Energy Sector Consulting

Energy efficiency has yet to become a global mainstream investment resource. Though there are some aspects of energy efficiency programs in many countries, IED Consulting and its partners find the opportunities are still enormous for countries, municipalities, industries, banks, energy markets and private sector investors.

Our team has more than 100 years of experience in developing least cost plan and development of specific action plans for design, procurement, and oversight of energy efficiency program strategies.

Energy resource technology options on the customer side are growing and maturing. Self-generation, battery storage, demand shifting, and demand response (interruptible demand) are just examples of how large consumers can manage their energy consumption and work closely with the networks to reduce their electricity expenses.

We examine the electrical demand, the energy extensive equipment, the operational flexibility of a company, the cost of electricity in the market, and the cost of self-producing to develop a robust energy management program that improve the productivity of the company.

Renewables are increasingly being included in the electricity mix due to the massive cost reductions in the past decade. The decreasing cost of electricity from solar PV makes it a viable alternative to fossil fuel plants in most countries to meet the consumption.

At IED Consulting, our team helps you seamlessly transition to renewable energy by charting out a development plan, study & evaluate potential solar sites as well as review proposals.

Growing investor confidence in wind energy coupled with cheaper hardware has resulted in low financial costs and record low contract prices. The rising fears of global warming and the necessity to reduce CO2 emissions has bolstered the role of wind energy in the decarbonisation process.

With our expertise, we help clients with prospective location studies, Wind resource assessment, interconnection studies, design of wind farms as well as finance and risk assessments.

Hydropower is the world’s largest source of renewable energy generation and continues to play an important part in the decarbonising process while enhancing system flexibility.

Our consultants are adept in reconnaissance and feasibility studies consisting of hydrological, ecological, and geological reports, project designing and layout, project schedule development, Project pricing, engineering, construction, and procurement as well as financial and risk mitigation assessments

Many countries rely heavily on thermal power plants (coal, diesel, natural gas and others). While worldwide calls for the elimination of such plants exists, the change to renewable energy will take decades. The introduction of variable renewable energy (VRE) that has no dispatch control requires thermal power plants that can provide flexible dispatch to balance the demand and to increase or decrease electricity output to compensate for the variability of energy produced by VRE plants.

IED Consulting supports our clients as they analyse their future energy portfolio.

Valued at US$ 31 billion in 2019, the global Waste-to-Energy market is projected to grow in the next couple of years. The Waste-to-Energy market is driven by an alarming rate of waste generation and its responsible management to meet the sustainability living standards coupled with growing adoption of renewable energy.

Our team has developed market and legal research to ensure that a framework exists for extraction and consuming of solid waste and the long-term sale of electricity by an off-taker. We have completed several feasibility studies using both conventional and pyrolysis technologies

Transmission and distribution (T&D) losses in a grid have a substantial effect on the energy output. More than fifty percent of countries have T&D losses ranging between 10 to 74%.

At IED Consulting, we realise that lower T&D losses means lower requirement of additional generation plants or early retirement of fossil fuel-based plants. The services we offer include feasibility study for a power line from multiple aspects including location, tower and conductor design, construction and route proposal, demand characteristics and geological assessment using international standards

Energy storage technology has transformed swiftly in the previous years including traditional mechanical systems, batteries, hydrogen, thermal systems and emerging compressed air technology. The demand for energy storage is poised to grow due to lower costs and long duration storage which can out compete coal and gas plants.

Our team stays informed of the maturing storage technologies and helps our clients analyse if and when the inclusion new storage facilities in the energy portfolios provides both economic justification and determine if such a new technology fits within their risk profile.

As costs of renewables and batteries continue to fall, hybrid plants are growing in popularity as power plant developers seek to integrate renewables into their generation infrastructure. This results in a mix of generation methods comprising of both conventional and renewable energy sources, with additional storage systems that assure reliability and energy security.

Our skilled specialists offer hybrid power plant and grid feasibility studies, plant layout, equipment design and procurement and optimise between the different sources to maximise output for a particular site.

A strong regulatory framework drives economic growth, enables clean energy investments, and ensures the growth of a sustainable lifestyle in both the developed and developing economies.

At IED Consulting, we design frameworks that fulfils their objectives, are technically well structured and also complies with the laws of the country. Our team is ready to support governments with legal advisory in developing primary legislation on regulatory authorities and their roles and responsibilities and supporting the energy authorities in developing secondary legislation overing internal process and external rules and procedures.

Software and modelling support an entire ecosystem of new energy developments. Driven by the development of many variable renewable energy (VRE) in emergent decentralized and decarbonized power systems, grid systems are also shifting to a smarter and more integrated one. At a local level, energy management systems are also utilized for energy and power optimization.

At IED, we understand the complexity involved in this new age of digitalization and we are excited to help clients’ advance software capabilities to optimize energy performances and enhance reactive power capabilities.