Energy & Decarbonisation

What we do

We bring a meticulous understanding of energy markets and environmental economics to bear on a wide range of complex issues, applying to:

• Regulatory analysis
• Market design
• Economic modelling and forecasting
• Valuing natural resources and externalities
• Cost-benefit analysis
• Revenue and price setting
• Future scenarios
• Security and reliability
• Carbon abatement costing and scenario analysis
• Carbon planning and quantifications
• Measuring the impact of environmental and planning policies
• Freshwater and three waters policy
• Trading and risk management.

Examples of our work in energy and decarbonisation

• Cost-benefit analysis of building for climate change amendments to the Building Act 2004
• Market power mitigation in the Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM)
• Business case for investment in Low Voltage Network Monitoring
• Essential freshwater fegulations – Industry Impact Analysis
• Benefits and costs of the Wilding Pine Management Programme Phase 2 executive summary
• Review of governance of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) technical standards
• Briefing to incoming government on climate action priorities
• Distributed energy resources: Understanding the potential
• What is really driving innovation in our plant-based sectors?
• Achieving policy goals for the electricity industry
• National Energy Security Assessment (NESA)
• Benefits of an electricity futures market in Singapore – May 2016
• Understanding the value of the electricity and Gas Complaints Commissioner – October 2015
• Errors in Australian Energy Regulator’s draft decision on Ergon Energy’s 2016 Tariff Structure Statement
• A lack of joined-up thinking on energy, water and climate change objectives
• A clearer high standard of trading conduct rule
• Transitioning to zero net emissions by 2050: Moving to a very low-emissions electricity system in New Zealand
• A review of the fiscal cost estimate of moving to averaging accounting for existing forests within the Emissions Trading Scheme
• Review of competition in the retail electricity and natural gas markets in New South Wales
• Scoping study for a consumer energy data access system
• Corporate governance in the transition to a low-carbon economy
• Electricity sector review – 2018
• Independent review of operating environment factors used to adjust efficient operating expenditure for economic benchmarking
• Transitioning to zero net emissions by 2050: moving to a very low-emissions electricity system in New Zealand
• An exploration of locational marginal pricing at the distribution level in the New Zealand context
• Provision of information to the NZ ETS
• Sapere critique of Queensland Competition Authority’s draft (and Final) Determination for retail electricity prices for 2016-17.