Studies & Advisory
Energy and industrial studies for decisions that have to hold up.
Six kinds of study for government, industry and investors in Saudi Arabia and the GCC, scoped in writing and delivered as named documents.
Who commissions this work
Three kinds of buyer, one way of working.
Government and public programmes
Industrial operators and developers
Investors and capital partners
The offer
The six study types.
Each block states what the study is, the questions it answers, the documents you receive, the duration, and what we need from you to start.
Study type
Market studies
Market structure, demand and supply outlook, competitive landscape and pipeline analysis across energy, low-carbon fuels and industrial products in Saudi Arabia, the GCC and export markets.
What it helps you answer
- How large is this market and how fast is it moving?
- Who else is building, and where?
- What does the offtake landscape look like for this product?
Typical deliverables
- Market sizing model
- Demand-supply outlook
- Pipeline register
- Competitive landscape memo
- Offtake landscape analysis
- Final report and briefing deck
- Typical duration
- 4–8 weeks
- What we need from you
- The question, the geography, and any internal market data you want reflected.
Study type
Feasibility and techno-economic studies
Pre-investment screening and techno-economic assessment of energy and industrial projects: configuration options, capex and opex build-up, production economics, and the conditions under which a project clears a hurdle rate.
What it helps you answer
- Is this project worth progressing, and under what assumptions?
- What drives the economics, and how sensitive are they?
- What is the credible configuration and scale?
Delivered under a mutual non-disclosure agreement.
Delivered work of this type · Saudi Port and Hydrogen Derivatives Feasibility (2025)
Typical deliverables
- Configuration options memo
- Capex and opex build-up
- Techno-economic model, handed over
- Sensitivity analysis
- Feasibility report
- Implementation roadmap
- Typical duration
- 6–12 weeks
- What we need from you
- Site or asset data, utility and feedstock pricing, and any prior studies.
Study type
Industrial decarbonisation and energy-efficiency studies
Site-level and corridor-level studies for refining, petrochemicals, cement, power and heavy industry: emissions baseline, abatement options matched to the site's energy and emissions structure, abatement-cost curves, energy-efficiency measures, and sequencing.
What it helps you answer
- Where are our largest and cheapest abatement opportunities?
- What does each option cost per tonne?
- How should we sequence near-term measures against longer-term transition?
Typical deliverables
- Emissions baseline
- Abatement option register
- Marginal abatement cost curve
- Energy-efficiency measure list with payback
- Decarbonisation roadmap
- Capex phasing view
- Typical duration
- 8–14 weeks
- What we need from you
- Production and energy consumption data, and the existing emissions inventory if one exists.
Study type
Hydrogen and clean-fuels studies
Pathway-level analysis of low-carbon hydrogen, e-methanol, green ammonia, e-SAF (synthetic sustainable aviation fuel) and DME: production configuration, conversion economics, routing and offtake, and compliance fit against IMO, ReFuelEU and RFNBO (renewable fuel of non-biological origin) criteria.
What it helps you answer
- Which product route is most defensible from this site?
- What does the delivered cost look like against the target market?
- Does the pathway meet the buyer's regulatory criteria?
Used as screening layers in this work:
Typical deliverables
- Pathway comparison
- Conversion economics workbook
- Delivered-cost build-up
- Offtake and routing analysis
- Compliance-criteria mapping
- Route recommendation memo
- Typical duration
- 6–10 weeks
- What we need from you
- Site power and feedstock assumptions, target market, and any offtake discussions you want tested.
Study type
Policy and regulatory studies
Analysis of Saudi and international policy affecting energy and industrial investment: the GCOM (Greenhouse Gas Crediting and Offsetting Mechanism) framework, the voluntary market via RVCMC, EU CBAM (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism) exposure, Article 6.2 and CORSIA mechanics, methodology tracking, and programme design benchmarking.
What it helps you answer
- What does this regulation actually require of us, and by when?
- What is our exposure, quantified?
- How do comparable programmes elsewhere handle this?
We describe regulatory frameworks and track published data, independently of any ministry, regulator or Designated National Authority.
MRV and carbon-accounting readiness support is described on the Carbon page
Typical deliverables
- Regulatory requirement map with clause citations
- Exposure quantification
- Comparative programme benchmark
- Options analysis
- Policy briefing note
- Typical duration
- 3–8 weeks
- What we need from you
- Your product and export profile, the markets you sell into, and any compliance correspondence already received.
