Consulting inspired by Innovation

Water and Energy for a sustainable Planet: our contribution is to enable promising projects and to promote forward-looking policies.

Vision at Macs

Innovate Life for a Global Future

MACS Energy & Water is an independent consulting company providing expert advice for infrastructure financing.
Our competencies cover water and sanitation, energy efficiency and renewable energy. We are active primarily in
Central and South-Eastern Europe, Latin America, Central Asia and the Middle East.

Mission at Macs

Enable People to Realize
Sustainable Investments

Nicolas Blanc

Energy Market and Policy Consultant

Nicolas Blanc

Energy Market and Policy Consultant

+49 69 943188-0

nicolas.blanc@macsonline.de

Environmental policy & law

Nicolas holds a master’s degree in Engineering from the Ecole des Mines de Paris and also studied Economics and Law at Sciences Po Paris and Université Panthéon-Sorbonne.

He has several years professional experience at the French Environment and Energy Management Agency, advising the French Environment Minister’s staff on public policies for energy efficiency and renewable energies, especially environmental taxation and feed-in tariffs. He took part to a research project aiming at improving European environmental law.

He also helped designing an investment fund and put in place several green credit schemes in some leading European banking institutions. He is used to taking part to the technical and economic evaluation of investment projects. Finally, he has skills in economic modelling and Life Cycle Analysis.

Marina Ilić

Financial Consultant

Marina Ilić

Financial Consultant

+381 11 245 0013

marina.ilic@macsonline.de

Financial affairs advisory

The financial analyst and financial affairs advisor Marina Ilić holds a degree in Marketing and has almost 19 years of professional experience in placements, debt collecting, accounting and balancing, financial reporting, financial and client analysis, in diverse management positions.

She advised the credit committee of a factoring company in Belgrade as a financial analyst, developing, negotiating and implementing repayment schedules and controlling interest rates. She is assigned to the verification of RE-EE loans, provides permanent support for eSave and to respective updates of the MACS eSave online tool. Ms. Ilić is a native Serbo-Croatian speaker and speaks English and French, too.

Valentina Matkovic

Senior eSave implementation and Trainings Consultant

Valentina Matkovic

Senior eSave implementation and Trainings Consultant

+382 31 321370

valentina.matkovic@macsonline.de

eSave Implementation and Trainings

Since over 10 years, Valentina Matkovic Kovacevic has supported the MACS consulting team in the conceptualization and didactical design of MACS training activities and has led or moderated RE/EE trainings and workshops for several KfW and GGF sponsored credit lines. She has worked with loan officers of many banks, e.g. Banka Intesa, Komercijalna Banka and Erste Bank a.d. Novi Sad in Serbia, CKB and Erstebank in Montenegro, as well as Raiffeisenbank in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and helped them adapt to the requirements of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency lending. Furthermore Mrs. Matkovic provides permanent support and training for eSave, the MACS RE/EE calculation tool for RE/EE Credit lines. As the senior EE trainer, she is assigned to the design of training methods and training materials, and to the supervision of training activities.

Tim Meyer

Senior Wind Energy Consultant

Tim Meyer

Senior Wind Energy Consultant

+49 69 943188-0

tim.meyer@macsonline.de

Wind power

Tim Meyer has a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management with focus on Energy Engineering. With over 15 years of professional project experience in financing renewable energy projects and due diligences studies in India, Vietnam, MENA Region, Latin America, China, Ethiopia and the Caribbean countries, he is now our senior expert with specific focus on wind power. His expertise as Team Leader was proven in several large wind and solar energy projects: e.g. in the Atacama Desert in Chile, and through the ex-post evaluation of wind energy projects in developing countries such as Jordan. In Serbia, Tim has carried out the technical due diligence and project monitoring for the La Piccolina Wind Park close to the city of Vršac, which is one of the first wind parks in the county. Besides, Time performed the technical due diligence for other wind park projects in Serbia in the framework of the GGF activities.

German is his mother tongue, but he also speaks French, English and Spanish fluently, which allows him to pursue project challenges without language barriers in many different regions.

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