Utilities, Gas & Power Expert

Eric A. Spiegel Ibrahim El-Husseini Thomas Flaherty Nick Pennell Arthur Ramos Per-Ola Karlsson Neil McArthur

In a world of volatile energy prices, uncertain sources of new energy supply, aggressive investor involvement and, intense regulatory scrutiny fundamental changes are occurring within the power and gas industry. With historically high oil and gas prices driving the price of marginal power production, governments are seeking non-carbon based power sources and increasingly looking to alternative or cleaner energy sources, including nuclear, LNG and coal gasification.

Alternative energy sources, such as renewables and bio-fuels, have become a cause celebré, with both environmentalists and industry executives. And with this evolving market backdrop, regulators are insisting on flawless energy delivery and stability in prices, while exercising close control over industry consolidation. As market forces continue to create emerging challenges, the need for distinctive strategy, business model evolution, financial capacity, regulatory innovation and, world class operations capabilities become tablestakes for success.

Booz Allen Hamilton’s Capabilities

Drawing on our deep understanding of industry dynamics, extensive experience along the entire gas and power value chains, and broad functional capabilities, Booz Allen assists many of the world’s leading companies in the gas and power sectors. Our global capabilities are delivered throughout the sector to traditional utilities, merchants and marketers, as well as, to financial sponsors, vendors and suppliers and governments. Working side-by-side with our private and public sector clients, we assist with strategy development and execution; M&A transaction support; performance management, and; technology strategy and implementation.

Strategy Development and Execution — Competitive companies require tailored strategies to tackle the full range of strategic and market challenges. Working with condition-driven methodologies, our teams help clients inform their strategic debate, envision the future, set clear expectations, and develop and implement appropriate strategies, related to:

• Corporate growth
• Capital allocation
• Portfolio optimization
• Operating models
• Organizational architecture
• Workforce planning

M&A Transaction Support — Drawing on our proven industry expertise and our functional experience in the support of all phases of M&A processes, we support our clients during target assessment, synergies quantification, regulatory strategy and, integration program implementation. Major support activities include:

• Acquisition strategies
• Financial analysis and valuation
• Due diligence support
• Clean room operation
• Post-merger integration
• Business carve-out

Performance Management — Markets and regulators are demanding that power and gas companies not simply pursue, but achieve, operational excellence. We support our clients in the sustainable optimization of their entire services and cost base with independent analysis and support to:

• Cost structure review
• Process optimization
• Customer management
• Supply chain optimization
• Asset utilization
• Outsourcing analysis

Technology Strategy and Innovation — Understanding technology trends and deployment is fundamental to defining how to effectively support business operations and optimize capital investment, particularly with respect to the evolution of the Smart Grid. We help clients develop real world understanding of available asset and system technologies and manage implementation of projects to achieve
intended results by addressing:

• Innovation strategy
• Technology assessment
• Deployment economics
• Investment effectiveness
• Architecture design
• Network optimization

Representative Energy Sector Disciplines and Areas of Expertise

Booz Allen has worked with an array of the world’s leading gas and power companies in every category of the value chain: power generation, transmission pipelines and storage, LNG, trading and marketing, distribution, and retail. Among the firm’s clients are: global energy companies; regional / local utilities, financial investors and policy makers.

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