Services
Everything we do is geared to help you make smarter decisions
Our Services
Our clients have complex energy needs that demand a highly tailored approach. Our expert knowledge and intelligent support enables you to make smarter decisions.
ADVANCED
HEDGING
A highly active and intelligent energy management service, using advanced hedging techniques.
ENERGY
CONSULTING
We solve complex issues, so you make better, faster, smarter decisions – and avoid the mistakes of others.
RENEWABLE
GENERATION
An end-to-end service that identifies, qualifies and delivers renewable technologies.
The energy system is going through systemic change
Our clients have complex energy needs that demand a highly tailored approach. Our expert knowledge and intelligent support enables you to make smarter decisions.
Whats changing?
Energy generation always used to be dominated by a few large coal-fired power stations connected to the transmission grid. Consumers were largely passive. Today, power is increasingly generated by many small producers – often behind the meter. Coal has all but disappeared. Gas fired power stations are there to cover peaks in demand. And battery technology is advancing and will offer an alternative to gas and hydro for flexible power in the future.
As a result:
- The market is no longer centralised - its decentralised nationally and interconnectors link us to other countries’ networks
- Through automation, and encouraged by incentives, consumers are increasingly active participants in the electricity system
- Energy distribution is no longer one way - today decentralised excess generation is being injected back into the grid
- Demand is increasingly electrified and responsive
- Large corporates can play an active role in the system, both producing and flexibly consuming – compared to the old, passive approach of simply being a consumer of energy
A business needs to understand
- All the layers of regulation (e.g. the cost of carbon)
- The impact the electrification trends (e.g. electric vehicles) will have on demand
- How to manage demand
- The impact of the scarcity of supply in days of no wind and limited solar
- Whether to buy from the market or invest in a self-generating asset
- The cost of financing
- All the risks involved - price risk, credit risk, volume risk, imbalance risk, technological risk, maintenance and operations risk, insurance risk, and warranty risk
And you can’t apply the normal procurement techniques to energy. You can’t look backwards to know what do to.
- There is rapid structural change underway
- The technological change going on is immense
- The price of energy is majorly driven by a volatile commodity market
To make the right long term financial choices, which is often 15-20 years into the future, a business needs to understand all of this, and do so within the context of its own capital structures.
