Project Rán for Investors
and Co-Investors
Scalable Project Model for a Growing Infrastructure Market
Project Rán addresses a market that is growing through three developments at the same time: the expansion of offshore wind energy, the increasing importance of maritime critical infrastructure and the growing need for protection, monitoring and verification structures.
For investors, Project Rán is therefore not merely a technical project. It is a scalable project model at the intersection of energy supply, security, infrastructure, drone technology, sensors, controlcentre operation, data processing and operator services. The market does not consist only of individual wind farms. Operator clusters, offshore substations, service hubs, ports, coastal infrastructure, grid connections, operation centres, maintenance structures and maritime security areas are also relevant. This cluster logic in particular makes Project Rán scalable.
The initial focus area of the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and the United Kingdom/Ireland comprises more than 34 GW of existing offshore wind capacity and around 68 GW of pipeline capacity. Existing assets create demand for retrofitting and operator services. Projects under construction and in planning offer starting points for the early integration of security, verification and control-centre structures.
Project Rán is developed in different business models. These include operator solutions, leasing or service models, project companies, co-investment structures, licensing models, regional service hubs, control-centre models or combined CAPEX/OPEX structures.
The economic logic is based on a modular approach. One-off services include site analysis, ConOps, control-centre integration, docking installation, cybersecurity baseline and optional datafeed
integration. Recurring services are reflected through service levels: from basic operation through 24/7 verification to multi-park cluster models and enhanced compliance/resilience models.
Scenario calculations for offshore wind farms with capacities of 600 MW and 1,000 MW, as well as the concrete reference model of the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm with an operating capacity of 1.529 GW, show that Project Rán can generate significant economic effects where the operator structure is suitable. The main drivers are, in particular, avoided or better-prepared mobilisations, faster situational assessment, reduced decision-making delays and improved documentation.
In the conservative reference model for the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm, an annual gross saving of approximately €4.30 million is assumed. This consists of avoided relevant offshore mobilisations and a cautious downtime scenario in which not the entire wind farm, but an affected sub-area is taken into account. The specific values depend on park size, location, mobilisation costs, electricity price, system scope, park layout, outage statistics and operator structure.
Depending on the project structure, HUB67 or a project company initially assumes essential investment and integration costs itself. Refinancing is effected through operator payments, service fees, savings participation, licensing models, co-investments or combined structures. For ongoing remuneration, a model based on approximately 25% of the saved or economically attributable costs serves as the basic logic.
Project Rán is therefore suitable for investors who do not merely wish to invest capital in a single product, but seek access to a scalable project, operator and service structure. Capital is integrated into identifiable infrastructure, technology and operator services and is economically structured through operator agreements, service fees, savings participation, licensing models, co-investments or project companies.
On the basis of these conservative working assumptions, the reference model results in an annual net relief for the operator of approximately €3.20 million after HUB67 remuneration. With technical investment and integration costs of approximately €10.16 million and an illustrative pre-financing period of 18 months with a calculated capital remuneration of 10% p.a., the reimbursable investment amount is approximately €11.70 million. The calculated operator amortisation period is therefore approximately 3.6 years. Over a ten-year contractual term, after recovery of the initial investment including pre-financing remuneration, a cumulative economic net effect of approximately €20 million remains in favour of the operator.
In addition to the calculated savings, further qualitative advantages arise: better technical verification, faster situational clarification, structured incident documentation, stronger compatibility with authorities and security actors, improved operator processes and a more robust basis for future security and resilience requirements.
The pre-seed phase of the overall project, including the capitalisation of the participating companies, as well as the vast majority of the seed phase of Project Rán, including business planning, the selection and integration of essential partners and the acquisition of rights required for the implementation of the project, have been and continue to be provided by the project developers.
Two of the project developers, Ce58 Mining Industry GmbH, based in Hamburg, and SevenSisters Military Goods Inc., based in Toronto, are registered as lobbyists in the Lobby Register of the German Bundestag for the defence and arms industry. This involvement creates an additional framework for introducing suitable project developments into discussions with relevant actors in an orderly, transparent and institutionally compatible manner.
Are you looking for access to a scalable infrastructure and security project?
Then speak to HUB67 about possible participation, co-investment or project company structures.
