ENERGY & POWER INFRASTRUCTURE

Independent advice for energy and infrastructure decisions with long-term consequences.

FD Advisory Group helps mining, industrial, data-centre, commercial and government clients plan, evaluate, procure and oversee reliable, commercially sound energy and infrastructure assets.

Our advice spans early strategy and investment due diligence through project development, procurement, delivery oversight and operational optimisation.

THE PROBLEM WE SOLVE

Power and infrastructure decisions can lock in cost, risk and performance for decades.

Energy projects bring together technical performance, commercial structure, operational reliability, sustainability requirements and long-term investment risk. Organisations commonly face:

Unclear power strategy, demand forecasts or generation requirements
Generation mixes that have not been independently tested
Difficulty comparing technologies, suppliers and commercial structures
EPC, IPP and equipment proposals based on different assumptions
Owner’s requirements that do not reflect operational reality
Grid-connection delays and complex utility engagement
Decarbonisation targets that are disconnected from cost, reliability or delivery
Limited internal capacity to independently challenge assumptions and negotiate effectively

FD provides a founder-led, technically credible and commercially grounded perspective that identifies risk early, protects long-term value and helps clients make confident decisions before significant capital is committed.

OUR CAPABILITIES

Across the full energy and infrastructure lifecycle.

Strategy, investment and due diligence

  • Energy and infrastructure strategy
  • Demand and growth forecasting
  • Investment options and business cases
  • Technical and commercial due diligence
  • Risk and opportunity assessment
  • Go, no-go and staged-investment recommendations
  • Infrastructure portfolio and expansion planning

Generation and hybrid systems

  • Hybrid power-station strategy and development
  • Solar, wind and battery-storage integration
  • Gas and diesel generation strategy
  • Generation-mix and dispatch optimisation
  • Microgrids and behind-the-meter systems
  • Reliability, redundancy and resilience studies
  • Expansion, replacement and transition planning

Grid, utility and electrical infrastructure

  • Grid-connection strategy and applications
  • Transmission and distribution planning
  • Utility engagement and interface management
  • Western Power engagement
  • Electrical-infrastructure strategy
  • Network capacity and connection-risk assessment
  • Owner’s Engineer and independent technical advice

Procurement and commercial advisory

  • EPC and IPP procurement strategy
  • Power-purchase-agreement evaluation
  • Tender preparation and market engagement
  • Technical and commercial bid evaluation
  • Supplier and technology selection
  • Contract-risk review and negotiation support
  • Owner’s requirements and scope development
  • CAPEX, OPEX and lifecycle-cost modelling

Sustainability and decarbonisation integration

  • Decarbonisation pathways and carbon management
  • Sustainability requirements for energy infrastructure
  • Green Star and Infrastructure Sustainability interfaces
  • Embodied and operational carbon
  • Sustainable procurement and materials requirements
  • Sustainability targets, evidence and compliance
  • Aligning energy strategy, ratings and delivery

Delivery and operational performance

  • Project-development and delivery oversight
  • Technical and commercial assurance
  • Design and scope reviews
  • Interface and change management
  • Operational-performance assessment
  • Asset-performance benchmarking
  • Optimisation and transition planning
  • Post-implementation and lessons-learned reviews
ONE DEFENSIBLE EVIDENCE BASE

Clear advice for every decision-maker.

FD develops one consistent body of technical, commercial and sustainability evidence. We then translate that evidence for each audience without changing the underlying facts, assumptions or recommendations.

Boards and investment committees

Clear business cases, risk quantification, investment options, value protection and go or no-go recommendations.

Executives and commercial teams

Strategic options, procurement pathways, commercial structures, contract risks and long-term cost implications.

Project directors and delivery teams

Scope definition, owner’s requirements, interface management, procurement support and delivery-risk mitigation.

Engineering and operations teams

Technical architecture, reliability, technology evaluation, operating requirements and integration planning.

FOUNDER-LED DELIVERY, BUILT TO SCALE

Senior attention from the beginning, with capability that grows around the work.

FD Advisory Group is currently led and operated by its two founders. Clients work directly with the senior advisers responsible for the engagement rather than being handed to a junior delivery team after appointment. When a project requires additional capacity or specialist disciplines, FD expands the delivery team through project-specific recruitment and specialist appointments.

Om Dolasia

Co-Founder & Director | Principal Energy & Infrastructure Adviser

Om brings more than a decade of experience across engineering, owner-side advice, project development, independent power producer models, procurement and major mining-power projects. As former Head of Hybrid Systems at PWR Hybrid, he led the strategic, technical and commercial development of large-scale hybrid power solutions integrating gas, diesel, solar, wind, BESS and transmission infrastructure.

His prior project experience includes the 32 MW Mount Magnet hybrid power station for Ramelius Resources and hybrid-power development and tender work associated with Liontown’s Kathleen Valley, Lynas’ Mount Weld and Northern Star’s Jundee operations.

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Camila Fonseca Mazzo

Founder & Director | Principal Sustainability Consultant

Camila brings more than seven years of experience across environmentally sustainable design, Green Star, Infrastructure Sustainability ratings and major-project delivery. Her experience includes Western Australia’s first 6 Star Green Star certified industrial building and senior sustainability leadership on the METRONET Morley-Ellenbrook Line, which achieved world-leading Green Star railway-station outcomes and a Platinum As Built Infrastructure Sustainability rating under v2.0/2.1.

Camila leads FD’s sustainability strategy, rating, building-performance, decarbonisation, evidence and compliance services.

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Selected project experience described on this page was delivered by the founders as part of project teams in previous roles before establishing FD Advisory Group. Project names and technical information are included where publicly disclosed.

RELEVANT SECTORS

Where this capability applies.

Mining and resources
Industrial facilities
Data centres
Commercial developments
Government and councils
Utilities and infrastructure investors

Bring independent clarity to your next energy or infrastructure decision.

Whether you are developing a new power station, evaluating an infrastructure investment, comparing EPC or IPP proposals, planning a data-centre power strategy or defining a decarbonisation pathway, FD can help establish a clear and defensible way forward.

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