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Safe Harbor Strategy
Ensure your solar project qualifies for tax incentives with clear, third-party documentation. Whether using cost or physical work methods, get the support you need to reduce audit risk and meet IRS safe harbor requirements with confidence.
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Supply Chain Traceability
End-to-end traceability that verifies material origin, ensures import compliance, and reduces supply chain risk.
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Transformer Procurement
Utility transformers are complex and high-risk to procure. Ensure quality, compliance, and timely delivery with expert support across sourcing, inspection, expediting, and Safe Harbor requirements.
Mitigate risk and ambiguity in your renewable energy supply chains
Experienced developers know that many problems in the factory and at the project site — defective products, production delays, warranty fights — can be avoided by selecting a better supplier or negotiating better contract language. Intertek CEA simplifies this process by offering tailored supplier lists, detailed comparisons, and global factory tours. Our approach includes comprehensive supplier profiles, financial assessments, and technical reviews. We provide expert advice on negotiating commercial terms, managing contracts, and establishing quality terms to minimize risk and secure favorable warranty conditions.
Long term success and real cost savings
Save time & money: optimize procurement, ensuring cost-effective and reliable supplier choices.
Reduce risk: minimize project delays, quality issues, and warranty disputes.
Gain market advantage: leverage Intertek CEA’s deep market insight to level the competitive playing field.
Problems we help our clients solve
Product Availability: Buyers are facing challenges of supplier availability and their own risk tolerance.
Terms Negotiation: The recent increase in prices and the indexing of supply agreement prices to certain commodities has transferred a significant amount of risk from the seller to the buyer.
Timely Delivery: Slowdowns in manufacturing and logistics, as well as regulatory issues at borders, have led to delays in product delivery.
Product Quality: Buyers are facing quality concerns due to the rapid pace of innovation outpacing reliability testing, the use of lower-cost materials by manufacturers, and the ramp-up of new factories.
Stakeholder Satisfaction: The challenge to satisfy various stakeholders—including employees, financiers, and board of directors—involves meeting corporate social responsibility requirements, ethics requirements, and any new reliability testing and transparency requirements imposed by financiers.
Safe Harbor Strategy Support
Navigating the evolving rules (e.g. IRS guidance) around the “beginning of construction” requirements is critical for solar PV developers aiming to secure tax incentives. At Intertek CEA, we help clients around the world implement robust safe harbor strategies backed by third-party documentation essential for audit defense.
Our global team of specialized engineers and technicians, in partnership with Intertek’s 1,000+ offices worldwide, ensures reliable on-the-ground support wherever your project is located. Not sure where to start? Our market intelligence experts are ready to guide you through today’s regulatory landscape and help you understand the risk to make the most informed decision possible.
Supply Chain Traceability
Intertek CEA provides full-component supply chain traceability audits, mitigating risk and uncertainty in global PV and energy storage supply chains, while offering supply chain transparency, compliance with import laws, and robust third-party audits for solar developers, buyers, and investors.
Transformer Procurement
Power transformers are highly specialized components that play a critical role in utility-scale energy projects. Their complexity, long lead times, and unique specifications make procurement and deployment particularly challenging. Intertek CEA helps reduce project risk by providing deep technical expertise and on-the-ground support across the transformer lifecycle—from sourcing and quality control to expediting and Safe Harbor compliance.
Holistic approach to clean energy supply chain management
Request For Proposal (RFP) Handling:
Supplier list creation & review
Supplier/product analysis & comparison
Relationship management
Global factory visits
Supplier standard checks
Supplier/Product Due Diligence:
Manufacturing capacity & shipment history
Quality benchmarking
Financial records review
Product evaluation & ranking
Risk analysis (policy & import risk)
Equipment Expediting
Contract Management:
Term negotiations & advice
Golden Standard*
Contract oversight
Risk & quality terms
Warranty assurance
*The Golden Standard Service is a set of negotiated technology and quality exhibits, against a ”Golden” industry benchmark, which become part of the purchase contract. The exhibits define the technical and quality requirements for products and production.
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