wind farm with an installed generation capacity of 3.6GW - enough to power six million British homes.
We were selected as the Owner’s Engineer and design partner for the 504 MW Taean Offshore Wind Farm in South Korea.
K2 Management was appointed as the owner’s engineer for two significant onshore wind projects in Vietnam, the 175 MW Kông Yang and 175 MW Cư An wind farms.
K2 Management has played a pivotal role as the owner’s engineer in the final phase of a groundbreaking renewable energy project in Vietnam.
K2 Management is proud to be the appointed Owner's Engineer for the Maryland Offshore Wind Project, a flagship initiative by US Wind.
K2 Management has brought together local expertise and international scope to steer one of Korea’s fastest commercial offshore wind farm projects through its initial concept phase and into development.
AXA and Crédit Agricole hired K2 Management as their technical advisor when they bought a 50% share in the world’s biggest wind farm, Hornsea 2, for £3 billion.
K2 Management was engaged by investor, Contour Global, based in USA, to deliver support in moving from a basic O&M set up to a full O&M support structure for a wind portfolio in Latin America.
K2 Management was appointed by Cordelio Power to deliver project and construction management for the 185MW Glacier Sands onshore wind project in Illinois.
Octopus Investments engaged K2 Management in an Owner’s Engineer role for Project Otso, an onshore wind project located in forested terrain in Finland. The project consists of two wind farms, Saunamaa and Suolakangas, comprised of 17 V150-4.2 MW WTGs.
Energiforsk, an energy research institute, engaged K2 Management to deliver a large pre-development study and analysis for the LCoE of offshore wind off the coast of Sweden. The data will work to inform Energiforsk’s comparative study for the development of the most cost-efficient energy resource.
Utility, AURA Energi’s subsidiary AURA VE, engaged K2 Management to provide due diligence services to support the acquisition of a 50% stake in the biggest onshore wind farm in Denmark.
Joint venture partners, SSE and Equinor, appointed the K2 Management team as Lender’s Technical Advisor to Dogger Bank Wind Farm A and B – two out of three phases that combine to make the largest offshore wind development in the world.
K2 Management delivered acquisition due diligence services in support of bp’s first step into the offshore wind market – a 50% stake in Equinor’s Empire Wind and Beacon Wind assets.
K2 Management supported John Laing in assessing its pipeline of Australian opportunities, delivering technical due diligence on four successful transactions in a 12-month period.
ESB appointed K2 Management to support them in acquiring a 50% stake in the 448 MW Neart Na Gaoithe offshore wind farm.
As a partner in the EU project Horizon 2020 MegaRoller, K2 Management has had a key role in answering some of the questions surrounding wave energy. The project has a team of participants from across the industry with a collective aim of driving forward understanding of wave technology.
K2 Management’s assignment with Triton Knoll Offshore Wind Farm began in its early stages, where we delivered a full Lenders’ Technical Advisor role for our client over a two-year period.
K2 Management delivered full scope construction management on the €1.4bn Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
Mainstream Renewable Power - “K2 Management provides us with the client-focused approach that we value.”
Cubico Sustainable Investments - “When it comes to operational analysis in the energy market, K2 Management provides a first-class service.”
Swiss utility, ewz, commissioned K2 Management to deliver a full acquisition due diligence mandate for its acquisition of 30.1 MW Stigafjellet onshore wind farm in Norway.
Foresight Group successfully completed its first wind acquisition in Germany – 50 MW of operational assets acquired from WPD -with technical due diligence and energy yield analysis from K2 Management.
K2 Management* was commissioned to conduct a benchmarking study for Carnegie Wave Energy to investigate a range of performance and load metrics suitable for benchmarking with alternative wave energy converter (WEC) types.
Aqua Power Technologies Ltd. (APT) is developing an innovative wave energy converter and contracted K2 Management* to independently review its WEC technology development programme and provide detailed support to the modelling and testing of the APT WEC.
