MicroLink Host Partner Proposal

Before anything is signed

Site Design

Everything below starts from your metered demand rather than from our standard drawing. The thing that goes wrong with heat offtake is a design built on an assumed load: a delivery grade the loop cannot take, a pipe route nobody walked, a tie in on a board with no spare capacity. The survey happens before anything is signed, so if your loop does not fit, that is the moment it surfaces.

Survey:Half a dayOne visit on site, against a fixed data request, with whatever metering you already hold

The survey

We start from what you already burn, meaning thermal demand hourly where you hold it, loop supply and return, flow, and the seasonal shape of the load
The loop condition decides the delivery route, whether native 55 °C (131 °F) feeds your process directly or a lift is required, and on whose side of the exchanger it sits
The electrical position is checked at the board, not assumed from a single line drawing, so the tie in point is real before it is drawn
The pipe route is walked, so the run under 200 m (656 ft) of buried soft dig is a surveyed route rather than a straight line on a plan

Capital from you:ZeroAt every stage, including on your side of the exchanger where the loop already fits

The footprint

Two high cube ISO containers on a slab, plus a setback for the dry cooler field, under a licence to occupy that covers that footprint and nothing beyond it
Nothing is built on your site. The containers arrive as finished blocks, so what happens inside your fence is placement and connection rather than construction
The rejection path is dry, so there is no water draw, no evaporative makeup and nothing new on your discharge permit at any duty
Structural loading is designed to ASCE 7-16 against the concentrated rack case, and the slab specification is issued with the site arrangement

Design freeze:Your figuresNothing is drafted against an assumed demand. If the loop does not fit, we say so

The interfaces

Three demarcations and no more: one electrical at 480 VAC three phase, one thermal at the handover exchanger, one for controls. Each is drawn, agreed and signed before anything arrives
Our controls sit apart from your OT, with no shared network path and no dependency in either direction between our plant and your process control
The metering point is fixed with the design on EN 1434, so the basis you will be settled against is known before you commit to anything
Design freeze is the point terms are drafted. Nothing is signed against a drawing that is still moving

If your loop does not fit the delivery grade, the survey is where that surfaces. That is the point of doing it before heads of terms rather than after.

The sequence

Delivery and Operations

Construction

The largest reason a host says no is not the commercial terms. It is the picture of a building site inside a live plant: the crane over the process, the road closed for a month, the trades nobody vetted walking past the control room. There is no ground up construction here. The slab and the pipe run are the only civil works, and both are scoped against your shutdown calendar rather than ours.

Tie In and Commissioning

Two connections touch your plant and each is a planned event with a written method statement. The electrical tie in is a single point at 480 VAC three phase behind your existing meter. The thermal tie in lands at the handover exchanger, and where the connection into your loop needs an isolation window, that window is yours to set.

Living With It

Day to day, the pod is a fenced compound inside your site that hums and takes nothing from you. Our staff attend on a maintenance regime and hold their own spares. Access is agreed at heads of terms rather than negotiated at the gate, your safety regime governs while they are inside your fence, and incident authority is named in writing rather than left to practice.

Metering and Settlement

Fifteen years is a long time to be paid on a basis nobody explained. What is measured, where the meter sits, what arrives on the statement each month, and what happens when the two of us disagree about a reading.

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