The Feasibility Study considers: (sample study is included in the packet)
INPUT: Disposition of local landfills:
● Is it the intention of the authorities for the new plant to eliminate local landfills or, will the plant be concerned only with the daily delivery of new waste materials?
● What will be the total daily quantity and substance of the materials to be delivered?
Type of waste:
● Will the waste materials delivered, include industrial, hazardous and agricultural waste to the plant?
● If so, in what frequency and quantity?

Delivery:
● How, when and by what means will deliveries be made to the facility?
● This is a complicated metric requiring considerable research.
Future growth:
● The facility needs to consider the future growth of the area (city and regional area) so as to allow for growth (increased input) over a period of twenty years.
Expected results:
● The study will deliver its findings to the client such that a five year financial projection will indicate the total overheads expressed by detailed line items for every category of expense contrasted against expected off-setting revenues.
● Revenues will be expressed as a function of generated KWH’s or in m3 of Syngas, factored at the desired rates. The figures will indicate break-even operations as well as expressing increasing graduations matching the inputted flows of materials to be gasified.
● Allowances will reflect the capacity of the plant which will match the expected growth of the serviced areas. Equally, consideration will be given to increasing overheads as well as increases in the cost of the generated power to the local power company(s).
● The client is expected to pay a fee to cover the cost of the Feasibility Study. From this we pay our expenses including, travel, the rental of office space and salaries to local personnel retained to assist in researching and obtaining the data to be used in the study. In general, it is expected that a period of 3 -4 months will be required to deliver the completed study.
BUSINESS PLANS
A Business Plan is a detailed blueprint for building a given company. A business plan contains all that the Feasibility Study has plus specific time-lines, detailed budgets with monthly and seasonal forecasts, letters of intent, resumes of staff, background, competition, strengths & weaknesses, work-sheets and a full notation, appendix and all related and required documents that will be referenced as the company is being developed.
A well-written business plan will show what revenues can be expected and when to expect them, what overheads and expenses will need to be paid and exactly when they will be due. It will also show staffing levels and salaries along with costs of employment, sales levels with monthly and seasonal trends, setup costs, building/office costs, utility and telephone costs, legal, insurance and accounting costs, office furniture and supplies costs and a myriad of other cost projections as well as legal requirements and conformation to regulations.
In addition to the revenue projections and costs, the business plan will feature sections on demographics, objectives, expansion plans, contingency exercises, product and services market introductions, regulatory requirements and the laws of City, State and Federal governments relating to the business/project and much more. A well-written business plan can help maximize potential and minimize overheads, liabilities and risk associated with any project.
Over the years we have written many feasibility studies and business plans. We are able to offer hands-on assistance and support from day one until the project is complete.
For any new project the single document that means the difference between a positive or negative outcome is 100%, the Business Plan. If the plan is well and truly written and the lender and his advisors can see clearly in acceptable format, exactly how the facility is going to operate, make the loan repayments and avoid default, that project is far ahead.
The plan has to show, in clear understandable terminology and acceptable, recognizable format, a minimum of a five year, month by month financial projection reflecting every possible overhead contrasted against variable revenues.
The plan has to introduce the key officers and staff and contain detailed resumes of the principals. The plan has to show in detail how the facility will serve its proposed markets and allow the readers to see that the management team indeed understands the mechanics of the business.
A WTE project is exactly equal to the sum of its parts and no more. The plan must show how the facility intends to operate and maintain the technology, where and how it will be maintained and a detailed list of equipment that will be provided. There needs to be comments and descriptions of spaces, tooling and storage. The plan needs to show exactly where the facility will be located and how the operating team will be retained and trained along with what each level of staff and management will be paid. There has to be a very detailed set of projections indicating the number of employees that you will have to retain both initially and as the operation grows.

You will have to have letters of intent included in the appendix from all the relevant parties. For example, the appendices will require letters from the various civil authorities under which the plant will be operating indicating that they have reviewed and are in accord with the plans. A letter from an insurance broker is often an additional requirement. In fact, for every statement in the plan there has to be back-up documentation in the appendix.
The plan has to detail every single area of the new company so that lenders and bankers can have confidence that the management team does, in fact, have a very clear idea of exactly what is required for success. Absent a plan that reflects all of the above, the project will have little or no chance of being judged loan worthy.