Power & Utilities

Is your company a utility of the future?

The changes affecting power and utilities companies have provoked some apocalyptic headlines. While no-one would argue that the sector is dealing with the most significant transformation in its history, we’re much more optimistic. If businesses make the right moves to address the challenges they face and embrace the opportunities, they can be a thriving ‘utility of the future’.

But this means becoming so much more than a reliable energy supply. To prosper, power and utility companies will have to satisfy a diverse range of customer, business and community demands and do so in a rapidly changing regulatory and technological environment. PwC believe the utility of the future is unlikely to control the full value chain but rather will enable valued energy solutions for their targeted customers - it will become an ‘energy enabler’.

How we can work with you

We work with power and utilities clients to help them not just survive the current period of disruption, but reconfigure themselves for sustained success. Our experienced team of experts help companies to transform their operations, grow their revenues and reduce costs. We work alongside them to develop new strategies, build new operating models, and create new ways of managing to deliver superior customer and investor value.

07/06/21

Green hydrogen economy - predicted development of tomorrow

Cost reductions in the production of renewable electricity and hydrogen and in transport technologies will result in an increase in the number of countries where green hydrogen can be produced competitively and play a critical role in decarbonisation economies worldwide.

03/11/16

Renewable Energy

Stay informed of the latest developments in renewable energy with PwC's expert insights.

EU&M Matters

EU&M Matters is PwC's regular publication for the Energy, Utilities and Mining sectors. Each edition features our latest thought leadership and industry insights, exploring current and future trends from Australia and across our global network.

Creating value for your business

These are the 8 key ways in which we can support growth and success across your entire organisation:

Assurance Providing internal audit, external financial statement audit and risk assurance services, including energy focussed services such as risk and controls optimisation. Consulting Helping organisations to work smarter and grow faster by working with clients to build more effective organisations, innovate their business model, reduce costs and manage risk & regulation through energy industry specific consulting expertise and services. Deals Working with domestic, outbound and inbound businesses to raise capital and complete acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic alliances. We bring deep industry experience and international networks to help you succeed across the deal lifecycle.

People People & Organisation Helping clients to realise and discover the potential of their people by providing a single integrated people consulting and solutions service. Taxation Combining the skills of financial and tax specialists with those of economists, lawyers and other in-house specialists, we help solve tax problems from the ideas stage through to execution. Legal Bringing specialist legal advice and transaction support across the power and utilities sector, including corporate and M&A projects, and project finance. Infrastructure Integrated Infrastructure delivers the end-to-end expertise to support your energy or utilities organisations' growth today, and tomorrow. We combine industry experience and insight to drive confidence in infrastructure outcomes.

Publications

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10/07/24

Connecting the dots: how enhancing investment certainty in the R1 process will help to facilitate timely connections

The recent release of the 2024 Integrated System Plan from the AEMO confirmed what many industry participants already know – the rate at which variable renewable generation is being connected to the NEM is currently too slow.

03/05/18

Is merchant the new black?

Power Purchase Agreements or merchant – what is right for your renewable energy project? We look at some of the often unconsidered financial and commercial risk and return tradeoffs that exist between PPA and merchant projects.

07/03/18

Bringing North Sea energy ashore efficiently

In collaboration with the World Energy Council (WEC), we look at the rapidly increasing offshore wind capacity on the North Sea. When coupled with demand on shore, our research shows that several solutions and technologies need to be developed in order to bring the energy to the end consumer in the most efficient...

06/12/17

Market design in a world of energy transformation

PwC’s report shares insights from industry leaders on a range of industry and market topics, and explores what’s next after the Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme.