New Zealand renewable energy investment and development
Lumere helps developers and investors decide where to allocate capital, how to optimise your projects and what deserves to progress.
Beacon screens your position in the market. Lumere provides bespoke investment intelligence, modelling and end to end development advice.
Beacon investment intelligence
Before commissioning detailed studies, use Beacon to understand how the project compares with other opportunities within your portfolio and across New Zealand. Beacon brings together:
The value historically captured by solar or wind at your location.
The effect of visible development on the project’s forward outlook.
Indicative connection headroom and queue pressure.
The local battery signal.
Project size specific investment ratings.
The factors most likely to improve or weaken your project’s case.
Beacon tells you whether your project deserves further investigation. Lumere then takes the project further through bespoke modelling, commercial analysis and development advice from project screen to investment decision.
Know whether a BESS pays before you commit to it
A BESS can create value through energy trading, reserves, renewable energy firming and avoided curtailment. But adding revenue streams does not automatically produce an investable project. I build practical BESS financial models that show where revenue is generated, which assumptions drive the answer, how battery size and duration affect returns, how degradation and replacement costs flow through the case, whether the battery improves an existing project and what needs to change for the investment to proceed.
The result is not a black box forecast. It is a transparent, editable model your team can use to test costs, contracts, operating strategies and market scenarios.
Know what your solar project will earn and how to improve it
A solar project’s value is not determined by annual generation alone. It depends on when it generates, the price captured during those hours, how much solar is built around it, how the site is designed and how its output is contracted. Lumere’s solar investment model helps developers and investors understand the complete commercial case.
Test capture price under different solar build out scenarios
Compare merchant and contracted revenue
Optimise the physical design
Assess whether BESS creates incremental value
Identify the project’s break even conditions.
Prepare for PPA negotiations
Test the assumptions most likely to change the decision.
Development advisory
Progress the projects that justify your time and capital. Development pipelines often contain more opportunities than a team can credibly fund or execute. Lumere helps developers compare those opportunities, identify the decisive constraints and direct capital toward the projects with the strongest pathway to value. Support can include:
Project and portfolio review
Connection, land and consenting.
Commercial and financial modelling
Pre-feasibility and investment decisions.
Development activity co-ordination.
Direct project leadership where additional development capacity is needed.
Consent engine
Lumere’s AI Management Plan Framework means you stop paying specialists to draft the same report twice. The information needed for most management plans has already been developed, tested and accepted through the consenting process. It sits across the application, technical reports, further information responses, evidence decisions and consent conditions. Yet management plans are often commissioned separately and rewritten from blank templates. That creates duplicate costs, inconsistent requirements and avoidable delays during certification.
Lumere’s consent engine reads the entire consent record and assembles it into one connected management plan suite.
Around 90% of the plan can be prepared before specialist review, allowing technical experts to focus on only the narrow, specific detail for certification.
About Lumere
I’m Ryan McCone, founder of Lumere.
My background spans renewable energy development, law, economics and environmental planning. That allows me to work across boundaries where projects commonly become fragmented including market value, grid connection, land, consenting, project economics and investment strategy.
I work directly with developers, investors, landowners and Māori organisations across Aotearoa.
Beacon is the analytical engine behind my work providing a consistent market view, from which I apply bespoke advisory services and market judgement.
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