how we can help you…
Network businesses
We can help network businesses successfully deliver a range of regulatory and strategic projects, including:
assistance preparing regulatory proposals and submissions
providing strategic regulatory and policy analysis and advice
preparing high-quality asset management and business documentation
performing strategic analysis, modelling, research and advice on asset management
assistance preparing project and program justifications and business cases
We can work directly with the regulatory or network group, and we often act as an interface between the groups on important strategic regulatory projects.
Regulators and rule makers
Our engineering, technical and regulatory experience means we can help regulators and rule makers with a range of tasks, including:
assessing regulatory proposals and submissions
economic regulatory design and application advice
strategic industry reviews and regulatory-technical advice
compliance and non-compliance reviews of service standards
Typically, we are engaged as an independent advisor to a regulator or rule maker, providing an independent report, which forms an input to their deliberations. But we can be engaged to work directly within the regulator’s or rule maker’s team, providing resources for the analysis and advice supporting their decisions.
Other industry stakeholders
Our engineering, technical and regulatory experience means we can help other industry stakeholders, including consumer representatives, in their dealings with regulators, rule makers, network businesses, and other stakeholders, including:
assessing network businesses’ regulatory proposals or the regulator’s decision
economic regulatory design and application advice
strategic industry reviews and regulatory-technical advice
We can be engaged as an independent advisor to a stakeholder, providing an independent report, which forms supporting document to their submission. Or we can be engaged to work directly within the stakeholder’s team, providing resources for the analysis and advice supporting their submissions.
Buyers and sellers of network businesses
Our engineering, technical and regulatory experience with the electricity industry means we can help various parties involved in the privatisation or sale of electricity network businesses.
Our work with regulators and rule-makers - often providing engineering and technical advice on multi-discipline projects - means we are particularly suited to these types of transactions, where it will be necessary to effectively communicate relevant technical matters to non-technical people and ensuring that non-technical factors are allowed for in the technical advice.