AW-Energy appointed K2 Management* to undertake a wide range of activities, including technical due diligence and second-party support in a range of engineering disciplines.
Appointed Encavis in early 2018, K2 Management was tasked with a wind turbine inspection as part of a wider technical due diligence review.
In 2018, we were commissioned by Dominion Energy Virginia to deliver a decommissioning cost estimate for the proposed Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Initiative – a 12 MW offshore wind project on the US east coast.
Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) appointed K2 Management in 2016 as technical advisor performing technical due diligence on the Fluvanna I onshore wind project in Scurry County, Texas.
The first foreign-owned wind farm in Vietnam, Dam Nai, has achieved successful completion, becoming commercially operational in early 2019. The project was developed in two phases using a multi-contracting strategy, split into three main contracts - turbine supply, civils, and substation.
An Irish investment firm was considering the acquisition of an operational solar portfolio, consisting of 22 ground-mounted solar plants and over 8,000 rooftop mounted solar sites in the UK.
K2 Management helped Identifying causes of underperformance - and we had to take a new approach to operational assessment to solve the problem and bring new insights.
Rapid acquisition support for 200 MW project in Texas, USA, operational for less than one year. Our analysis helped the client with inspections, analyzing data for turbines and inspection of power curves.
Rapid review and assessment of energy yield for <10 MW onshore wind farm for lender finance to get a better understanding of risks and ensure results quickly.
Independent energy yield assessment of a 42 MW (AC) solar farm in Australia, on the site of a decommissioned coal-fired power station. K2 Management was appointed to undertake an energy yield assessment of the Collinsville Solar Farm following the successful award of $9.5m AUD to RATCH in the latest round of ARENA grant funding.
Full independent energy production estimate of Borssele I & II offshore wind farms for submission as part of a Government-led competitive tender process.
Financial-grade energy yield assessment of multiple single turbine sites, including RSPB, H&H Celcon and QEH. We minimise uncertainties by using quality wind analysis regardless of project size.
From field to financing - energy yield assessment of two onshore CfD projects: Kype Muir and Middle Muir. Only a handful of onshore wind projects successfully secured contracts under the first CfD allocation round in 2015. We are pleased to have supported Banks Renewables in bringing two of these to financial close, Kype Muir and Middle Muir.
Non-standard bankable energy yield assessment for 8.55 MW Airfield Wind Farm, subject to multiple constraints. We enabled our client to fully understand the potential energy yield of the project and select the best solution.
Rapid technical evaluation for acquisition of Viridian's 225 MW onshore Irish wind farm portfolio, we undertook site inspections, identified missing documents and provided a summery report for each project,
Using CFD to reduce yield uncertainty for 200 MW Dorenell Wind Farm, a Scottish project in very complex terrain.
Assessment of the cumulative probabilistic power output of existing wind farms in the Eskdalemuir Seismometer Array exclusion zone.
Development support and energy yield assessment for 120 MW Grousemount Wind Farm incorporating CFD and noise modelling
AES Tietê Energia has acquired the 386 MW Alto Sertão II wind portfolio in Brazil for R$600m ($193m USD), with technical due diligence support from K2 Management and TNEI.
A consortium led by Australian bank, Macquarie, has agreed to purchase the UK’s Green Investment Bank today in a £2.3bn GBP deal. K2 Management led the technical due diligence on the transaction on behalf of Macquarie after being appointed in 2016.
K2 Management advised on Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ (CIP) equity investment in Bearkat I onshore wind farm in the US, which has just reached financial close. The assignment saw K2 Management’s North American team deliver detailed acquisition due diligence and advisory support over a five-month contract.
K2 Management is proud to announce it has supported existing client, investor CGN Europe Energy S.A.S. (CGNEE), with their acquisition of 14 wind projects across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
With a long history of involvement in Butendiek, K2 Management supported ITOCHU Corporation in its 22.5% equity interest investment into the 288 MW wind farm – ITOCHU's first investment in European offshore wind.
