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AI-driven growth, accelerating electrification, and the challenge of balancing renewables with gas and storage are reshaping the grid. Today’s decisions carry high stakes. S&P Global’s Power & Renewables Consulting helps you cut through complexity with tailored strategies, data-backed forecasts, and decarbonization roadmaps. Plan with confidence, ensure reliability, and drive sustainable growth. Get in touch and let us help you navigate the present and future of power.
Our experts are at the forefront of understanding the evolving dynamics in the power sector, in both regulated and restructured markets. We are helping clients to anticipate demand growth, make asset and portfolio investment decisions, assess the value of expanded transmission, evaluate new markets to enter, compare locational/siting choices, reduce carbon footprints, and understand the evolving market designs in which their investments will operate.
Gen AI is changing the energy game, but it can be difficult to keep up. Our consulting services help you understand your own demand drivers, market demand drivers and flexibilities, generation solutions and risks, and how to manage your power procurement needs. We can also guide you in understanding AI as a solution to power demand forecasting and grid management.
With datacenter development, more electric vehicles, and new heating solutions, electricity demand is skyrocketing, which can put strain on existing infrastructure. We help you prepare for this growth, spot opportunities, and keep the grid reliable, so your operations run smoothly.
To be efficient and manage costs, you need to find the right balance between renewables, gas-fired generation, and energy storage. We guide you through this transition, helping you create an energy strategy that meets demand, reliability, and flexibility needs, complies with regulations, and supports your business goals.
With power energy demand climbing and markets growing more complex, having a strategy that fits your specific business needs is key. We work with you to build tailored plans that address shifting regulations, evolving generation mixes, investment pressures, and more—equipping you to make confident decisions and achieve sustainable growth
Knowing how much energy you’ll need and peak load requirements is crucial for managing supply. Our advanced analytics platform helps you accurately predict energy demand, so you can align your supply without overcommitting resources, and communicate your planning to key stakeholders and regulators.
Figuring out your power procurement strategy while aiming for cleaner energy can be overwhelming. We’re here to help you develop effective strategies that align with your sustainability goals, making the transition to a greener future more achievable and less costly.
Explore our client case studies to see how S&P Global Power & Renewables Consulting delivers tailored strategies, actionable insights, and roadmaps that drive success.
With over 300 consultants across diverse sectors around the world, we offer deep global and regional expertise.
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Our expert consultants leverage their extensive experience to help you navigate the complexities of the power market, transforming data into actionable insights.
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Challenge
A T&D Utility in Texas sought support to understand potential load growth in their service territories, enabling them to effectively prepare, plan, and anticipate necessary infrastructure development and upgrades over the next 20 years.
The client needed to assess the future power requirements driven by the rapid and ongoing growth in the Gulf Coast and North-Central service areas in Texas.
Solution
We established and validated baseline demand for all service areas by leveraging various data sources and created a census tract-level heat map to visually represent this baseline demand. Additionally, we performed regional economic modeling to understand the underlying drivers of residential, commercial, and industrial growth projected through 2045.
Our analysis focused on key demand segments, including datacenters, chemicals and refining, hydrogen, and electric vehicles (EVs). To enhance our forecasting, we developed hot summer and cold winter scenarios based on weather-adjusted scaling factors. The S&P Global team then compiled and delivered a comprehensive technical report summarizing the methodology, key findings, results, and implications of the forecast.
Results
S&P Global's forecast enabled the client to gain a clearer understanding of their future transmission and distribution (T&D) planning needs, facilitating more effective communication of these requirements to ERCOT, the Public Utility Commission of Texas, and other stakeholders.
Challenge
A major European energy company wanted to get a clear understanding of the countries suitable to invest, develop, and operate renewables in Europe. The client required advisory services to aid in developing a foreign expansion strategy to achieve its 2030 renewable energy targets.
Solution
S&P Global Power Consulting conducted a comprehensive review of the power markets and the attractiveness of renewable energy sources (RES) across more than 30 European countries. This analysis was structured within an industry-proven framework. We assessed the strategies of the client's foreign subsidiaries and proposed actionable scenarios tailored to each subsidiary, considering key driving factors such as decarbonization objectives and country-specific business capabilities. The project team also evaluated potential targets for partnership or acquisition in alignment with the recommended strategy.
Results
The client selected five countries to focus on to meet its 2030 strategic objectives. The client was also able to evaluate the role of its foreign subsidiaries in executing the strategy while weighing further investments in its asset portfolio internationally.
Challenge
The power market in Guangdong Province, China, is experiencing rapid market reforms, and the South regional power spot market has initiated trial operations, including new settlement processes. In this evolving landscape, a major international oil company, which operates across multiple energy sectors, engaged S&P Global Power Consulting to provide insights into the power market in Guangdong. Our client’s interest spans their roles as an electricity consumer, an LNG provider, and also as a potential investor.
Solution
We conducted a comprehensive analysis of Guangdong's power market design, which included a thorough review of current market rules and an assessment of the milestones and directions of national, regional, and provincial market reforms. Our retrospective analysis of the five-year plan revealed the influence of policies on market development and capacity expansion. To address our client’s needs, we developed a capacity expansion and hourly dispatch model for the South Region, covering the period from 2023 to 2050. This model was based on aligned inputs, including demand projections, fuel and carbon pricing, policy outlooks, and technical conditions of power equipment.
Additionally, we modeled two scenarios to reflect the impact on power systems of higher demand growth versus GDP-driven economic transitions and the accelerated development of renewables to meet Net Zero carbon targets. Our final deliverables included detailed output data tables illustrating trends in wholesale pricing and demand for gas power, along with a comprehensive analysis and calculation of retail pricing.
Results
Our work enabled our client's team to gain a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of Guangdong's power market. The market report and support provided through continuous communication and discussion was crucial in refining their power procurement strategy and LNG sales plan.
Challenge
An Infrastructure Investor requested a commercial and technical review to identify opportunities for developing new private interconnectors in the Northern part of the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP). S&P Global Power Consulting was asked to provide an overview of the electricity market in each of the relevant countries, together with an assessment of the typical commercial framework within SAPP.
Solution
S&P Global Power Consulting analyzed demand, capacity, and generation for selected Sub-Saharan Africa countries, providing visibility into import/export opportunities within SAPP under various scenarios. Our team evaluated commercial SAPP trading opportunities, considering power availability, wheeling costs, and likely import/export routes, identifying potential transmission infrastructure needs. We also assessed risks associated with new interconnector development, considering SAPP's evolving trade landscape, liquidity constraints, network planning expectations, and regulatory transparency challenges.
Results
S&P Global Power Consulting identified economically viable routes for new interconnectors and risks associated with each, ultimately informing our client’s investment strategy and impending decisions.
