How do build-out, utilisation, pricing, and operating assumptions shape project performance?
Model profile
Sorghum Bioethanol
Australian grain-sorghum dry-grind bio-refinery on the Sugar Cane Bioethanol architecture: fuel ethanol, DDGS, wet distillers grains, captured CO2 and distillers oil, with grower contracts, excise and mandate policy tests, drought and side-selling stress, a drying optimiser, and an investor and lender toolkit.
Decision scope
Questions this model helps you examine
What capital, replacement, working capital, and financing programme is required?
How resilient are cash flows and returns under operational and market downside cases?
Model capabilities
What this model includes
The profile below is generated from the same catalogue and workspace definitions used by the application.
- Own-farm, purchased, and hybrid grain strategies
- Dryland sorghum cycles, land, grower contracts, and harvest procurement
- Fuel ethanol, DDGS, wet distillers grains, captured CO2, and distillers-oil economics
- Role-level labour, CAPEX, working capital, multi-facility debt, and liquidity
- Covenant schedules, three financial statements, valuation, scenarios, sensitivity, and Monte Carlo
- XLSX, PDF, and CSV bundle exports
Build the case
Inputs and workspaces
- AssumptionsCase, farm, plant, commercial, cost, finance, liquidity, and analytics controls
- Input schedulesCAPEX, role-level labour, grower and offtake contracts, debt facilities, and annual driver schedules
Review the result
Outputs and analysis
- Project NPVAUD
- Project IRRAnnual
- Equity IRRAnnual
- Equity multipleMultiple on invested equity
- Minimum DSCRLowest period
- Loan life cover ratioLowest period
- Minimum cashAUD
- Financial statementsDetailed schedules
- Operations, bankability & analyticsDetailed schedules
Designed for review
Who this model is for
- Infrastructure sponsors
- Operating and engineering teams
- Financial advisers
- Investors and lenders
Governed evidence
The review trail stays with the result.
Each completed calculation preserves the model version, saved inputs, reporting-currency snapshot, immutable run, and result fingerprint used for its reports.
- Version-controlled calculation logic
- Saved assumptions and scenarios
- Immutable calculation runs
- Reporting context preserved in exports
Ready to explore the case?