ENERGY SECTOR
ELECTRICITY
The key services that SAHA provides to the Electricity industry are:
- Market Reform;
- Strategic Analysis;
- Corporate Finance Advisory; and
- Service Delivery Solutions.
These are outlined in further detail below.
Market Reform
- Electricity market design, including:
- Wholesale tading
- Vesting contract design
- Transmission provider costs
- Service Standards
- Efficient electricity tariff structures
- Ringfencing and privatisation options
- Common access issues
- Regulatory investment tests
- Revenue and price cap reviews
- Regulatory strategy
Strategic Analysis
- Value chain analysis of electricity sector
- Trading portfolio optimisation
- Electricity and renewable energy price path projections
- Demand forecasting
- Risk management and quantification
- Security of supply
- Regulation scenarios
- Full retail competition
Corporate Finance Advisory
- Valuation methodologies, including:
- Optimised deprival valuations
- Depreciated optimised replacement cost
- Historical cost
- DCF analysis
- CAPM and WACC theory and analysis
- Debt and financing options
- Financial accounting standards
Service Delivery
- Owner / manager / operator options
- Split between system operator and transmission asset owner
- Outsourcing of customer services
GAS
The key services that SAHA provides to the Gas industry are:
- Market Reform;
- Strategic Analysis;
- Corporate Finance Advisory; and
- Service Delivery Solutions.
These are outlined in further detail below.
Market Reform
- Gas market rules
- Privatisation
- Regulated gas tariff design
- Price determination reviews
- Transmission pipeline access arrangements
- Customer service standards for contestable and non-
contestable segments - Regulatory strategy
Strategic Analysis
- Contract review
- Security of supply
- Regulatory scenarios
- Demand and supply forecasting
- Gas pipeline cost evaluation
- Gas netback scenarios
- Full retail competition
- Demand forecasting
- Risk allowances
Corporate Finance Advisory
- Optimised Deprival Valuation
- DCF analysis
- CAPM and WACC theory and analysis
Service Delivery
- Scheduling and nomination procedures
- Operator agreements
- Service unbundling
- Reconciliation