Sector expertise
Minerals
Australian Venture Consultants has a deep working knowledge of the Australian and global minerals and resources industry, from primary extraction through processing, material and chemical manufacture and markets. For the past 25 years, Australian Venture Consultants has worked extensively across iron ore, gold, mineral sands, base metals and particularly critical minerals in this regard.
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Australian Venture Consultants has a strong understanding of international prospectivity and developments, resource project economics and the impact of geopolitics on supply chains, minerals markets and project viability. Australian Venture Consultants has also worked extensively in areas of public policy, regulation and social license that impact the industry.
Energy
Australian Venture Consultants has extensive experience in the energy sector, with a key member of its team having a strong background in Australian energy systems operations.
Australian Venture Consultants' expertise in the energy sector includes:
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E&P, domestic gas and LNG markets;
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Clean energy generation systems including solar photovoltaic, onshore and offshore wind, biofuels, nuclear and hydro, as well as emerging clean generation technologies such as hydrogen, pyrolysis, tidal and wave energy;
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Battery and Energy Storage Systems including lithium-ion, lithium iron phosphate and vanadium redox battery chemistries and kinetic systems such as pumped hydro;
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Stand-alone hybrid power systems and microgrids;
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Municipal scale electricity networks.
Agribusiness
Over two decades of working across Australian primary industries and their downstream sectors means that Australian Venture Consultants has extensive knowledge of the Australian seedstock and primary production sectors including livestock, grains, horticulture and fishing and aquaculture sectors, as well as emerging and niche sectors such as honey and traditional produce. Australian Venture Consultants' expertise extends to downstream processing of primary production and the manufacture and marketing of food and beverage products.
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Australian Venture Consultants also has a strong understanding of political, social and environmental aspects of Australian agribusiness and its regulatory framework, including the economic and social factors that impact on these industries, the nature of markets for Australian produce and policy implications.
Natural resource management
Australian Venture Consultants has a deep understanding of Australian ecosystems and ecosystems services and dimensions of the marine and terrestrial conservation estate, how those values intersect with development, and the regulatory and market frameworks that revolve around that intersection.
Regional development
Through our experience engaging with industries that have a significant regional footprint, Australian Venture Consultants has developed a deep understanding of economic, political, social and environmental issues associated with regional development across Australia, and particularly in Northern Australia.
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This understanding goes beyond the mere commercial, social and environmental impacts of projects on regional communities, to a comprehensive understanding of the challenges economic initiatives face in addressing constraints posed by regional and remote project locations, the frustrations that communities sometimes endure and solution to both. This understanding has seen Australian Venture Consultants frequently engaged by regional entities such as national and jurisdictional government, regional development instrumentalities and First Nations organisations to assess regional infrastructure and to prepare regional development strategies.
First Nations economic self-determination and empowerment
Australian Venture Consultants is an Australian First Nations ally, offering First Nations owned and operated enterprises, Prescribed Body Corporates, Land Councils and other community owned organisations and their operational subsidiaries a relatively unique service.
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Through decades of consulting to First Nations organisations and projects and Australian Venture Consultants’ Principal’s board and trustee roles at several First Nations organisations across Australia and honorary academic position at the Australian National University’s First Nations Portfolio, Australian Venture Consultants has a strong understanding of frameworks for economic self-determination and empowerment, the challenges and opportunities facing Australia’s rapidly growing First Nations business sector, as well as the complex operational and governance context that applies to most First Nations enterprise.
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Australian Venture Consultants marries this expertise with its strong understanding of key mainstream sectors that typically intersect with First Nations interests with its highly developed skills in policy, strategy, project and venture creation to deliver a highly effective, respectful and culturally aligned consulting and advisory service to Australian First Nations organisations.