Renewables
Innovations in Energy Require Innovations in Logistics
Across the spectrum of renewable energies and technologies, supply chain efficiency and cost competitiveness continue to be a key aspect of enabling market adoption.
PLG Consulting has been involved in market analysis, operations, network design, procurement, site selection, and innovation for renewable energy and the circular economy for more than ten years.
PLG Consulting’s representative work and expertise in the logistics of various clean technologies include:
- 1Renewable Fuels/Renewable Diesel
PLG Consulting is at the forefront of the transformation of the global liquid fuels supply. Specifically, PLG Consulting has been deeply involved in the renewable diesel space and its attendant issues and challenges in optimizing inbound feedstocks and outbound finished product to the growing low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) markets.
- 2Waste Plastics/Circular Economy
PLG Consulting has been tasked by its clients to help bring logistics solutions as innovative as the mission itself – capturing and repurposing the 90+% of post-consumer waste plastics that currently end up in landfills, oceans, waterways, beaches, and elsewhere.
- 3Wind Energy
Since the advent of utility-scale wind development in North America began in the mid-2000s, PLG Consulting has assisted global wind OEMs and developers to optimize logistics and lower overall project costs.
PLG Consulting has experience in not just building a better mousetrap, but inventing it
As rapid technological advances have brought new clean sources of energy and basic materials to market, logistics solutions needed to support those innovations have, in some cases, not even been invented yet. Traditional approaches to supply chain elements such as sourcing, mode selection, inventory management, technology, and network optimization may require modification or outright disruption in order to ensure that renewable technologies can be reliably and cost-efficiently implemented.
PLG Consulting has helped build optimal supply chain solutions around emerging clean energy sources that required, in some cases, entirely new methodologies. For example, when European wind energy companies first entered the North American market in the late 2000s, moving wind turbine components via rail was a completely new concept for the industry that had been almost exclusively using truck and vessel. PLG Consulting helped numerous firms design and implement rail securement, procurement, site selection, transloading, rolling stock, and fixturing solutions for blades, towers, and nacelles that had not previously existed.
PLG Consulting experts have helped “turn the box” and answer the question, “How can we do this?” to help clients achieve ESG goals and bring green energy solutions to the market. Project experience includes:
- Optimization of cellulosic feedstock gathering for biomass fuels
- Extensive wind energy component logistics and wind farm supply chain optimization
- Truck transportation asset and operations planning for methane gas recovery from landfills (LFG)
- Waste plastics feedstock sourcing and supply chain design
- Site selection and new plant site logistics operations and infrastructure design for wind energy, renewable diesel, and waste plastics processing facilities
- Inbound and outbound logistics planning and procurement for multiple renewable diesel refineries
- Sourcing and logistics strategies for renewable diesel feedstocks
Cutting edge innovation for supply chain and logistics operations
With nearly 20 years of experience in helping to "turn the box" in supply chain and logistics operations, new solutions for our economy require the kind of cutting-edge innovation that PLG Consulting brings to all its engagements.
Renewables projects: PLG Consulting is honored to have the trust of its clients to help bring about the future of energy, basic materials, and ESG objectives of producers, consumers, and investors.
PLG Consulting has advised on multiple renewables projects, providing market analysis, site selection, logistics procurement and engineering for:
- refineries
- chemical producers
- bulk terminals
- landfill operators
- wind/energy OEMs & wind farms
- CNG/LNG
- renewable diesel
- waste plastic feedstock
- midstream operators
PLG Consulting Innovation to Help Green Technologies Succeed
Renewable Fuels/Renewable Diesel
- Network sourcing and supply chain strategy for feedstocks, including biomass, soybean oil, DCO, animal fats, and used cooking oil (UCO)
- Railcar fleet sizing, specifications, and sourcing for both feedstocks and finished product
- Multi-modal transloading, storage, and distribution strategy and implementation
- Logistics assessments and optimization for new plant sites, including rail access, plant site infrastructure design and engineering, and inventory and storage requirements
Waste Plastics/Circular Economy
- Network optimization and transportation modeling for waste plastics of multiple grades from municipal recycling facilities (MRF)s across the US
- Site selection for new processing and aggregation sites, including the total cost to serve, the total cost to build, and incentive negotiations
- Plant site logistics infrastructure design and engineering, including warehouse facilities, rail infrastructure, loading racks, marine docks, and tankage. Also includes inventory modeling and facility sizing for adequate storage capacity for both feedstocks and finished products
- Logistics strategy, negotiations, procurement, and operations planning for outbound finished liquid and dry products.
Wind Energy
- PLG Consulting helped pioneer the transportation of wind energy components via rail, developing innovations in laydown yards, equipment specification, load securement, and railcar design.
- Multi-modal network optimization for wind component supply chains to wind farms to achieve the lowest total-cost-to-serve (TCS) for projects
- Wind farm site delivery logistics feasibility assessments and planning
- Comprehensive transportation procurement and turnkey fourth-party logistics services across all modes and continents
- Project cargo vessel loading configurations and fixturing
- Port site selection and evaluation
- Project experience in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America
Other services we have provided in the area of renewables include:
Project Examples
Major landfill gas recycler teams up with leading provider of waste disposal and recycling services to bring to market cost-effective compressed gases
Wind turbine producer in a tight production pinch ends up saving over $2.6 million in transportation costs
Largest North American wind farm development maximizes the use of rail for materials and component deliveries
Utility scale turbine manufacturer looks at logistics impact of site location
Global bio-fuels producer and trader considers rail vs marine shipping
Wind farm developer reduces costs while procuring and transporting specialty equipment across four continents
PLG Consulting’s team of experts is at the forefront of the renewables industry to help you capitalize on this growth and accelerate market adoption for a better world.
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