AFP // ENERGY
All practice areasPower generation and supply on the corridor: solar plants, hydropower, captive supply to remote sites, IPP structures and power purchase agreements. We connect these projects with developers, equipment suppliers and financiers.
Scope
Our scope covers power generation and supply for industrial and mining use, together with the associated equipment and services.
Ground-mounted plants, industrial self-consumption and hybridisation of remote sites. This is the segment where international supply and West African demand meet most directly.
Small and medium-sized plants, rehabilitation of existing works and site studies. Long projects, but whose output fits naturally into a long-term supply contract.
Electricity is one of the first cost items of any operation. Replacing part of the thermal generation with solar or hydro changes a site’s economics directly.
We bring project sponsors and independent developers together, and we document the quality of the buyer: without a solid offtaker there is no bankable contract and no financing.
A measured entry point onto the corridor for international industrial groups: supply, install and maintain, without carrying development risk.
Counterparties
On one side, projects and sites that need power; on the other, developers, industrial groups and financiers. Each party is verified before any introduction.
The files we receive, appraise and present.
The international counterparties we approach.
Market view
An energy project is judged neither on its solar resource nor on its technology. It is judged on its buyer, on its contract and on the strength of its operations.
On the remote sites of the corridor, electricity weighs directly on operating cost and on plant availability. A hybrid solution that reduces the thermal share improves the cash cost of production and secures continuity of supply. That is why we handle energy files together with the corresponding mining files: the energy project finds its buyer, the mining project finds its margin.
The bankability of an independent project comes down to three simple points: who buys the power, for how long and in which currency. We qualify the buyer before presenting the project to a developer or a lender, and we document whatever is not yet secured. A file that hides a weak buyer does not survive the first credit review.
Developers, contractors and equipment suppliers worldwide have built large-scale solar expertise and are looking for markets in which to redeploy it. West Africa offers real industrial demand but difficult access: few documented projects, many intermediaries. The corridor does not need one more intermediary, it needs a verifiable point of entry.
Process
The same process applies to every energy file, from a captive power plant to an equipment contract.
Nothing starts without a written mandate: scope, territory, term, fee and tail period.
The file is reduced to verifiable facts, then to an anonymised teaser.
KYC on both sides of the table. A counterparty that refuses to be verified gets nothing.
Presentation once the NCNDA is signed, with information released in stages.
Support through the negotiations to signature, followed by a 24-month tail period.
Mandates
Anonymised extracts from live or qualifying mandates. No company name, no precise location, no figures: the full file opens once the NCNDA is signed and the counterparty verified.
Access granted under NCNDA, once the counterparty has been verified.
Project sponsor, site operator, developer or supplier: describe your position and the counterparty you are looking for. We scope first, then formalise before any documents are exchanged.
No company name, no precise location and no document circulates before the NCNDA is signed and the counterparty verified. That is the difference between structured deal origination and an opportunistic introduction.
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