Our Approach

Here for the ride; not only the outcome

We believe trust is a fundamental part of doing business. We build trust by consistently listening and understanding our customers' needs and approaching each task with diligence, care, and dedication. In turn, this gives us a sense of pride and joy we reflect on them, with a one of kind service. Our customers trust us because we sit-down and care before we embark in any project. That’s because we are here for the ride, and not only the outcome.

Our Approach

Energy for Life

“I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone – if possible – Jew, Gentile – black man – white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness – not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost…”

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Charlie ChaplinThe Final Speech from The Great Dictator

“Regrettably, Chaplin’s words are as relevant today as they were in 1940. His speech and so many others alike, give us hope. Hope for a world where entrepreneurship is embraced for a planet for everyone. A planet where mineral extraction is limited to needs, and reutilization is business as usual. A planet where energy is abundant, available, cost-efficient, and clean. A planet on which we can live as “one people”, in harmony, peace and kindness to one another”.

These are the elements of our vision.

Selling & Buying

Finding a customer, or provider

Often, finding a customer requires knowing the buyer, its interest and reminding them the importance of their role in the energy mix. Often a cold call is just the starting point to issue an offer the customer never realized possible. Often, a seller prefers to focus on anything other than selling, or buying.

We support our customers in the process of selling or buying projects. We market the project or access the customers or providers potential addressing their unseen needs with facts and information they didn’t have.

PPAs

Market know-how and right contacts

Variable energy from renewable sources is creating a market with multiple hurdles and enormous potential. New business models have emerged to satisfy this demand including ESCO, or contracting, and solar and wind complimentary sales. For infrastructural projects, this often means buying power long term from utilities or traders to guarantee a base-load in-take at competitive prices, and terms.

Companies take years to assemble a PPA with reasonable terms, especially under uncertain market conditions, and without the underlying know-how required to close a deal efficiently.

Developing

Don’t take unnecessary risks

Developing projects is typically a high-risk business. Many projects must be identified and developed in parallel to close only a few. Conservative investors normally don’t carry this risk. Rather, it’s a risk private investors, large utilities, or experts bare.

Our years of experience buying project portfolios from developers and developing projects ourselves has given us the tools to assess these early risks and provide our customers with minimum risk strategies to approach and access them with care.

Multiple Brands

Focus on long-term Partners to ensure long-term success

The energy sector has seen numerous companies come and go. In good times, and hardship, companies have been purchased by bigger ones, and some have helplessly lost the battle. Even with thorough determination and hard work, market conditions harshness have impeded success for many. Under current and projected market uncertainty, deeper care, deeper analysis and profound technical knowledge helps hinder many of the risks of working with one brand, yet no one can say with absolute certainly what the markets will bring.

For these and many other reasons, we are continuously monitoring technological reports and most importantly talking to those on the field commissioning, testing, and maintaining the technologies we are to assess and recommend our customers.

Vision

We envision a world where energy is produced free of environmental impact utilizing the infinite energy sources our planet obtains from nature. A planet where energy is abundant, available, cost-efficient, and clean. A planet on which we can live as “one people”, in harmony, peace and kindness to one another. That’s why our vision is simple, ambitious, and for everyone:

“To reap clean energy for life”

By reaping we mean receiving as a consequence of one’s own or another’s actions. This is essential to our philosophy because developing energy infrastructure projects requires many to work together with a common goal.

By clean we mean energy sources that send zero contaminating emission in the air.

And finally, by life, we mean all forms of life: nature (air, land and sea), fauna, flora and us, the people on our planet.

MISSION

“Facilitate clean energy transaction by mitigating investors investment risks”.

Bridge Financing

Focus on long-term Partners to ensure long-term success

One of the most recurrent risks we see in the construction of solar farms for examples, is the high insolvency of EPC subcontractors of utility scale projects. Subcontractors lack the necessary knowledge of the service the EPC requires, whereas EPCs tend to pressure subcontractors for the lowest possible price. We supervise the complete process and grant good subcontractors the necessary capital to execute the works their hired for. Like this, we avoid subcontractors' default, EPCs changing subcontractors and delaying the construction process, and asset owners seeing the project live later than planned.

OUR APPROACH EXPLAINED

When investors can't see or closely know all the risks, we step-in to unveil and mitigate them.

Investors recurrently enter markets, even low risk ones resorting to standard international risk measurement tools. Often, they’ve never travelled or more importantly lived and worked for a specific business in the market their entering and consider publicly known information as true.

In Practice

In practice, many operational risks will rise during the development, construction and operation and maintenance of their energy assets. Many of which they have never heard-of. Examples include climate changes, local recurrent whirlwinds, desert snow and rains, extreme heat, morning fog condensation on active electric components, grid irregularities and control mechanisms, human resources sourcing mechanisms; and local operational specific nuances such as, lengthy driving distances, access to food and lodge at the power plants, or access to safety tools and equipment. Knowing the right people, the right places and having the information or information sources and trusting their capacity to execute a contract is vital for success.

We know the markets we operate in because we are local, have physically and personally worked in them, know the language and the culture but most importantly, our customers and partners will get from us “an open book” approach to business. We will tell the complete story and explain the market and its risks with utmost care, detention to detail, and personalization servicing the highest quality standard an investor can get. When, and once we are moving forward with a project, we will also “jump-in the pool and get wet”.

Recurrent Risks

One of the highest and rather recurrent risks we see in the construction of energy projects is the high level of insolvency of EPC subcontractors. This occurs, among other reasons due to lack of knowledge of the service the EPC requires, bad negotiations in the tendering phase, or EPCs pressure to execute the service, for example, by retaining payment instalments. Often, EPC´s pressure subcontractors to lower their price and change their payment terms or the scope of works after the subcontractor was hired. In addition, subcontractors often don’t have the expertise to calculate adequate cash flows and thus end-up unable to perform the works adequately, in time, and with the financial flows/payments they are provided. Once constructing, the EPC’s resort to payment retentions which further damage the whole project and its progress risking the projects timely execution, and thereon energization. Logically, this risks the investors capacity to sell electricity on time, and as projected, often loosing months of sales, and risking even the grid connection rights, and the overall project.

We mitigate investors risks by becoming its true on-site, in market eyes. We will be the local partner controlling the project with our people, on site, and by allocating our own cash to facilitate the project progress. We do this by very carefully defining clear technical EPC & BOP specifications. Once the EPC offer has been accepted and the EPC enters the BOP selection phase, we support the BOP companies preselected by the EPC in their cash flow preparation and contract risk valuation and mitigation strategy. Thus, we do not leave the process on the EPC, freeing all the risks on the investor. We work with the complete vertical line of suppliers before, during, and after the construction so there is never a risk of default, delay or distress of any of the parties involved.

We know what we do

We have been in this business for over 20 years. We’ve started companies in the subcontractor fields (ramming, mounting modules, electrical works), and commissioned projects with our own hands. We are are constantly learning, improving, preparing ourselves, talking to our field engineers, technicians and workers. We have an open, stress-free culture towards everyone, investors, or cleaners. We are all people and can all see things in ways no one else can.

We know there is no one offering what we do. We are unique and will work with our investors like no other company they have every worked with before.

Our name is ORUS Energy, a word that, in Spanish language, resembles the sound of gold yet comes from the mythology “first to be born”, and resembles a person that is energetic, charismatic, ambitious and focused.