Global Vantage Point
Green hydrogen and PtX auction toolkit
A policy toolkit on designing competitive, financeable auction procedures for green hydrogen and PtX projects in Africa.
Industrial decarbonization
Getting projects financed and built.
We advise development banks, donors, investors and developers on industrial decarbonization projects, from the first feasibility question to financial close. We also represent international technology manufacturers across the Americas.
Clean molecules, gases and the transition in between.
We focus where the hard engineering meets project finance: the fuels, feedstocks and efficiency measures that decarbonize heavy industry.
Clean hydrogen and derivatives
Green hydrogen, ammonia, methanol and PtX, from auction design to signed offtake.
Natural gas as a transition fuel
LNG, CNG and cogeneration structured as a credible bridge, not a stranded asset.
Biomethane and RNG
Biogas upgrading, waste feedstocks and book-and-claim pathways to market.
Waste-to-energy and efficiency
Recovering value from waste streams and industrial heat, and cutting methane at source.
Selected work
African Development Bank
UNEP · Green Climate Fund
Confidential client
GVP project development
Mining · Mexico
Hydrogen hubs capacity building
Capacity building for H2GO, a Green Climate Fund Readiness project led by UNEP across seven Latin American and Caribbean countries, on structuring green hydrogen hubs that investors can finance.
Blue methanol feasibility study in West Texas
A feasibility study for blue methanol production from West Texas natural gas, covering the technical and economic case for investment.
RNG del Norte, dairy RNG in the Comarca Lagunera
A renewable natural gas project built on Paques anaerobic digestion and dairy manure from Mexico's largest milk basin, sized for 5,000 to 15,000 cows. GVP has taken it through the full development package on the road to FID: business plan and financial model, feedstock, site, permitting, offtake and carbon intensity studies, and an investor data room of more than 140 documents now in discussion with capital partners.
Gas-to-power for mines beyond the pipeline
Replacing diesel generation at a gold mine in Chihuahua with natural gas: a 2.2 MW pilot of containerized gas engines, fed with LNG or CNG by virtual pipeline, with storage, decompression and molecule supply under discussion with Mexican gas marketers. The same model is being offered to larger mining operations across Mexico that the pipeline grid does not reach.
Feasibility studies
Techno-economic analysis
Financial advisory
Due diligence
Policy & certification
Carbon finance & Article 6
Methane abatement & MRV
Project development consulting
How we work
Strategic advisory
Project development
Transition & decarbonization
Carbon finance & policy
Advice that moves a project, not a report that sits on a shelf.
Every engagement is scoped against the question that decides the deal, from a focused two-week diagnostic to a full development mandate.
Four practices, one team. Most clients start with one, and the value builds when the same team carries the work into the next.
A financeable, buildable project
Strategic advisory
Project development
Transition & decarbonization
Carbon finance & policy
Scope
Define the decision, the constraints and what success looks like.
Diagnose
Analysis, modelling and due diligence against the real context.
Structure
Shape the pathway, the commercial architecture and the risk allocation.
Mobilize
Position the project for capital and hand lenders a complete, bankable package.
Strategy, development, structuring and commercialization, carried by one team. A feasibility study written by the team that will later structure the offtake leaves fewer gaps for a lender to find.
Technology representation
One relationship, a full portfolio of proven technology.
Our consulting work is global. Our representation practice is focused on the Americas, where we act as the commercial arm of international technology manufacturers: we hold their representation and agency mandates, open the market for them and carry each technology to the plants and projects that need it. Each mandate is shaped around the markets where the manufacturer wants to grow.
The portfolio covers complementary technology lines: industrial and process water treatment, anaerobic solutions and biogas; LNG, CNG and virtual pipelines; cogeneration, heat recovery and gas-to-power; and waste sorting, recycling and waste-to-energy. Because the lines complement each other, one conversation can solve several problems at the same plant.
If you build the equipment, we open the market. If you build the project, we bring the technology.
Manufacturers we represent
Water treatment and biogas, gas supply and virtual pipelines, cogeneration and gas-to-power, and waste-to-energy, presented together to each industrial account.
The portfolio is growing.
If you manufacture proven industrial technology and want a commercial presence in the Americas, we would like to hear from you.
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Leadership
Two operators who have sat on every side of the deal.
Rafael V. Monroy
Chief Executive Officer, Co-founderRafael leads Global Vantage Point with nearly two decades in clean energy and industrial decarbonization, spanning clean hydrogen and derivatives, methane abatement, biomethane, waste-to-energy, carbon finance and natural gas. He has originated and structured landmark transactions across Latin America, MENA, Africa, Central Asia and Southeast Asia, and has worked hand in hand with the major development banks, including the ADB, AfDB, EBRD and World Bank.
Before founding Global Vantage Point, Rafael was a Senior Manager at Tetra Tech and, earlier, founder of MBE CleanTech, where he spent eleven years originating clean molecule and gas projects from concept to close. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering and is completing an MSc in Engineering Business Management at the University of Bath. He works in English, Spanish and French.