K2 Management is pleased to see the 396 MW Merkur offshore wind project confirming financial close. We focus on our clients different risks and to strengthen the project.
Virginia Offshore Wind Technology Advancement Project (VOWTAP) is developing a 12 MW offshore test wind project approximately 27 miles off the coast of Virginia in the United States.
For our long-term client EnBW, Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, K2 Management supported the German utility with independent technical and commercial advice and review of the main contracts of the upcoming 500 MW EnBW Hohe See offshore wind project.
K2 Management was commissioned by Chinese-headquartered wind turbine manufacturer Envision Energy to perform a review of geotechnical site conditions, proposed foundation designs, infrastructure and construction QA methodology of a Swedish wind project.
Construction of the 402 MW German offshore project was completed in less than 14 months and just 23 months after financial close. Commissioning activities on the last turbine were completed end May 2017 – 4 months ahead of agreed schedule and below the budget agreed at financial close.
The Establishment of Quality Management system for Starkraft. The main objective of this project was to establish an applicable instrument to secure a high standard of quality in wind projects.
K2 Management was awarded “Best Partner” by our client SK D&D for our work supporting the development of the Gasiri Wind Farm, located on Jeju Island, South Korea.
K2 Management has supported SK E&C in South Korea to perform a measurement campaign for developing an offshore wind farm. The wind farm is not far from the coastline and the site center is about 4 km from the shore.
Formosa 1 Offshore Wind Farm (128 MW) will be Taiwan’s first utility-sized offshore wind farm, planned for commissioning by 2018. K2 Management has performed wind modelling and wind data analysis and will now expand its scope of work to include:
K2 Management is proud to assist John Laing, a leading international infrastructure investor and asset manager, on an ongoing basis identifying investment opportunities in the wind energy sector.
K2 Management is happy to announce that we have signed yet another contract with our client Keystone Tower Systems. In this agreement, we will work as a subcontractor to Keystone Tower Systems under a US Department of Energy grant that supports the advancement of tall tower technologies.
With the support of K2 Management, Sund & Bælt succeeded to build the entire project in record time without any Health & Safety incidents and within budget.
With the support of K2 Management as a project management consultant. Vestas succeeded in delivering this important phase 2 of the wind farm on time and within budget.
"We are proud to call K2 Management a partner to WindSpace. As a developer with a lean organization, it is paramount to have close business partners and working relationships realizing wind projects."
K2 Management has been an important partner for local developer Ilmatar in terms of closing the contract with wind turbine manufacturer Vestas for the Luhanka, Latamäki site.
WindMW has used K2 Management's services on its offshore wind farms Meerwind Süd and Meerwind Ost since June 2010. A combined project of total 288 MW (80 x 3.6 MW turbines).
From 2009 to 2011 K2 Management helped PNE Wind develop the 240 MW offshore Gode Wind II project, located in the German North Sea.
"We would like highlight K2 Management's straightforward and practical approach, they deliver as promised and do not 'oversell' themselves or their capabilities, It makes such a large project much easier to deal with and easier to implement."
For more than two years K2 Management supported London Array Ltd develop the world's largest wind farm, 630 MW London Array outside the coast of UK. We also later worked as Lender’s Engineer for Masdar and Tokyo Mitsubishi Bank prior to their investment in the project.
In September and October 2013 we helped our client KEPCO/iKR with a design review of a substation for the upcoming South West offshore wind farm. We are pleased to have received this statement from our client:
"As advisors, their work has been thorough, thoughtful, timely and professional. In addition, they have been able to draw on wide range of skill sets within the K2 Management organization to provide insights and advice on how to avoid numerous potential concerns before they are encountered. In summary, I can highly recommend the services of K2 Management".
Ogin engaged K2 Management in the second half of 2013 to identify suitable Italian site-specific wind conditions for its high efficiency shrouded wind turbine.
