Green Fuels

Overview

Green fuels are emerging as a cornerstone of the clean energy transition, offering a practical pathway to decarbonise sectors that are difficult to electrify – such as heavy industry, aviation, and maritime transport. Scaling green fuels is not simply a production challenge; it is a system challenge. Developers and investors must navigate uncertainty in policy design and sustainability criteria, persistent cost gaps versus conventional fuels, and complex considerations around feedstock availability, access to renewable power, CO₂ sourcing, and infrastructure readiness at ports and airports. Delivering at pace requires clear, carefully selected no-regret moves – alongside the right project partners and coordinated execution to bridge commercial gaps between generation and offtake. That coordination requires careful consideration and advisor-experience spanning producers, offtakers, regulators, financiers, and infrastructure providers - supported by rigorous analysis and pragmatic delivery planning.

Capabilities

CoralPoint partners with clients across the green fuels value chain to tackle these challenges head-on. We support green fuels strategy and project development by providing deep market insights, robust scenario modelling, and strategic advisory – helping clients navigate demand signals, compliance obligations, and evolving market structures in aviation and maritime. Through our multidisciplinary capabilities in strategy, policy, project management, permitting, and engineering, we deliver integrated support from early-stage concept through investment decision and delivery. By working collaboratively across the ecosystem, we help build the clarity, confidence, and alignment needed to scale green fuels responsibly – and accelerate meaningful deployment where it matters most.

Our Services

From the c-suite to the frontline, we provide end-to-end strategic, technical, and environmental services for our clients

Case Studies

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Green Hydrogen Hub concept and feasibility, UK

Market and feasibility assessment for potential power-to-X project in the UK

Lars Hedemann

Partner, Global Industry Lead - Energy Infrastructure & Green Fuels

Lars is a Founding Partner at Brinckmann, a CoralPoint company. He co-founded Brinckmann in 2018 after having spent 8 years in the wind energy business. He is a commercial energy infrastructure specialist with more than 10+ years of experience with deep industry insights across Wind, Green Fuels and Energy Transmission. Lars leads the firm’s Green Fuels and Energy Infrastructure chapter and has been engaged in both areas in a Renewables context since 2019, advising on both product, project and system level. He is specialised in the Commercial and Regulatory areas of energy transition. Lars has built up his experience by working with and advising a wide range of companies, such as Asset Owners, Developers, Institutional Investors, PE Funds and Supply Chain Players. His work has been anchored within new market entry, valuation and modelling, acquisition and contracting, and commercial optimisation. Prior to founding Brinckmann, Lars has been working in corporate, Siemens Wind Power, as well as consulting, K2 Management. Lars holds an M.Sc. in Strategy, Organization and Management from the Dept. of Business and Social Sciences at Aarhus University. In addition, Lars has spent four years in academia as a Doctoral Researcher in the field of International Business and Marketing.

Emily Kuhn-Keaveney

Co-Regional Lead, Americas

Emily Kuhn-Keaveny is a trusted advisor to investors, developers, and utilities navigating the U.S. energy transition—particularly when the stakes are high and the path forward is complex She brings over a decade of experience in renewable energy project development, technical due diligence, and market strategy. Emily has led diligence efforts on some of the most significant clean energy transactions in the U.S., and her work spans onshore and offshore wind, solar, transmission, and emerging markets. Before joining CoralPoint, Emily was a Consulting Director at ERM and previously worked with the New York Power Authority, where she helped shape the utility’s multi-year clean energy strategy. She is a recognized leader in the industry, having served as the NYC Chapter Lead for Women in Renewable Industries and Sustainable Energy (WRISE). Emily’s passion for conservation, wildlife, and nature started on the beaches of Long Island, where she worked many summers as a Piping Plover Steward.  She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and her two cats.

Chris Clement-Jones

Partner, EMEA

Chris Clement-Jones has over a decade of experience in M&A, finance, and development of major energy infrastructure projects worldwide. With a strong foundation in technical due diligence and project development, Chris has held leadership roles across the value chain—working with lenders, investors, and developers to advance both offshore and onshore wind capacity. His expertise spans offshore wind economics, planning, risk management, and stakeholder engagement. Before joining CoralPoint, Chris served as Development Lead at Havfram, where he managed bid tenders and joint venture origination efforts across Europe. Prior to this he led the Offshore Wind team at UL, specialising in Owners Engineering and Technical Due Diligence. Chris holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde.

Deepak Chinnapa

Partner, Global Service Lead - Strategy & Commercial Advisory

Deepak is a Partner based in our Hamburg office and leads the firm’s global strategy and commercial consulting practice. He joined Brinckmann in 2021 having spent more than a decade in the renewable energy sector within research and consulting. Deepak brings strong industry know-how and advises companies across the renewable energy value chain. Within consulting, Deepak advises a string of companies such as Asset Owners, Developers, Institutional Investors, PE Funds and Supply Chain Players, present across the value chain on key topics across the energy transition landscape. He has extensive experience in supporting companies on commercial due diligence work covering component and service-related M&A opportunities and provides analysis on the market and technology-related forecasts, asset owner strategies, and policy and regulatory developments. Prior to joining Brinckmann, Deepak worked as a Managing Consultant in Wood Mackenzie’s power and renewable business where he provided advisory services covering the wind, solar PV, energy storage, and power markets. In the past, he also worked in the wealth management divisions of Citibank and JP Morgan Chase in India. Deepak holds a B.SC in Business from St. Josephs College of Commerce in India and an MBA from Aarhus University, Denmark.