What We Do

E2 Consulting delivers nine defined energy advisory service lines across the power and energy value chain — from policy, market design and pricing to system planning, engineering, modeling and arbitration. Each is a productized capability backed by delivered work.

Service Directory

Nine capabilities, three areas of focus.

Area 01 — Policy, Markets & Transactions
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Policy, Market Design & Transaction Advisory

Flagship

Research, analysis and advice to governments, donor agencies and private clients on power and energy policy, market reform and restructuring — and the transactions that reshape ownership of energy assets.

What we deliver

  • Energy and power-sector policy, regulatory analysis and structural-reform strategy
  • Market reform, restructuring, competition and competitive wholesale-market design
  • Transaction advisory for privatization and mergers / acquisitions of energy assets
  • Institutional development, capacity building and utility licensing
  • Tariff petitions and interventions at regulatory hearings; cost-of-service positioning

Selected proof: Member of the international team that designed Pakistan's competitive wholesale market — the CTBCM (ADB / CPPA-G, MRC); the IFC sell-side privatization model for the FESCO distribution utility; establishment of the CPPA and the 1992 restructuring that unbundled WAPDA; MIRAD SOPs across all 10 DISCOs (USAID PSIA).


02

Energy Pricing, Tariffs & Economic Analysis

Utility tariffs across the value chain and the economic and financial analysis behind every energy decision — pricing, viability and valuation to development-bank standard.

What we deliver

  • Generation, transmission, distribution and consumer tariffs; IPP power-purchase pricing
  • Integrated operational and financial modeling; DCF / FIRR / EIRR / NPV viability analysis
  • Production-cost simulation and cost-of-service analysis for power, oil and gas
  • Commodity pricing, value-chain analysis and the economic value of gas and petroleum
  • Economic and financial evaluation of projects and utility investment plans

Selected proof: Power-purchase price for the 2×660 MW Jamshoro coal units (CPPA); ex-post economic & financial evaluation of the 1,450 MW Ghazi Barotha hydropower (World Bank); economic value of natural gas across sectors (AEAI / USAID); NEPRA / OGRA cost-of-service petitions for APTMA, ICI and OICCI.

Area 02 — Planning, Engineering & Delivery
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Corporate, Commercial & Contract Management

Commercial and contractual advisory across the life of an energy asset — from purchase contracts and due diligence to business planning and negotiation support.

What we deliver

  • IPP / energy purchase-contract analysis, risk coverage and dispute resolution
  • Technical and commercial due diligence of generation, transmission and distribution projects
  • Corporate business planning and energy-infrastructure asset management
  • Negotiation support to governments and utilities on cross-border energy trade
  • Gas and fuel supply-option analysis; energy-efficiency programme design and management

Selected proof: Technical & commercial due diligence for the acquisition of a Pakistan LPG distributor; strategic review of a seven-asset E&P business plan; comparative ranking of gas-import options and negotiation support for the Government of Pakistan.


04

Power & Energy System Planning

Power- and gas-system planning end to end — demand forecasting, least-cost expansion, dispatch and network analysis across electricity, oil and gas.

What we deliver

  • Power-system engineering, master planning and least-cost generation expansion planning
  • Electricity, gas and petroleum demand forecasting and energy balances
  • Production-cost and plant-dispatch simulation; reserve-margin and marginal-cost studies
  • Natural-gas transmission hydraulic analysis and supply-demand commercialization studies
  • Integrated resource planning, DSM, smart-grid planning and energy transformation

Selected proof: Least-Cost Generation Expansion Plan for the World Bank; Kohistan 500 / 765 kV HVAC vs HVDC power-evacuation options for NTDC (~12,861 MW); LNG-integration hydraulic study for SSGCL & SNGPL; gas commercialization studies (Zamzama, Badin, Mubarak).


05

Technical & Engineering Analysis

The engineering backbone — feasibility, design, PC-I preparation, and the independent technical review lenders and owners rely on.

What we deliver

  • PC-I preparation and feasibility of power, renewable, clean-energy and infrastructure projects
  • Front-End Engineering Design (FEED), design and engineering of power projects
  • Bid evaluation, performance and technical audit of utilities and plants
  • Reliability assessment of power systems and O&M analysis
  • Lender's technical advisor / owner's engineer review and due diligence

Selected proof: Technical due-diligence and feasibility for LESCO / MEPCO / SEPCO distribution modernization (ADB TA-9756); owner's-engineer bid review for Mari Petroleum's CCGT IPP; energy & performance audits of the Jamshoro, Guddu and Muzaffargarh GENCO plants; FEED for a Qatar MARPOL facility.


06

Computer Modeling & Analytical Tools

A library of proprietary Excel-based models — the analytical engines behind our tariff, dispatch, forecasting and investment work.

What we deliver

  • Power and energy demand-forecast and energy-balance models
  • Power-dispatch and production-cost simulation models
  • IPP tariff, cost-of-service and consumer-pricing models for electricity and gas
  • Business-plan and project economic / financial evaluation models
  • Energy-efficiency economics and environmental-impact assessment models

Selected proof: PowerSim integrated power-sector financial model (AEAI / USAID); disaggregated financial model for the WAPDA Power Wing; offshore production-sharing model for ENI Pakistan; financial-viability models of WAPDA and KESC.

Area 03 — Specialist Domains
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Environment, Clean Energy & Climate

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

What we deliver

  • Environmental and emissions assessment from power and industrial facilities
  • EIA / ESIA of energy infrastructure projects
  • Clean- and renewable-energy assessment, policy formulation and planning
  • CDM and Article-6 project development — baselines, PDDs, MRV and validation

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


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Cross-Border Power Trade & Interconnection

A niche specialism as regions build interconnectors and power pools — trade structuring, pricing and multi-country negotiation.

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 Central Asia–South Asia electricity market; prefeasibility for the India–Pakistan 500 MW interconnection (World Bank / Tetra Tech).


09

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).

Common Questions

Questions clients ask before engaging us

What does E2 Consulting do?

E2 Consulting is an independent energy and power-sector advisory firm based in Islamabad, Pakistan. It advises governments, development banks, lenders and investors across nine service lines — policy, market design and transaction advisory; energy pricing, tariffs and economic analysis; corporate, commercial and contract management; power and energy system planning; technical and engineering analysis; computer modeling and analytical tools; environment, clean energy and climate; cross-border power trade; and energy arbitration.

What is the CTBCM?

The CTBCM — Competitive Trading Bilateral Contract Market — is Pakistan's competitive wholesale electricity market. E2 Consulting's principal, Manzar Naeem Qureshi, was part of the international team that designed it — experience directly transferable to any country unbundling its power sector.

What does a power-sector privatization advisor do?

A privatization advisor prepares a utility for sale and supports the transaction on either side: building the financial model that determines sale proceeds and the distribution charge, valuing the asset base, and running technical and commercial due diligence. E2's principal built the IFC sell-side model for the FESCO distribution utility.

What does a Lender's Technical Advisor do?

A Lender's Technical Advisor gives financiers an independent technical and commercial review of an energy project — due diligence, bid evaluation and project-finance support through to board approval. E2 delivers LTA and owner's-engineer work within its Technical & Engineering Analysis and Corporate, Commercial & Contract Management lines, to ADB and World Bank standard.

Where does E2 Consulting work?

E2 Consulting is headquartered in Islamabad and serves clients across Pakistan, South and Central Asia and the Gulf, with remote advisory delivered worldwide and invoicing in USD.

How do we start an engagement?

Describe the mandate through the contact page. E2 responds with how it would approach the work and the most relevant references from its 111-engagement record; client-confidential detail is available under NDA.

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