Project Development & Transaction Support
Support for parties engaged in investment decisions, litigation, arbitration, and regulatory proceedings
Project investment risks are prevalent in the energy industry because of its dynamic landscape, which is a result of uncertainties in energy policy, regulatory frameworks, fuel supply, and infrastructure challenges. For an investment to be successful, risks must be assessed, allocated, and mitigated from the varying perspectives of the project developers/sponsors, lenders, owners, and insurers. Our experts bring together a thorough understanding of the challenges in federal and state energy policies and regulations, the planning and operational protocols of regional transmission systems, and the latest technical and financial analysis techniques and models.
Broad testifying experience, geographic reach, and industry range
Our experts have testified before FERC and state and provincial regulatory agencies and have provided technical and policy assistance to regulators and transmission planning agencies. Our geographic reach spans the country—from California to Mississippi to Maine—as well as Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Korea. Our sector experience is also broad, spanning renewables, transmission lines, nuclear power plants, and more.
Analyses that withstand regulatory scrutiny
We offer expertise that covers the full spectrum of uncertainties, including policy and regulation, fuels pricing and transportation, and generation and transmission planning and operations. Our forecasts of revenues and costs employ widely used hourly, transmission-constrained, chronological-dispatch production costing models; custom models to forecast the production of solar thermal and photovoltaic generating plants; and empirically obtained hourly wind generation data. The transmission power flow and voltage stability modeling techniques our analysts use have withstood the highest degree of regulatory scrutiny.
