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Making a wind portfolio legible to the people who finance it
An operator whose asset data was accurate, complete, and impossible for anyone outside engineering to interpret.
- Client
- Nordvik Energy
- Industry
- Renewable energy
- Location
- Oslo, Norway
- Year
- 2025
Services
Our role. Technical assessment, data product design and reporting platform design.
01The problem
Nordvik Energy operates onshore wind across Norway and northern Sweden. Its engineering team had built a genuinely good monitoring stack — sub-minute telemetry, well-modelled, thoroughly instrumented.
The problem was that everyone else in the business had given up on it. The commercial team maintained a parallel monthly spreadsheet. The finance team maintained a third version. Investors received a quarterly PDF assembled by hand over about nine working days.
Nordvik’s initial brief was to build an investor portal. We recommended against it until the reporting definitions were settled, because four teams were using the word ‘availability’ to mean four different things.
02What we did
- 01
Establish what the numbers mean
Before any interface work, we ran a definition exercise across engineering, commercial and finance. Availability, curtailment and lost production each resolved to a single agreed definition, with the disagreements documented rather than smoothed over.
- 02
Design for three literacies
An engineer, a commercial analyst and an investor need the same underlying figure at three different resolutions. We designed one data model with three deliberate views rather than one dashboard attempting to serve everyone.
- 03
Make the derivation visible
Every headline figure can be opened to show how it was calculated and from which readings. This was the single feature that moved the finance team off its spreadsheet.
- 04
Automate the quarterly pack
The investor report is now generated from the same definitions as the operational views, so the three versions of the truth cannot drift apart again.
03What we built
A shared metric layer with one agreed definition per measure, owned by a named person and versioned when it changes.
Three views over the same data — operational, commercial and investor — each designed for its audience rather than configured by them.
Generated quarterly reporting that replaced nine days of manual assembly, with every figure traceable to its source readings.
04Outcome
- Commercial and finance now work from the operational data rather than around it. The parallel spreadsheets have been retired.
- Disagreements about performance are now disagreements about the definition, held once and resolved, rather than repeated every quarter.
- Quarterly investor reporting is produced in an afternoon and carries a link back to the derivation of every figure in it.
- Definitions agreed
- 17
- Parallel spreadsheets retired
- 2
- Quarterly pack assembly
- 9 days to 1
“They talked us out of the thing we asked for and into the thing we needed, in the first three weeks, at their own commercial expense. That is not a common experience with consultancies.”
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