Study type
Strategic workshops and benchmarking
Facilitated sessions and structured benchmarking: abatement-cost benchmarking against peer assets, scenario workshops for strategy teams, and technical briefings for boards and programme offices.
What it helps you answer
- How do we compare to peers on cost and carbon intensity?
- What do our options look like under different price and policy scenarios?
- How do we bring our leadership to a shared view?
Typical deliverables
- Benchmark dataset and peer comparison
- Scenario set
- Facilitated workshop
- Workshop output pack
- Decision memo
- Typical duration
- 2–6 weeks
- What we need from you
- The decision you are preparing for, the peer set you want compared, and the participants you intend to bring.
Confidentiality, data handling and independence
What happens to your data, and what we do about conflicts.
Industrial production data is the most sensitive input a study can use. These are the terms under which we receive it.
- Engagements can begin under a mutual non-disclosure agreement. Deliverable ownership and data-handling terms are agreed at scoping, before any client data is transferred.
- Client data is held only for the engagement and is not used in our published dashboards or datasets unless you agree to it in writing.
- Renewable Vision develops its own carbon and hydrogen project work. Where an advisory engagement touches a pathway we also develop, we disclose it at scoping and the client decides how to proceed. Our assurance line is designed to stay separate from advisory through the eight controls described on the Carbon page.
- Independence controls
- Our assurance line is designed to stay separate from advisory through eight controls: separate staff, separate reporting line, separate document access, separate client engagement records, an independent review committee, restricted project assignment, automated conflict screening, and a signed declaration before any assurance engagement is accepted.
- Conflict disclosure
- Renewable Vision also develops its own carbon and hydrogen project work. Where an advisory engagement touches a pathway we develop, we disclose it at scoping.
How an engagement works
Five steps from first call to handover.
The full seven-step model, the duration for each study type, and a readiness self-check are on the engagement page.
Scope
A 45-minute call on the decision you are preparing for. We write the scope.
NDA and data request
A mutual non-disclosure agreement if required, then a written data-request checklist.
Analysis
Desk research, modelling, and site or stakeholder engagement where the scope requires it.
Interim review
A working session on draft findings before the report is finalised.
Report and handover
Final report, model or dataset, and a briefing to your team.
Engagements can begin under a mutual non-disclosure agreement. Deliverable ownership and data-handling terms are agreed at scoping.
Selected engagements
Selected engagements.
Selected work: a feasibility study, a platform thesis and two products now live.
- Feasibility study
- Saudi Port and Hydrogen Derivatives Feasibility (2025)Pre-investment screening of green ammonia and e-fuels production off a Saudi industrial port, covering offtake, capex and routing.
- In-house thesis
- Saudi Carbon Management Platform Thesis (2024)A structured thesis integrating CO2 management, hydrogen monetisation, MRV and digital intelligence.
- In-house build
- RV-CMP Carbon Management Engine (2025)Screening engine for CO2 pathways, hydrogen, e-fuels, MRV, credits and mineralisation economics. Live as a digital product.
- In-house build
- RV Energy Dashboard (2025)13-section national dashboard, 52 datasets. Live as a digital product.
What we draw on
The evidence base behind a study.
- Published data
- KAPSARC Renewable Projects Tracker (CC BY-NC 4.0); IEA CCUS Projects Database (CC BY 4.0); Ministry of Energy published tender data.
- In-house tools
- RV Intelligence, RV Energy Dashboard, RV-CMP and RV Pathway Explorer — our own dashboards and screening engines, used as analytical layers inside a study.
- Frameworks
- The GCOM rulebook and SA-DNA methodologies M1–M5 for MRV (measurement, reporting and verification) work; ISO 14065 and ISO 17029 for assurance-system work.
Modelled economics are marked indicative until validated.
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Tell us the decision you are preparing for.
Include your organisation, the sector, the scope as you see it today, and the date by which you need the answer. We reply with a written scope and a fee against it.
Fees are quoted against a written scope.
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- RV AssuranceGCOM readiness, digital MRV and VVB coordination support. Guidance, not validation.
- For companiesPlanning a carbon project?Our GCOM preparation tools are free for Saudi companies: the readiness report and the evidence data room. Guidance, not validation.See the free tools