We provide a range of services including consulting, economic analysis, strategic evaluations, analysis of operations, management decision making studies, data and databases to corporations, industry groups, law firms, government and regulatory agencies.
We specialize in power industry economics and analysis as well as quantitative and statistical analysis, modeling, and forecasting for industry in general.
Frontier Analysis
The profile of a power plant is as unique as a person’s fingerprint. Plants vary by age, design, equipment, operating strategy, level of maintenance, and quality of plant operating management. Only by analyzing all these factors over a period of years or even decades can the current economic value of a given plant be accurately determined.
In a groundbreaking move, we brought frontier cohorts to the power industry.
- Evaluate historical performance of generating units under study v. frontier cohorts
- Simulate various interrelationships between 2 or more variables: reliability v. spending; reliability v. unit aging, reliability v. spending v. duty cycle
- Develop Unit Aging Profiles – with respect to spending and/or reliability over unit life
- Measure Impact of Changing Duty Cycle on the Aging Profile of a unit
- Project Spending levels required to meet future reliability targets
- Forecast Future Reliability levels based on budgeted spending
- Determine the Effect of Holding Budgets at a Fixed Level on unit reliability
- Optimize and Sustain Unit Profitability - marginal cost of reliability v. marginal revenue of reliability
Additional Services
- Development of analytical tools, methods, and models to benchmark, predict, simulate and forecast costs and reliability at plants and units
- Evaluation of capacity expansion alternatives and impacts on overall system reliability of electric utilities
- Forecasting demand for energy by type and by sector
- load forecasting ‑‑ econometric and/or end‑use models by sector
- Electricity supply requirements, constraints and considerations
- Supply‑and demand‑side options ‑‑ cost‑benefit analyses, least cost options
- Demand‑side management ‑- cost effectiveness of technologies, market penetration, quantification of program success
- Market direction, structure and sources of power
- Implication of environmental issues and legislation
- Market entry strategies ‑‑ definition, sector, optimal position
- Clean coal & advanced nuclear technologies ‑‑ competitiveness, cost/benefit analyses
- Litigation support and expert testimony