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We serve the dominant market share of Fortune 500 energy and utility clients, and our integrated service offerings address the key challenges they face, from industry consolidation and regulatory changes to corporate governance and globalization
When it comes to improving operational effectiveness, we stand ready to assist as clients cope with such issues as:
- Pressure to meet growth and performance targets
- Commodity price risk management
- Long-term oversupply of generation capacity
- Divestiture of non-core assets
- Commodity/fuel price volatility
- Failure to realize synergy savings from acquisitions
- Outdated legacy systems, particularly customer information
Power Companies
Our energy practitioners serve a variety of companies in the power generation / energy transacting market. We actively serve a variety of clients to help them overcome numerous challenges that characterize energy markets, including:
- Non-regulated electric utilities
- Power marketers
- Power brokers
- Energy trading organizations
- Non-utility power producers, including independent power producers, co generators, merchant generators and small power producers.
Our experts are also engaged in serving clients with growth and diversification needs. A successful strategy for growth and diversification can lead to increased shareholder value. Key challenges in this area include:
- Analysis of business combination accounting developments
- Acquisition due diligence
- Fixed assets and intangibles valuation
- Development of tax structures for domestic and international operations
- Risk management of foreign currency
Regulated Utilities
Not all electric utilities are regulated the same way. Our experts in the regulated utilities segment serve a variety of organizations in a variety of ways. Whether providing testimony on behalf of a shareholder-owned utility regulated by a state's public utility commission, or advising a utility about wholesale transactions regulated by FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission), our knowledgeable and experienced practitioners are ready to assist our clients.
Key regulatory concerns remain in areas such as:
- Codes of conduct and affiliate standards
- Cost allocations
- Capital asset cost recovery
- Performance-based ratemaking
- Federal and state regulatory trends and developments
- Accounting developments affecting regulated operations
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Tax
- Unbundling
- Stranded costs
- Energy transacting
- Energy efficiency
- Energy conservation
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