WORKED EXAMPLE
The Price of Firm Power
A 100 MW industrial offtake at a world-class wind–solar site in southern Morocco, modelled end-to-end in Converge Hybrid. Every configuration is dispatched hour by hour for 30 years against a flat 100 MW demand. Three objectives, three different projects, three different prices.
9.5 m/s mean wind · solar ≈ 2,260 kWh/m² per year · −0.55 wind–solar correlation · flat 100 MW load
Cloud: full site sweep · height = IRR · colour = storage MWh
Lowest cost · ~85% of load
$58 /MWh
160 MW wind · 100 MWac solar · no battery
The cheapest energy overbuilds the two free resources and spills the surplus. The gaps sit in the small hours, when both resources fade.
~90% firm · ~90% of load
$80 /MWh
Wind-led hybrid · light storage
A modest battery and a rebalanced mix push coverage to ~90% for a third more cost. Below new gas, competitive with new coal, and the price is fixed for 30 years at financial close.
Near 24/7 · ~99% of load
$136 /MWh
320 MW wind · 250 MWac solar · 250 MW / 1,000 MWh battery
Chasing the final hours demands a large battery and heavy overbuild: each extra percentage point of coverage costs more than the last. The right target is a commercial decision, not a technical one.
Anonymised real project. 30-year hourly techno-economic simulation; figures indicative. Full analysis in the white paper.
ONE TOOL ACROSS THE HYBRID ENERGY LANDSCAPE
One Platform,
Every Stakeholder.
Converge Hybrid serves the full renewable energy value chain — from project developers optimising configurations, to industrial consumers securing firm power, to equipment manufacturers expanding their market reach.
Renewable Developers
Optimising hybrid plant configurations across wind, solar, and battery storage to secure reliable, dispatchable capacity is complex and time-intensive. Plant output must preserve grid stability to allow renewables to be contracted as dependable supply — all while maximising financial returns.
- Ingest hourly wind and solar resource data
- Examine resource complementarity and renewable analytics
- Full site configuration builder covering CAPEX, OPEX and financial parameters
- Shape demand profiles: flat grid-limited output or time-varying
- Run detailed simulations with production analytics for wind, solar and battery
- Optimise across turbine count, solar capacity, battery sizing and PPA price
- Solve for optimum IRR, LCOE or NPV with capacity factor filtering
- Pro forma financial models ready for financiers and auditors
- Full financial analysis with debt service coverage charts, NPV and IRR
- Shareable reports for stakeholders at every stage
- Optimised configurations maximising developer returns
Industrial Consumers
Large-scale electricity consumers — mining operations, smelters, chemical processors — need reliable baseload power to transition away from fossil fuels. Intermittent renewable supply doesn't match 24/7 industrial demand profiles. These industries need to understand whether hybrid renewables can actually power their operations, and at what cost.
- Configure multiple hybrid renewable scenarios for specific industrial loads
- Model output profiles against actual demand requirements
- Analyse delivered power quality and reliability metrics
- Calculate true cost of delivered energy
- Optimise solar + battery configurations for baseload delivery
- Test whether firm power targets (85%+) are achievable for the site
- Clear answer on renewable suitability for operations
- Optimised hybrid configurations matched to industrial load profiles
- Firm power supply design for continuous operations
- Defined pathway to decarbonisation with bankable project economics
Equipment OEMs
Wind turbine manufacturers and energy equipment OEMs need market intelligence to price competitively and identify growth opportunities. They must understand how their products perform within hybrid configurations across different markets — and communicate that value effectively to customers.
- Assess market pricing and equipment competitiveness by region
- Identify target markets where specific equipment excels
- Integrate battery and solar analytics even for single-technology OEMs
- Model end-user outcomes by product type and configuration
- Build data-driven proposals showing customer ROI
- Stronger sales proposals backed by detailed project economics
- Deep understanding of customer use cases and pain points
- Expanded market reach through hybrid solution positioning
- Bundling opportunities combining wind, solar, and storage offerings