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Fast route
Professional Check
Five due-diligence tests, one milestone conflict and a final professional evidence assessment.
- Five focused lessons
- 10 scored questions
- Answer rationales after submission
About 15 minutes
Vitreous Learning 10
Professional BESS course · Great Britain
Test whether the project is the project
Reconcile identity, land, planning, connection, equipment, contracts, finance and schedule. Grade each claim by the strongest evidence that actually supports it.
2 learning routes80% pass standard30 assessment questions
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Evidence ledNESOCompanies HouseGOV.UKTechnical cut-off · 24 August 2026
One subject · two depths
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This final course integrates the programme into a repeatable red-flag and evidence workflow for project, investment and market analysis.
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Full route · recommended
Detailed Course
From identity and ownership through land, planning, connection, procurement, contracts, financing, schedule and an integrated project case.
- Nine detailed modules
- Riverside worked case
- 20 scored questions
75 to 90 minutes
Scores and progress remain on this device. No account or sign-up is required.
Professional Check · About 15 minutes
Can you decide what stage the project has actually reached?
Replace promotional stage labels with an evidence-backed project status and explicit open conditions.
Lesson 1 of 5
Resolve project identity
Map public name, site, phase, SPV, owners, developers, BM Units and connection records before combining evidence.
Use company numbers and document references rather than names alone. Track ownership changes, charges, dormant status and filing dates. A developer brand may sit above several project companies.
Record which entity holds land, planning, connection, equipment and market contracts.
Hostile check
A project can appear complete when evidence from two similarly named phases is accidentally combined.
Lesson 2 of 5
Read land and planning as conditions
Consent, land rights and discharged conditions answer different readiness questions.
Check site boundary, capacity, layout, duration, access, drainage, ecology, noise, safety and decommissioning conditions. Record judicial or appeal risk where relevant.
Confirm option or lease term, exclusivity, easements, cable route and lender step-in.
Hostile check
Planning approval does not prove that pre-commencement conditions or cable rights are complete.
Lesson 3 of 5
Audit the connection
Use agreement status, Gate classification, import and export rights, works, securities and delivery dependencies.
Reconcile public register data to the executed or countersigned agreement. Identify customer and network works, long-stop dates, milestones and termination rights.
A future connection date should be reported with its conditions and evidence date.
Hostile check
A register row can be real while the project remains unable to reach financial close or energisation.
Lesson 4 of 5
Test procurement and contracts
A named OEM, EPC or optimiser is evidence only when scope, price, validity, conditions and signature are clear.
Distinguish request for proposal, preferred bidder, term sheet, notice to proceed and binding contract. Reconcile technical configuration with planning, connection and safety evidence.
Map warranties, delay damages, performance guarantees, security and interface risk.
Hostile check
A supplier logo on a project slide does not prove a binding equipment order.
Lesson 5 of 5
Conclude with a stage and red flags
Use evidence-defined stages such as concept, consented, contracted, ready to build, under construction, energised and operational.
Define the minimum evidence for each stage. List open conditions, owner, deadline and consequence. Separate fatal, material and monitor items.
Publish an as-of date. Due diligence is a snapshot that must be refreshed as evidence changes.
Hostile check
A traffic-light summary without evidence links and decision thresholds can conceal the most important uncertainty.
Professional Check assessment
Answer every question before submitting. Correct answers and rationales appear only after the complete attempt.
Professional CheckQuestion 1 of 10
Detailed Course · 75 to 90 minutes
Build a defensible project evidence room
Reconcile documents across every critical workstream and trace each conclusion to dated evidence.
Module 1 of 9
Create the project identity graph
Connect names, company numbers, addresses, coordinates, planning references, connection identifiers and market units.
Use exact identifiers and record confidence for each edge. Check directors, persons with significant control, charges, group structure and transaction history.
Separate developer, owner, land company, construction entity, asset SPV and operator.
Hostile check
Matching on name and county alone can merge separate projects or phases.
