Gesto offers consulting services and tailor-made, turnkey solutions in every field of renewable energy and energy policy.
One of our main fields of expertise: electrification and energy master plans, including demand forecast, levelised cost methodologies and least-cost planning for grid expansion. Angola Energy 2025, Mozambique Energy Strategy 2014–2023, Cape Verde’s National Plan, Nepal, East Timor, and sector assessments for the CEMAC, PEAC and EGL regions.
Gesto has analysed nearly 5 million km² worldwide and assessed more than 50,000 MW of projects, using GIS tools such as r.sun, Solar Analyst, WRF, MM5, WindFarmer, WAsP and WISDOM, alongside custom-built software. Cape Verde Atlas, Mozambique Atlas, Nigeria web-based GIS tool.
Support across every phase, from greenfield to commissioning: prospecting, permitting, grid connection, owner’s engineering and construction supervision.
Evaluating project potential and economic viability for investors: hydropower mapping in Lao PDR, wind resource in Cuanza Norte, CSP in Namibia, geothermal potential in Morocco, small hydro in Vietnam, pumped storage in Spain and Cape Verde.
Power flow analysis and dynamic studies for renewable grid integration, using ANAREDE, PSS/E, GTMax and GIS. REGIS in Lesotho, grid studies in Angola, capacity and stability and selectivity studies across the Cape Verde islands.
A breakthrough approach to rural electrification planning using geospatial analysis. Master plans in Nepal and Liberia, Senegal’s programme, and ECOWAS investment prospectuses for nine West African countries.
Proprietary tools for identifying and controlling technical and non-technical losses. Programmes in Cape Verde and ENDE’s technical loss reduction project in Angola.
Asset registration and management, and an integrated solution for monitoring technical and non-technical losses across the distribution grid. Implementations in Cape Verde and Angola.
Supporting utilities in reorganising commercial processes, billing systems and revenue recovery.
Supporting governments and developers in project financing and procurement. Mini-hydro public tenders in Portugal; integrated plan for fostering PPP in Angola’s electricity sector.
Advising decision-makers on suitable legislation and policy: Angola’s Electricity Act, prepaid meters regulation, Cape Verde’s regulatory framework for renewable licensing, renewable land zoning across the islands.
Clean Development Mechanism project development, including for EDM in Mozambique.