What We Do

Nine defined service lines across the power and energy value chain — each a productized capability, each backed by delivered work.

Service Directory

Nine capabilities, three areas of focus.

Area 01 — Transactions, Policy & Markets
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Privatization & Transaction Advisory

Flagship

Sell- and buy-side advisory for utility privatization and energy M&A — the bankable capability as governments worldwide privatize distribution companies.

What we deliver

  • Sell-side financial models for distribution charge, sale proceeds and asset-investment needs
  • Buy-side technical & commercial due diligence for bidders and PE / strategic acquirers
  • Asset valuation, efficiency-gain assessment and bid qualification
  • Transaction structuring, including retainer-plus-success-fee mandates

Selected proof: IFC privatization model for a power distribution company (FESCO); market & M&A due diligence on Fauji Kabirwala IPP (PA Consulting) and an LPG distributor (JS Private Equity); HUBCO bid qualification for SSGC.


02

Energy Policy, Market Design & Reform

National energy and power-sector policy and structural reform — and the design of the competitive markets it operates through, from single-buyer to competition.

What we deliver

  • National energy and power-sector policy, strategy and structural reform
  • Competitive wholesale-market design and transition from single-buyer arrangements
  • Market, grid, distribution and commercial codes; market-operator establishment
  • Sector restructuring / unbundling and integrated, least-cost generation planning
  • Standard operating procedures, market-data institutionalization and capacity building

Selected proof: Member of the international team that designed Pakistan's CTBCM for ADB/CPPA-G with MRC; the National Power Plan for WAPDA and the 1992 restructuring that unbundled it into 11 companies; establishment of the CPPA (Mercados EMI); MIRAD SOPs across all 10 DISCOs under USAID PSIA.


03

Tariff & Regulatory Advisory

Electricity and gas tariffs across the value chain, cost-of-service modelling, and representation before regulators.

What we deliver

  • Generation, transmission, distribution and consumer tariffs; IPP power-purchase prices
  • Cost-of-service models, wheeling and distribution-margin design
  • Tariff petitions, review motions and regulatory-hearing interventions
  • Licensing applications and regulatory-framework drafting

Selected proof: Dozens of NEPRA / OGRA petitions and interventions (APTMA, ICI, OICCI, SPP associations); IPP tariff models; the 500 kV Matiari–Moro–Rahimyar Khan PPP transmission tariff.

Area 02 — Projects, Finance & Trade
04

Feasibility, Economic & Financial Analysis

Project feasibility and economic / financial analysis to development-bank board-approval standard.

What we deliver

  • Feasibility studies, PC-I documents and DCF / FIRR / EIRR / NPV analysis
  • Least-cost generation expansion planning and production-cost simulation
  • Financial-management assessment of executing agencies for IFI financing
  • Sections of ADB / World Bank Reports & Recommendations of the President

Selected proof: NTDC transmission tranches; AMI / smart-metering for LESCO & IESCO; distribution modernization for LESCO, MEPCO & SEPCO; hydropower (Lower Spat Gah, K-Electric T&G plan).


05

Lender's Technical Advisor / Owner's Engineer

Independent technical and commercial review for financiers and project owners — a recurring, high-value role we have delivered.

What we deliver

  • Independent technical & commercial due diligence of energy projects being financed
  • Owner's-engineer bid evaluation, model review and risk assessment
  • Power-purchase pricing and project-finance support to board approval
  • Construction- and operation-phase monitoring for lenders

Selected proof: Independent review and technical evaluation of owner's-engineer bids for Mari Petroleum's CCGT IPP; economic / financial analysis taking the US$2.7bn Jamshoro coal project to ADB board approval.


06

Cross-Border Power Trade & Interconnection

Regional interconnection and power-trade structuring — a niche specialism as regions build interconnectors and power pools.

What we deliver

  • Interconnection prefeasibility and optimal trade-volume assessment
  • Transmission-tariff, transit-fee and import-price structuring
  • Trading-model design and review of commercial agreements and term sheets
  • Multi-country negotiation support and working-group participation

Selected proof: Commercial advisor and Pakistan Working Group member on the ~US$1bn CASA-1000 regional electricity market; prefeasibility for the India–Pakistan 500 MW interconnection (World Bank / Tetra Tech).

Area 03 — Specialist Domains
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Oil, Gas & LNG Advisory

Deep oil & gas credentials alongside power — pricing, value chains, LNG integration and infrastructure economics.

What we deliver

  • Gas pricing, value-chain and economic-value analysis across sectors
  • LNG import / regasification integration and gas-transmission hydraulic analysis
  • Supply-option, infrastructure and pipeline economics studies
  • Petroleum concession and production-sharing financial modelling

Selected proof: SSGCL / SNGPL LNG-integration hydraulic study; economic value of natural gas (AEAI / USAID); studies for OMV, BP, Petronas, Premier-Kufpec, OGRA & OGDCL; Iran–Pakistan and IPI pipeline economics.


08

Energy Arbitration & Expert Witness

Proven at The Hague

Independent economic and technical expertise for international energy disputes — proven, not theoretical.

What we deliver

  • Economic-impact quantification through detailed dispatch and tariff analysis
  • Expert reports and testimony in international arbitration
  • IPP / PPA contract, regulatory and concession-dispute opinions
  • Technical due-diligence support to counsel

Selected proof: As expert on the Indus Waters / Kishenganga dispute, the principal quantified the economic and tariff impact and testified at the hearings at the International Court of Arbitration, The Hague (2012, during his Hagler Bailly tenure).


09

Environment, Clean Energy & Climate

Environmental assessment and climate-finance readiness, leveraging long-standing CDM and renewable-energy credentials.

What we deliver

  • Environmental and emissions assessments from power and industrial facilities
  • EIA / ESIA of energy infrastructure projects
  • CDM project development — baselines, PDDs, MRV and validation
  • Clean- and renewable-energy assessment and planning

Selected proof: ADB Carbon Market Initiative CDM pipeline and Renewable Energy Development project; Patrind Hydropower CDM advisory (ERM Korea); SEED energy-efficiency / CFL program design.

Productized Add-Ons

Fast, repeatable engagements.

Training & Capacity-Building Workshops

One-to-three-day workshops on power-market reform, regulation and tariff-setting for utilities, regulators and state firms — delivered for institutions including Saudi Aramco (with Tetra Tech).

Energy-Systems Modelling

Bespoke models for demand forecasting, plant dispatch, IPP power-purchase pricing, cost-of-service, circular-debt and project economic / financial evaluation.

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