1. Find someone who wants to buy electricity. Seriously what grid operator has open offers for proposals to connect new generation, on any scale? Start there.
2. Find land that works for building your plant. It should be near existing transmission or distribution infrastructure so you don’t have to build as much yourself, which is expensive, and it should have good road access already, so you don’t have to build as much yourself, which is expensive.
3. Get a connection study done by the utility which proves it is possible for them to accept the energy at the ___location you want to build your plant
4. Sign contract to sell your energy
4. Get environmental studies done to prove you won’t harm birds fish insects etc
5. Get financing and insurance
6. Contract out design and construction of your plant. Probably operation too.
The technical side is the easy part. Getting the contracts and permits in place is harder.
2. Find land that works for building your plant. It should be near existing transmission or distribution infrastructure so you don’t have to build as much yourself, which is expensive, and it should have good road access already, so you don’t have to build as much yourself, which is expensive.
3. Get a connection study done by the utility which proves it is possible for them to accept the energy at the ___location you want to build your plant
4. Sign contract to sell your energy
4. Get environmental studies done to prove you won’t harm birds fish insects etc
5. Get financing and insurance
6. Contract out design and construction of your plant. Probably operation too.
The technical side is the easy part. Getting the contracts and permits in place is harder.