Your need and our areas of expertise

Energy transition

The energy transition is motivated by the reduction of greenhouse gases to lessen climate change. The core remains the build-up of renewable energy generation. Challenges and emerging topics include the energy storage and hydrogen and ammonium in particular, the provision of flexibility, energy security and grid stability.

our understanding of the

Renewable Market

  • Support schemes in Europe
  • Risks associated with renewables and mitigation thereof
  • PPA's and their characteristics

our understanding of the

Physicality of Renewables

  • Short term trading
  • (Re-) Dispatch
  • Market communication

our understanding of the

Commercialization of Renewables

  • Target operating models for renewables
  • Green certificates
  • Trading capabilities for renewables
  • Renewable portfolio management

our understanding of

Battery Energy Storage Systems

  • Optimization of storage
  • Capacity management & ancillary services
  • Technical connectivity
  • Business & investment cases
  • Storage integration in existing portfolio

our understanding of

Hydrogen & Ammonium

  • Logistics
  • Integration of value of hydrogen & ammonium in business cases

our understanding of

Gas Powerplants

  • Provision of flexibility & flexibility optimization
  • Ancillary & capacity market
  • Logistics & supply chain

Case study "renewable commercial mandate"

Client Situation
  • Client developing target renewables portfolio in core markets - pipeline of renewable projects established
  • Renewable engineering project development, renewables commersialisation and operations to be in line with risk policies - fundamentally different understanding between functions how this shall be achieved, and what requirements and accountability are to lead to a concrete target operating model
Our Contribution
  • Commercial mandate for renewable function for projects development, asset commercialization and operation of renewables contracts
  • Definition of commercial models in line with risk appetite and map of required end-to-end portfolio management & trading capabilities per commercial model and review of existing trading capabilities in core markets
Business transformation & digitalization

European utilities are accelerating their transformation to meet rising customer expectations, regulatory demands, and sustainability goals. Change is driven by the top management.  Transformation is no longer a one-off activity but an ongoing journey demanding continuous innovation, technology adaptation and organizational agility but keeping operational efficiency.

our understanding of

market complexity

  • Market modelling & price forecasting
  • Asset optimization
  • Generation & consumption forecasting
  • Fundamental modelling

our understanding of

enterprise architecture

  • Value stream analysis and end-to-end enterprise design
  • Business & IT capabilities
  • Data storage & data flows
  • Functional & technical design
  • Roles, responsibilities & RACIs

our understanding of

solution delivery

  • Comprehensive solution delivery management
  • PM, BA, SME's, Test mgmt., architect
  • Agile practitioners - scrum, Kanban & XP
  • Business analysis & enterprise, process, application, data design

our understanding of

energy trading organizations

  • Cross-functional transformation of steering, core and support functions
  • Data-driven organizations
  • RACIs for front, middle & back offices

our understanding of

efficient operations

  • Operational support models and SOPs
  • Lean Six-Sigma and operational excellence
  • Operational readiness
  • Managed & self services

our understanding of the

trading IT

  • IT strategy and infrastructure decision making
  • Vendor or tool selection
  • ETRM and ERP / DWH technologies
  • Cloud platforms including infrastructure & applications

Case study "asset optimization platform"

Client Situation
  • Conventional and hydro assets provide reliable value stream
  • Asset optimization with legacy applications that cannot be extended, even difficult to maintain in operational state
Our Contribution
  • Development of a modular, flexible and cloud-based solution for power asset modelling and optimization fully integrated in legacy landscape and processes as well as strategic target landscape
  • Delivery of midterm and long-term asset optimization: including generation asset characterization & parametrization and mid-term optimization for analytic use cases​ & long-term optimization with very advanced scenario capability
Market insight & strategy

In today’s volatile energy market, European utilities need to stay attentive, vigilant and agile. Successful utilities are investing in data-driven insights and flexible strategies to anticipate change and respond proactively. In this dynamic environment, those who can adapt quickly with a fast time-to-market of their models and tools are best positioned.

our insight into the

energy business & asset valuation

  • Investment strategy hydro pump storage
  • Valuation of energy sales business
  • Financial due diligence
  • PPA investment decision process

our insight into the

energy market & decision making

  • Asset & product portfolio strategies
  • Energy supply strategies
  • Trader tools
  • Market research

our understanding of

competitive advantage via bespoke solutions

  • Front office tools
  • Reporting & decision making tools
  • Risk engine & tools
  • Market transparency & analysis
  • (Market and deal) Scenarios & tools

Case study "Investment hydro pump storage"

Client Situation
  • Hydro pump storage project for increased capacity ongoing with client holding %-share
  • Project cost exceeding initial estimate and decision for increase of investment or des-investment required
Our Contribution
  • Establishment of core scenarios for market and valuation of hydro pump storage asset given three of those scenarios, i.e. considering energy and ancillary power markets
  • (Des-) Investment strategy based given options valuation and estimated project cost, and thresholds for exit, reduce or hold investment share
Data & artificial intelligence

The power of data and AI is reshaping the energy industry, driving efficiency and unlocking new potential. Realtime and good data quality are key and require a robust data governance. Introducing and using AI carefully and responsibly will unlock its potential and lead to success while avoiding associated risk around privacy, generating false or sharing proprietary strategic insight.

our understanding of

data-driven organizations

  • Data roles & governance
  • Data processing: integration, lineage, reconciliation, customization, transformation & mapping
  • Data architecture, quality, management & orchestration

our understanding of

AI & AI capabilities

  • AI maturity assessment
  • AI strategy
  • Value of AI - technical and business use-cases
  • AI tools & out-of-the-box functionality

Case study "data platform"

Client Situation
  • On-premise system landscape with applications that are not scalable
  • Data processing based on manual triggers, and including many manual work-arounds in legacy processes
  • Decision to build strategic cloud-based data integration and analytics platform
Our Contribution
  • Initial solution design & architecture
  • Backlog at epic, feature and user story level; prioritization criteria & process
  • Various data capabilities & components developed, i.e. for data integration, transformation and orchestration
  • Operational capabilities established & scaled through continuous  development & improvement.

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