Project Finance Structured Schemes

GREENFIELD PROJECTS

Metito Utilities excels in developing water assets through BOT, BOO, full concessions, and PPP models. With strong financial capabilities and a commitment to sustainability, the company delivers world-class water facilities while extending its expertise to other utilities, reinforcing its position as a leader in infrastructure development.

Metito Utilities brings extensive experience in developing greenfield water and wastewater assets under BOT, BOO, full concessions and PPP models.

Each project is meticulously planned and designed to meet client needs throughout the contract lifecycle. By addressing both technical and commercial requirements, Metito Utilities ensures optimal solutions are tailored for every client.

In PPP projects, Metito Utilities collaborates closely with government ministries and stakeholders to align developments with sector master plans. This includes factoring in demand-supply models, downstream network capabilities, affordability analyses and financial impacts. These considerations ensure projects are socially, environmentally, economically sustainable while driving sector-wide development.

With strong relationships across financial institutions and key decision makers, Metito Utilities structures efficient, bespoke financing solutions, that uniquely address the needs of each project, enabling long-term success and resilience.

BROWNFIELD PROJECTS

Metito Utilities leverages its forward-looking management techniques and proven expertise to enhance operational efficiency and optimize existing resources. With a strong track record, the company specializes in assessing existing water assets, recommending world-class solutions, and executing scalable project expansions and revamps, under a long-term contract.

Through the Takeover-Operate-Transfer (TOT) model, Metito Utilities conducts comprehensive asset conditions and develops a lifecycle plan, outlining the necessary investments for full rehabilitation. The company undertakes the responsibility for raising the necessary financing requirements and implementing the rehabilitation plan to enhance system efficiency and deliver optimal operational performance.

Clients benefit from a world-class operational service governed by a performance-based approach, while also offloading the responsibility of asset management. Metito Utilities takes on the planning, financing, expanding, and operating of brownfield projects, enabling clients to focus on their core priorities with confidence.

OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

Under an Operation and Maintenance Contract, management, operation and the rehabilitation of downstream assets, distribution networks, and house service connections are all managed by Metito Utilities. The company provides client support in monitoring and following up on such work ensuring full integration of new works within the existing network. MUL also ensures that all new assets are properly recorded in the client’s inventory.

The company utilises state of the art digitalised mapping, computerised models, and asset management systems to optimise operational performance, ensuring service continuity, and minimising interruptions. Special attention is given to works that may interfere with the continuity of water supply, assuring that interruptions are limited to the minimum necessary and that the distributed water quality is not affected by these disturbances.

CUSTOMER SERVICE, METERING, BILLING AND COLLECTION MANAGEMENT CONTRACTS

These services focus on enhancing existing processes, procedures, resources, collection and bad debt management. This is achieved by either undertaking the full scope of responsibility on behalf of the client, or by providing management support to the existing team.

By managing customer service, billing, and collection management, Metito Utilities conducts an assessment of the existing processes, procedures, resources (tools and systems), hardware and software dedicated to billing, collection, bad debt management practices, human capital allocated to customer relationship and revenue stream management. Following the assessment a commercial management plan is set to outline necessary improvements to inventory, procedures, consumption metering and tariff structure amongst others. MUL then manages the implementation of the plan involving the training of client’s staff, based on the strengths and weaknesses identified during the assessment of human capital skills.

NON-REVENUE WATER (NRW) REDUCTION

The optimisation of downstream networks (by tackling both technical and commercial losses) ensures unaccounted for water is kept at a minimum, thus allowing for efficient management of existing water resources, and generating significant savings to the client. MUL provides NRW reduction services through short term management programs or longer term performance based contracts.

MUL’s approach to a NRW reduction program is based on three main vectors: strict diagnosis of the state of the water supply system and water loss (real and apparent); definition of the adequate strategy; action plan to develop a rigor implementation.

The NRW reduction program is prepared to achieve the following, commonly sought after objectives:

• Cost optimisation in the following areas; intake and water treatment, energy consumption, maintenance of the systems and operational management
• Protection of water resources and the surrounding environment through the reduction of real water losses, rational use and reduced water waste, reduction of the environmental impact of works to expand storage and treatment of water
• Increasing collection turnover by improving the metering accuracy
• Decreasing the amount of illegal/fraudulent connections

During the diagnosis stage several opportunities for improvement may be identified which form the basis of the strategy, recommended methodologies and procedures. MUL offers the following services to apply the agreed on strategy such as planning and monitoring, planning and implementation, and management of the water supply system to ensure a reduction of consistent losses over the years of the project implementation. In this last option, a better performance of the water supply system can be obtained through the effective management of tasks and the respective resources.