Engineering case study

Utility-scale ESS review before EPC commitment.

At Vestas from 2018 to 2019, I supported energy-storage sizing, RFP inputs, technical due diligence, bidder comparison, and LCoE-informed value engineering for utility-scale hybrid-energy work.

Situation, task, action, result

A review system for assumptions that could otherwise hide in documents.

Situation

ESS sizing, electrical and control interfaces, RFP responses, supplier assumptions, and LCoE trade-offs arrived through different technical and commercial inputs.

Task

Support the technical review so decision-makers could compare scope, risk, and bidder responses on a consistent basis.

Action

Organized requirements, interface ownership, assumptions, deviations, and open risks into a review sequence that multidisciplinary teams could follow.

Result

Technical gaps and ownership became easier to identify before procurement choices and execution commitments were fixed.

Review sequence

Four controls used to make bidder inputs comparable.

  1. Define the decision boundary.Separate fixed requirements, design assumptions, supplier choices, and unresolved owner inputs.
  2. Normalize technical responses.Review sizing, interfaces, operating cases, and exclusions against the same question set.
  3. Expose risk before scoring.Record deviations, dependencies, and missing evidence before a proposal is treated as technically complete.
  4. Carry decisions forward.Keep rationale and ownership visible for procurement, design development, and execution review.

Evidence boundary

What this public case does and does not claim.

This page describes a transferable review method and the public role context. It does not publish client files, bidder data, project performance figures, or confidential commercial outcomes. No unsupported percentage improvement is claimed.