High energy costs are among the most stubborn operating expenses for an enterprise, whether it is grid electricity, fuel for power or costs of your vehicle fleet. We can help with this.

Then there’s the risks of unreliability and operations downtime, price uncertainty and the risks of making an expensive low-performing energy investment. There’s also the need to do sustainability reporting and thinking about your role in economic and societal development in a low carbon future.

What we do‍ ‍

We design, procure and implement a comprehensive on or off-balance sheet energy plan, fit for purpose, to your budget, to deliver value from year one.

Our services

  • Energy Scenario Building and Planning

  • Baseline Energy Audit and Analysis

  • Technical Conceptual Design

  • Financial Feasibility Studies

  • Project planning and development to close

  • Procurement Facilitation and Implementation

  • Due Diligence and Valuation Consulting

Our clients

Private and listed companies, mines, farms, factories, industrial and retail companies, as well as municipalities and government entities, financial investors looking to purchase and / or  improve operating assets.

We work to assist our clients on the buy side or sell side of energy transactions and power purchase agreements.

About us

Sun Ship was founded in 2018 by Ralph Berold, a renewable energy professional with 15 years of experience in development and project finance for large utility, commercial deals as well as small projects. He has implemented over 250MW of solar projects across Southern and East Africa. See Ralph’s CV and project experience in resources section below.

We work professional partners who are convened for each project to the client’s needs and scope. Together these collaboration cover a range of specializations including Financial modelling, Big data, Software as a service, Technical Engineering, Legal, Environmental, Mining, Tax, Research and Policy. See some of our associated partners in the resources section below.

Resources

25 points of commercial negotiation and value levers for Power Purchase Agreements in a fast changing SA electricity market

- PDF presentation deck (20 Slides)

Download PDF presentation here

Scaling clean energy and smart grids can turn the South Africa economy around by 2050

- Op Ed Article (2112 words)

See article here

Ralph Berold CV and Project List -

-PDF docs

Ralph CV here

List of Power Projects 2010-2025 here

  • Financial Close Expert

    See website here.

  • Energy Policy and Research Expert

    See website here.

  • Legal, Regulatory and Mining Expert

    See website here.

  • Carbon Market Expert

    See website here.

Associated Companies

Contact us

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Email. info@sunshipenergy.com

WhatsApp. +27 83 891 8071