Renewables
multidomain integrity assessment for
Integrated Project Development
Independent · Structured . Strategic . Project-level
Helping project leaders keep the wider project in view before making consequential decisions and commitments.
Why it matters
Leadership Responsibility
Project leaders are expected to maintain an integrated view of the project and use it as the basis for consequential judgments and decisions that shape the project trajectory and its outcome.
Development Reality
Renewable projects evolve across multiple interdependent domains and maturity stages, in a fluid environment and competitive landscape, developed by diverse teams under sustained delivery pressure, often with one leader responsible for several projects at once.
Risk Exposure
Project complexity and urgency, compounded by finite leadership bandwidth, can leave gaps, inconsistencies, and misalignments in the integrated project picture, which is often distributed across fragmented project artifacts.
Unwanted Consequences
When discovered late, these issues can disrupt development, trigger firefighting, drive rework, delay and cost escalation, reduce optionality, and ultimately weaken bankability, deliverability, and operability.
How It's done
A renewable energy project is viewed as an interdependent integration of specialist domains, each needing to be de-risked, defined, and executed in harmony across successive maturity stages.Guided by a multidomain reference framework, the assessment examines the matter under review within the wider project context to identify gaps, inconsistencies, misalignments, and unresolved dependencies. Whether assessing the collective project basis or a specific integrated deliverable, it stress-tests these high-leverage matters before they are relied upon, committed to, or carried forward.Crucially, the assessment remains strategic and project-level: applying the integrated perspective already expected of project leadership rather than re-performing the specialist work carried out by the project team.The result is a targeted, independent assessment of the adequacy, integrity, and fitness for purpose of the matters that count most.
Reference Framework
The reference framework provides a project coordinate system: an archetype of how renewable projects are typically developed and matured. Developed from industry frameworks and development practices, combined with broader industry experience, it provides the structure for examining project matters in their wider multidomain and lifecycle context.It maps ten project domains across sixteen maturity stages, from inception through closeout and handover, and accounts for interfaces and dependencies between domains, within each stage and across the project lifecycle.The statistics shown in the graph are compiled under the framework’s guidance. For a specific project, the framework is contextualized to its technology, market, and maturity, and used as a guide rather than a checklist.
Where it focuses
Two categories of high-leverage project matters, both shaped by contributions, dependencies, and interfaces across multiple project domains.
Collective Project Basis
How well does the project hang together?The project’s governing basis: how it is structured, governed, developed, controlled, and evidenced—connecting objectives, strategy, requirements, architecture, plans, baselines, registers, decisions, interfaces, and downstream commitments into a coherent whole. It matters because this foundation shapes project direction and underpins subsequent development choices and commitments.The collective project basis is synthesized from the body of project knowledge captured across business, management, and control documents and the supporting evidence inventory.
Integrated Deliverables
Is this sound enough for its intended use?Commissioned within the context set by the project basis, these are consequential multidomain outputs that formalize, test, or carry that basis forward — and may, in turn, update or refine it.
| Category | Function | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Project Management | Controlled project documents that formalize and communicate key elements of the project basis. They matter because they become reference points for directing, coordinating, and governing subsequent development. | Business cases, project plans, project baselines, decision and risk registers. |
| Project Studies | Integrated studies that evaluate, select, define, or advance the project at key points in development. They matter because their findings often become the basis for subsequent design, planning, investment, and development decisions. | Techno-economic assessments, feasibility studies, concept selection studies, Pre-FEED/FEED studies |
| Scopes & Proposals | Documents that define what consequential project work will cover, how it will be performed, and what evidence and deliverables will be produced. They matter because the quality of that definition directly influences the usefulness and reliability of the work that follows. | Scopes of work, RFPs, terms of reference, consultant proposals |
Engagement Modes
The approach combines independent, structured, strategic, project-level support with an engagement model proportionate to the matter at hand. Engagements are kept focused and flexible around project needs, with clear commercial boundaries and price certainty wherever scope can be defined.
Discrete Engagement
A focused assessment of a defined project matter — whether the collective project basis, an integrated deliverable, or another consequential development matter — with a clear scope, purpose, and output.Best suited where an independent project-level view is valuable before something consequential is relied upon, committed to, or carried forward.
Ongoing Project Advisory
A standing, project-specific advisory relationship providing continuity of project context and independent project-level perspective as development progresses, with focused assessments undertaken as discrete assignments where warranted.Best suited where several consequential matters are expected to arise and continuity of project context, timely advisory access, easier mobilization, and a consistent independent perspective are valuable.
| ' | Discrete | Ongoing | Commercial basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Focused Deliverable Assessment | ✓ | ✓ | Fixed fee |
| Collective Basis Assessment | ✓ | ✓ | Fixed fee |
| Project Context Onboarding* | — | ✓ | Fixed fee |
| Ongoing Advisory Access | — | ✓ | Time-based |
* Project context onboarding is undertaken at the start of an ongoing engagement to establish the advisory baseline, which is subsequently maintained on a time-used basis as the project progresses.
I am Amir Kalantari, a power and renewable energy professional with experience spanning engineering, project management, and consulting across the development and construction of conventional and renewable energy projects, including roles with SNC-Lavalin, GE Renewable Energy, and Wood PLC. I hold a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from McGill University.
Over time, my interest in the macro view of these projects—and in how their different parts come together as a whole—has shaped my evolution from a power systems specialist to a power projects generalist. That perspective now underpins my work assessing consequential project matters across domains and development stages, with particular attention to the integrity of the wider project picture.
