Bridgestone - Consulting Engineers

Bridgestone Associates, Ltd., is an international consulting group specializing in assisting energy users, energy suppliers, utilities, and power plant developers and owners to plan and achieve their energy-related objectives. Experts at project and facility evaluation and design, Bridgestone provides a comprehensive range of energy consulting services, including project development, project assessment, financial modeling and energy management.

Over the past decade, Bridgestone has performed feasibility evaluations and assessments, due diligence on acquisitions, project development and design, and operational assessments on over 250 cogeneration, peak generation and other power generation facilities worldwide. Recent projects have been in Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, El Salvador, USA, Saudi Arabia, UK, Laos and Thailand.

What Bridgestone offers:

CONSULTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES

Bridgestone Associates, Ltd. provides a wide range of consulting and advisory services to energy users, marketers and producers of energy. We also serve owners and operators of energy projects, equipment and service providers and financial institutions involved in the energy market. These services include:

• Cogeneration and energy facility feasibility evaluations
• Strategic, business and market planning
• Marketing, opportunity identification and business development
• Evaluation of energy use and consumption efficiencies
• Energy use auditing and planning
• Valuation of existing or planned projects
• Financial and economic modeling
• Acquisition and investment due diligence
• Energy management strategy and utilisation planning
• Tariff analysis and design

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

The company's principals have been directly involved in the development of numerous independent power projects and other energy facilities worldwide. This experience and knowledge is used to take a lead or supporting role in the identification and development of energy related projects. These services include:

• Greenfield project development from concept to completion
• Project identification and conceptual evaluation
• Site identification and negotiation
• Conceptual and preliminary design
• Permitting and regulatory approval
• Complete project development
• Financing
• Fuel negotiations and contracting
• Electrical transmission interconnection negotiations
• Public relations management
• Contractor identification and selection

PROJECT ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION SERVICES

As a result of a wide range of experience in the energy marketplace, Bridgestone Associates' personnel have developed a comprehensive understanding of the requirements of buyers and sellers of energy related projects. This experience includes:

• Technical verification and suitability assessment of facility design
• Understanding of current and past operations and maintenance practices
• Valuation of a particular facility or business enterprise under current and future market conditions
• Ability to structure, negotiate and document the right business deal for all parties involved in the acquisition or sale process

ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL SERVICES

Careful design of facilities can be critical to the overall use of energy and the costs of operations. Bridgestone provides a comprehensive range of facility design and re-design services for energy production and energy using facilities, including:

• Technical due diligence on planned or existing energy facilities prior to or during operations for investment or financing purposes
• Preliminary design and equipment selection of cogeneration and independent power generation facilities
• Design of peak shaving and stand-by power systems
• Design of chiller, boiler and central utility plants for commercial and industrial companies
• Evaluation of existing production and utilities systems to determine suitability of design, potential efficiency improvements and design improvements to reduce energy consumption
• Design of energy management and monitoring systems

ENERGY MANAGEMENT, AUDITING AND DEMAND SIDE SERVICES

Bridgestone provides a comprehensive range of consulting services related to auditing energy use and developing the necessary plans to reduce costs. These services can be designed to support, supplement or replace in-house management personnel. They include:

• Preliminary and comprehensive energy audits on a system-by-system, facility or enterprise wide basis
• On-site measurement and verification of energy use, losses, wastage, etc.
• Analysis of existing bills and verification of correct tariff application and bill calculation methodologies
• Identification of demand-side energy reduction strategies, system changes and equipment replacement
• Technology identification and assessment
• Design and implementation of hardware and software systems to monitor, track, control and manage energy
• Design of energy management and awareness plans to implement energy use behavioral changes
• Economic and technical justification studies
• Contractor selection and management
• Verification of savings programs