Alejandro Marcos
Chief Operating Officer, Co-founderAlejandro brings twelve years as a project developer and technology representative, closing the gap between proven clean energy technology and the projects that need it. His career spans distributed solar and clean molecule development, giving him a rare command of both the engineering and the commercial mechanics of getting projects built.
He previously worked alongside Rafael at MBE CleanTech and held roles at SolarCity, where he helped scale solar deployment, and across a range of developer and OEM representation mandates. As COO, Alejandro runs delivery and leads the firm's equipment representation practice across the Americas.
SAF Signal
Biweekly intelligence on sustainable aviation fuel.
Published every second Sunday. Independent analysis of what moved in SAF, what it cost, and what it changes. No sponsors, no paid placements, no press release reprints.
The SAF race in Latin America. Brazil leads on rules, Argentina on contracts, Mexico on ambition.
Brazil's ProBioQAV mandate starts in 75 days and its regulator has proposed a price for missing it: US$148 (R$750) a metric ton of CO2. Argentina signed its first SAF offtake, TotalEnergies taking most of a 170,000 metric ton plant that YPF's Santa Fe Bio is building on an idle refinery. Mexico held its first SAF summit, and Pemex answered with a feasibility study for a 5,000 barrel a day plant at Pajaritos. Three countries, three ways in, one shared problem: the molecules are planned, the contracts are rare and the plants keep moving to the right.
58 Mgal
Santa Fe Bio, Argentina: 170,000 metric tons a year of SAF and HVO, most of it sold forward to TotalEnergies · 7 Oct 2026
$2.0bn
JetBio's Paulínia plant, redesigned to make SAF or renewable diesel from 476 Mgal of ethanol a year · 8 Oct 2026
648 Mgal
Up to 1.9 million metric tons a year of SAF that corporate buyers could support by 2030, per IATA · 14 Oct 2026
77 Mgal
Pemex feasibility study for a 5,000 bpd cane ethanol SAF biorefinery at Pajaritos, Veracruz · 14 Oct 2026
The Ledger
Six dated events, Latin America first, each with its source number.
ASA SAF-MX Summit
What Mexico's first SAF summit disclosed, and five things to do with it.
Deep Read: Cono Sur
Five markets, three models and about 1,800 million gallons on paper.
Price and Cost Panel
Summit production costs by route, and capital per annual gallon.
Country Scorecard
Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile, with the bibliography.
Rafa's Take
One lesson from a Mexican HEFA project, three dated calls, methodology.
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Publications
White papers, articles and talks by our principals.
Published work on the technical and financial questions our clients are actually pricing: fuel pathways, LNG and gas infrastructure, water constraints, transition finance.
Latin America’s LNG Buildout: Where the Next Floating Terminals, Cargoes and Capital Will Go, 2026 to 2030
Global Vantage Point, Gas and LNG Practice, October 2026
Maps seven LNG markets moving at the same time, the FSRU squeeze, Washington’s role as supplier, financier and gatekeeper, and a 15-project watchlist with the next commercial trigger and the equipment packages still open. Includes GVP’s priority ranking for technology providers.
Hydrogen hubs: from isolated projects to integrated green hydrogen ecosystems
UN Environment Programme (UNEP), H2GO project of the Green Climate Fund, 2 September 2026 · In Spanish
Dozens of green hydrogen projects are announced across Latin America and the Caribbean, and very few reach a final investment decision. A briefing for government teams from Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, El Salvador and Honduras on how hubs aggregate demand, share infrastructure and distribute risk, with four regional archetypes, lessons from the United States, Europe, Chile and Uruguay, and a practical route to a first hub in six to nine months.
A Bankable eSAF Future in MENA: Balancing Investor Returns with Airline and Off-taker Demand
Global Vantage Point, July 2026
Sets out what it takes for e-SAF to clear in MENA: the cost stack, the return threshold investors need, and the off-take structures airlines can realistically sign.
Electrolyzers for Hydrogen Production: Technical and Economic Characteristics
World Bank & Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), 2026
A global assessment of electrolyzer technologies for clean hydrogen: cost trajectories, deployment strategies, infrastructure requirements and the policy frameworks emerging markets need to build a hydrogen sector.
Quenching the Thirst for Water in Hydrogen Production
Tetra Tech Insights
Examines water demands across hydrogen production technologies and proposes water-management strategies for water-scarce regions.
Decarbonizing Southeast Asia's Hard-to-Abate and High-Emitting Sectors: Transition Finance, Technologies, and Policy Approaches
Asian Development Bank (ADB), ERIA & Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan), 2025
Analyzes financing mechanisms, policy levers and technology pathways to decarbonize power, heavy industry and other emissions-intensive sectors across Southeast Asia.
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Based in Mexico City and Chicago. Working across the Americas, MENA, Africa and Asia.
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