Welcome to Utility Consultants

A complex world of changing climates, migrating peoples and depleting resources will require ever increasing amounts of clean, reliable and cheap electricity supported by efficient and fairly-priced network connectivity. That will require legacy networks to be re-thought right from the basics. 

 

Utility Consultants Ltd, specialist management consultants to the electricity distribution & transmission sector can help you with your clean energy transition. Typical client engagements include...

 

  • Aligning an electric company’s governance framework to the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) recommendations.

 

  • Compiling a TCFD reporting framework for an electric distribution company.

 

  • Translating climate policy into infrastructure asset management practices.

 

  • Linking an electric distribution company’s asset management practices to climate predictions.

 

  • Identifying leading global practices for electric company climate resilience, including developing specific asset strategies.

 

 

  • Assisting 2 electric companies to identify the revenue growth opportunities as decarbonisation creates new markets for energy services.

 

  • Identifying emerging best practices for community-scale and grid-scale batteries for an Australian lines company.

 

  • Advised an Australian electric company on how the Regulator has treated network transformation expenditure.

 

  • Identifying best practices in EV charging for an Australian lines company, including likely regulatory treatment of chargers.

  • Compiled an EV charging strategy including estimates of the number of EV’s, likely charging habits and possible tariff options.

 

  • Compiling a solar PV market intelligence report for an EDB.

 

  • Compiled a regulatory submission on proposed regulatory settings for DER’s on behalf of an EDB.

 

  • Identifying the key features of distributor-led transition from a DNO to a DSO or DMO.

 

  • Assess solar PV investment opportunities on behalf of a private investor.

 

  • Identified emerging practices in DER integration.

 

  • Compiled a regulatory submission on EV charging on behalf of an EDB.

 

  • Advised a US electric company on the role that demand aggregators are playing in the Australian NEM, and how that demand aggregation might defer distribution feeder investment.

 

  • Advised a US electric company on Australian best practices in EV charging, including what value streams are available.

 

  • Advised a US electric company on which Australian electric companies have the best behind-the-meter practices.

 

  • Advised a US electric company on the likely costs of DER integration based on recent Australian regulatory proposals.

 

 

  • Advised a US electric company on how DERMS in NZ and Australia are altering CapEx and OpEx requirements.

 

These are just a few examples of hundreds of client engagements and projects that Utility Consultants director Phil Caffyn has been involved with over the last 37 years. Please take a few moments to browse around and see how Utility Consultants can help your wires business, and then email or call to discuss your precise needs.