An independent diligence practice for the energy transition.
We are a Sydney-based diligence firm applying modern engineering methods to a specific, painful bottleneck in infrastructure investment. Our practice serves private-equity platforms, super and pension funds, investment-bank coverage teams and sovereign co-investors across the NEM, ERCOT and the Gulf.
Every investment committee deserves the same quality of technical read, regardless of deal size.
Today, a A$100M NEM BESS deal and a A$600M BESS deal attract the same six-week independent-engineer template, with most of the cost going into bespoke work the investor never sees. The layer below that should be productised, open, and delivered to one standard.
Folio Grid sits between a project datapack and an investment committee. We ship pipeline-wide screening, a proprietary red-flag and revenue engine, and a senior-reviewed IC memo, with the methodology open for the analyst on the other side.
Four commitments that shape every deliverable.
Diligence is an investor product, not an engineer product
The work lands with the analyst and the investment committee. Every output we ship is shaped for that audience, not for the engineer running a study.
Open methodology earns institutional trust
The value sits in the quality of the judgement layered on top of the methodology, not in secrecy. Open methodology earns trust with sophisticated investors; black boxes erode it.
Built around the NEM, not in spite of it
Our technical engine is calibrated against the AEMO register, the ISP, and the constraint equations that actually determine which NEM projects connect. International coverage extends from that foundation.
Senior sign-off, every memo
Every deliverable is reviewed and signed off by a senior analyst before release. Technical rigour on the first 85%, institutional judgement on the last 15%. That is the standard we commit to.
A senior team, drawn from power systems and institutional capital.
Our analysts bring engineering and markets experience across independent-engineer practices, super-fund infrastructure teams, and NEM developer-side analytics. Senior leadership has direct methodology authorship across the red-flag and revenue engines.
Every engagement is reviewed by a senior analyst with NEM network-study experience before release. Team composition is detailed on request under engagement.
Sydney, Australia
Our engineering practice sits inside the NEM market it serves. We travel regularly into ERCOT and the Gulf for clients operating across those markets.
- Practice focus
- Utility-scale BESS and hybrid renewables
- Primary market
- Australia · NEM
- Technical core
- pandapower · PyPSA · AEMO data
- Methodology alignment
- DNV-RP-0671 · 2024