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Skills & Expertise

THE ENTIRE VALUE CHAIN REPRESENTED

Masen coordinates the various stakeholders, hence strengthening the value chain. With its unique model for intervention, Masen provides its integrated projects with a plethora of multidisciplinary skills and expertise.
Specific expertise guide every step of the renewable projects’ development, forming a complete and coherent chain. 14

Masen Specificities

Exploration

This department is involved at the early stages of project development to identify, analyze, and qualify the most suitable sites for renewable energy projects. It is responsible for measuring and evaluating renewable resources and meteorological conditions, notably through the establishment of solar and wind atlases. It also conducts a series of qualification studies (topography, hydrology and hydrogeology, seismicity, geotechnics, environmental and social impact) that confirm the potential of the sites and identify conditions to anticipate during the design and construction phases. This department is the entity responsible for mobilizing the land necessary for each renewable energy project, a key milestone for the realization of any project. Within this department, there are specialized engineering profiles (GIS engineers, statisticians, specialists in geological, seismic, hydrological, topographical studies, and land specialists, among others).

Engineering Design

This department, driven by versatile engineers, is responsible for identifying and proposing, based on multiple criteria, the most suitable technologies for pre-qualified sites and designing technical configurations that allow for the optimal utilization of each site's renewable energy resources, taking into account its specific characteristics.
It is tasked with translating this design and its requirements into technical specifications that ensure the most secure deployment of renewable energy projects in compliance with current standards and quality norms. The department is also responsible for developing the urban and landscape concept of each project, in harmony with its environment. The technical design team is thus involved from the initial phase of the project through to its development and award.

The Development Program and Financial and Legal Structuring

These two departments of Masen work together on the legal frameworks and financial engineering aspects related to the project structuring, thereby defining bankable and optimized project structures with balanced risk allocations among the different stakeholders throughout the entire lifecycle of a renewable energy project.
The Development Program department also manages the entire process of selecting private partners who will be involved in the projects, from the call for expressions of interest to the financial closing. Furthermore, it ensures that projects comply with the best international environmental and social standards and works on carbon credit valuation.
On its part, the Financial Structuring department is responsible for raising the necessary funds for the development of the projects and conducting the financial optimization operations for each of Masen's roles in the projects.

Power Plants and Infrastructure

Several departments of the Operations Pole are responsible for the construction and commissioning of energy complexes. In this capacity, they supervise the engineering phases, procurement, equipment manufacturing, construction, acceptance, and commissioning

Engineering and Performance

This division is responsible for constructing and operating energy complexes: from the engineering phase to the implementation of the projects, including the supervision of the equipment purchase and its production. This division is also in charge of the R&D projects’ deployment. All through this process, the team makes sure that quality, security, environment, budget and planning are respected.