Who we are
Wert-Berater, Inc. has prepared independent feasibility studies for lenders, certified development companies, and federal agencies since 1998 — more than four thousand engagements representing $40.2 billion in evaluated project value across all fifty states and international assignments. Our fiduciary duty runs to the lender and the agency, never to the sponsor’s optimism: fees are fixed, quoted up front, never contingent on findings, and a determination is never changed under pressure.
What we do
Biofuel feasibility is feedstock-spread analysis under policy exposure: the margin between feedstock cost and fuel value including credits, feedstock supply security within economic reach, offtake agreements and blending demand, and the policy instruments — RFS volumes, LCFS, tax credits — modeled at conservative value and duration. Ethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel, and SAF each carry distinct technology and margin profiles the study addresses specifically.
How we do it
The analysis combines feedstock supply mapping and pricing, credit and fuel price series, offtake review, and capital benchmarks by pathway. Spread sensitivity with reduced credit value is the controlling stress case.
How we can help you
Clean-energy engagements are prepared to USDA RD Instruction 5001 where REAP and B&I apply — including the energy-production documentation, incentive analysis, and payback arithmetic REAP requires — and to conventional and institutional standards otherwise, with interconnection and incentive risk addressed directly rather than assumed away. Representative clean-energy work includes a $52,688,000 green carbon project evaluation and renewable-energy feasibility within the firm's USDA REAP and B&I practice.
How to engage us
Standard delivery is 10 to 15 business days from complete project data. Rush delivery for deals already in underwriting is accepted case by case for an additional fixed fee, quoted up front and committed in writing. Engagements are typically initiated by the borrower, with lender or CDC confirmation obtained before work begins — institutions differ, so confirm the procedure with your lending contact.