Module 2 of 9
Audit corporate capacity and title
Confirm the entity can enter, fund and transfer the project obligations claimed.
Review incorporation, filings, charges, insolvency indicators, authorisations and ownership. Reconcile corporate signatories with contract parties.
For land, inspect option or lease conditions, term, rent, security, access, cable easements and change of control.
Hostile check
Owning shares in an SPV does not automatically transfer land or connection rights held elsewhere.
Module 3 of 9
Reconstruct planning status
Read the decision notice, approved drawings, legal agreement, conditions and discharge record together.
Check consented MW, MWh, layout, technology envelope, access, drainage, fire response, noise, ecology, archaeology and decommissioning. Identify pre-commencement and pre-operation conditions.
Track amendments and whether the procurement design remains within consent.
Hostile check
A later equipment layout can invalidate reliance on the approved drawing even when headline capacity is unchanged.
Module 4 of 9
Reconstruct connection status
Read Gate, rights, date, point, works, securities, milestones and operational conditions as one package.
Compare the agreement with current public registers and reform notices. Confirm import and export capacity, shared assets, non-firm clauses and network dependencies.
Test whether land and planning evidence satisfy connection milestones.
Hostile check
A project can have planning consent and still lose its connection position if milestones are missed.
Module 5 of 9
Audit technical configuration and procurement
The selected design must fit the consent, connection, safety evidence, warranty duty and commercial model.
Review single-line diagram, equipment schedule, energy and power guarantees, degradation, augmentation, fire tests, controls, transformer, switchgear and metering.
Map supply, EPC, LTSA, O&M and optimiser interfaces. Identify gaps and duplicate scope.
Hostile check
A low EPC price can reflect exclusions that reappear as owner scope and interface risk.
Module 6 of 9
Audit commercial and market contracts
Connection, Capacity Market, optimiser, toll, land, insurance and O&M obligations must coexist.
Check exclusivity, term, milestones, credit, security, change in law, assignment, lender step-in and termination. Reconcile contracted capacity and dates across documents.
Test whether service and revenue assumptions fit technical and connection constraints.
Hostile check
Two individually valid contracts can conflict over control, availability or the same capacity.
Module 7 of 9
Test funding and sources and uses
Binding commitments, conditions precedent and contingency determine whether the project can reach notice to proceed.
Reconcile equity, debt, grants and vendor finance with CAPEX, development, connection, land, taxes, fees, reserves and contingency. Check cost validity dates and FX exposure.
Map funding conditions to planning, land, connection, contracts and insurance.
Hostile check
A financing announcement can describe a facility that the project cannot draw until material conditions are satisfied.
Module 8 of 9
Build the integrated schedule and red-flag log
Every milestone should have an evidence source, owner, dependency, float and consequence.
Link condition discharge, land completion, connection, procurement, factory tests, delivery, construction, commissioning, energisation and market qualification.
Classify fatal, material, manageable and monitor items with action and decision deadline. Update the status as evidence changes.
Hostile check
A detailed schedule with no network outage confirmation remains vulnerable at its energisation milestone.
Module 9 of 9
Riverside worked due-diligence conclusion
The final conclusion states the stage, evidence, open conditions and next decision gate.
Riverside has planning consent for 100 MW and 200 MWh. Three pre-commencement conditions remain undischarged. Its public connection record is Gate 1. The land option runs for eighteen more months. The OEM document is a non-binding term sheet and financing is an indicative mandate.
The defensible stage is consented development. Gate 2 connection status, planning discharge, binding equipment and funded sources are required before ready-to-build status. The land-option expiry is the critical deadline linking these workstreams.
Defensible stageConsented development
Critical deadlineLand option · 18 months
Next gateConnection, conditions, contracts
Hostile check
Calling Riverside ready to build would convert contingent evidence into completed milestones and hide the land deadline.
Detailed Course assessment
Answer every question before submitting. Correct answers and rationales appear only after the complete attempt.
Detailed CourseQuestion 1 of 20