Where Rooftop Projects Go Wrong

The Expensive Mistakes Are Made Before the First Panel Goes Up

Bids You Cannot Compare

Offers built on different modules, inverters and yield assumptions. The lowest price is rarely the lowest cost per kWh over 20 years.

Guarantees Without Teeth

Performance guarantees with no test method, liquidated damages capped at nothing, warranties that never pass to you.

Service Contracts That Favour the Provider

Long take-or-pay terms, tariffs that drift above the EVN rate, undefined buy-out prices and roof terms that block your own expansion.

Roofs and Permits as an Afterthought

Roof load, fire-safety approval, grid registration and insurance left to the owner, and discovered late.

One Team. One Engagement.

The Engineer's Finding Becomes
the Lawyer's Clause the Same Day

Engineering & Commercial

Blueberry Energy

  • Roof, load and yield assessment
  • Technical specification and tender pack
  • Bid evaluation, equipment selection, cost review
  • Design review, site QA/QC, commissioning
  • O&M plan and operating budget review
Legal & Regulatory

Blueberry Law

  • Procurement route and contract structure
  • Tender conditions and contract forms
  • Drafting and negotiating EPC, PPA, lease and O&M
  • Permitting and regulatory compliance
  • Bonds, security, insurance and warranties
Closing the usual gap. In a typical owner's engineer mandate, contract preparation is carved out and "left to the client's lawyer". Technical risks get spotted, then lost between two advisers. With Blueberry, the person who checks the yield model and the person who drafts the performance guarantee work in the same team, on the same timetable.
Three Stages

Engage Us for One Stage,
or Carry Us Through All Three

We join wherever you are. If the tender is already out, we start at bid evaluation. If a provider has sent you a contract, we start with the contract.

01

Advice & Tender

Before you choose a contractor or provider. Typically 4 to 6 weeks.

Engineering & Commercial
  • Roof, structural load and yield check; buy (EPC) versus solar-as-a-service comparison
  • We prepare the technical tender documents: specification, equipment tiers, performance requirements
  • We prepare the commercial tender documents: price schedule, payment milestones, bid forms
  • Ranked evaluation criteria, bid levelling, cost review, award recommendation
Legal
  • Procurement route, contract structure and permitting roadmap (fire safety, construction, grid)
  • We prepare the legal tender documents: instructions to bidders, tender conditions, NDAs, bid bonds
  • Owner-friendly draft EPC, PPA or lease contract issued with the tender
  • Legal review of bidders' mark-ups
You Receive
  • Complete tender documentation (technical, commercial and legal), ready to issue
  • Bid comparison and award memo
  • Permitting roadmap
02

Negotiations & Contract

From preferred bidder to signing. Typically 3 to 6 weeks.

Engineering & Commercial
  • Technical schedules: scope, design, equipment list
  • Performance ratio and yield guarantee test method
  • Payment milestones tied to verifiable progress
  • Tariff, escalation and savings model (service route)
  • Technical position in negotiation meetings
Legal
  • Drafting and negotiating EPC, PPA or lease terms
  • Delay and performance damages, caps, defects liability
  • Performance and warranty bonds, manufacturer warranties
  • Roof access, termination, buy-out and end-of-term transfer
  • Signing and conditions precedent
You Receive
  • Negotiated, signature-ready contract
  • Issues list with agreed positions
  • Board summary of key risks
03

Preparing for Operations

Before handover and commercial operation. Typically 2 to 4 weeks.

Engineering & Commercial
  • O&M plan, KPIs and availability targets
  • Monitoring set-up and your access to the data
  • Annual operating budget and spares
  • Handover documents and warranty register
Legal
  • O&M contract: scope, response times, penalties
  • Operating insurance and claims procedure
  • Ongoing compliance and reporting obligations
  • Invoice and metering rules under service contracts
You Receive
  • Signed O&M contract
  • Owner's operations checklist
  • Compliance calendar
Optional Add-On: Construction to COD For self-invested projects we stay on site as your owner's engineer: supervision, QA/QC and HSE checks, milestone payment validation, punch lists, commissioning and completion certificates. Our lawyers handle claims, variations and delay notices.
Two Routes to a Solar Roof

We Protect You on Both

RouteWhat We Check TechnicallyWhat We Secure Legally

Self-Invest

You own the system. EPC contract plus O&M contract.

  • Design, equipment tier and bankability
  • Yield estimate and performance ratio guarantee
  • Roof structure, fire safety layout, grid connection
  • Fixed price and clear scope, no hidden variations
  • Delay and performance damages backed by bonds
  • Title transfer and assignment of manufacturer warranties

Solar-as-a-Service

A provider owns the system. PPA, lease or DPPA, plus roof use.

  • System size against your real load profile
  • Guaranteed output versus minimum offtake
  • Tariff against the EVN rate over the full term
  • Tariff indexation, take-or-pay and minimum offtake
  • Early buy-out price schedule and end-of-term transfer
  • Roof relocation rights and compliance with Decree 135/2024/ND-CP or Decree 57/2025/ND-CP
Why Blueberry

We Have Sat on the Other Side of the Table

Developer Experience, Used for You

We develop and build rooftop projects ourselves, so we know where EPC and service contracts hide value.

Independent by Rule

When we act as your owner's engineer, we do not bid for your project, and we disclose any relationship with bidders before we start.

German Engineering, Vietnamese Law

International standards and lender-grade documentation, in English and Vietnamese. Vietnam is home; Thailand and wider Southeast Asia with trusted partners.

>80 MWp
C&I rooftop solar delivered by our team
>400 MWp
Utility-scale solar experience
1.3 GW
Wind turbine supply, lead counsel on >20 projects in Vietnam
Selected Engineering Experience
  • 1.5 MWp factory rooftop for a German engineering group: design, project management, technical lead
  • 11 MWp across 10 retail sites: design, project management, coordination with the owner's engineer
  • 6.4 MWp award-winning furniture plant: design, contracts, testing and commissioning
Selected Legal Experience
  • Regulatory frameworks for Vietnam's rooftop solar and battery storage rules
  • Multinationals on the Direct Power Purchase Agreement mechanism
  • Rooftop platforms on EPC, PPA and lease models, and a template rooftop contract set for a development agency and the energy ministry

Includes work led by team members at previous firms.

Solar panels

Let's Look at Your Roof.

First call and document review free of charge. Then a fixed fee per stage, agreed before we start.