Success requires complex trade-off decisions that span product design, supply chains, industrial processes, distribution networks, and technology innovation. We provide access to an unparalleled global network of specialists who have deep expertise and hands-on experience in the power industry, lean operations, and energy efficiency.
Remaking Operations for Efficiency. Approaching net zero requires companies to take a comprehensive look at their systems, from product design and supply chain to manufacturing and operations in order to determine where the carbon is and the best method for removing it. We work with companies at all stages of maturity to accelerate their journeys toward sustainability. We work side-by-side with our clients to design and implement operational change and deliver improvements that last. Success requires complex trade-off decisions that span product design, supply chains, industrial processes, distribution networks, circularity, and technology innovation. We help companies identify decarbonization opportunities that work both environmentally and financially.
We help gas and electric utilities develop and execute critical strategic decisions, from prioritizing asset-management investments to applying the latest digital and advanced-analytics thinking to energy delivery. In addition, we advise utility-service providers and technology manufacturers on strategy, serve financial investors through evaluations and due diligence, and support public-sector institutions and their partners with policy design.
Developing safe, reliable, and affordable frontline operations. We use proprietary tools and lean methods to help clients reduce operating expenditures while improving safety, reliability, and customer service. Grid operators can capture savings of 10 to 25 percent in frontline operations, engineering planning, work scheduling, and supply-chain optimization.
Realizing digitally enabled effectiveness and efficiency. We help clients develop and implement cutting-edge digital and analytics tools to transform consumer and supplier journeys, enable their distributed workforce digitally, automate manual work processes, improve maintenance and inspections planning and execution, and introduce real-time outage tracking and incident reporting.
Leading innovation and the grid of the future. We help operators manage evolving layers of devices and services in grid networks and move from one-way to more variable two-way electricity flow, which requires more advanced scenario-based planning combined with real-time data management and cyberrisk mitigation.
Achieving continuous improvement through capability building. We work with clients to develop training programs and academies that nurture high-performing leaders and establish best practices that are sustained and embedded throughout the organization.
Our teams review the cost efficiency of the energy and resources used in manufacturing and leverage new sources to create emission-free and waste-free plants. We perform complete product teardowns that include assessing value, resources, product circularity, and emissions, as well as identifying opportunities to substitute lower-carbon/less resource-intensive components without sacrificing performance or margin. We identify the suppliers, technologies, and developers needed to remove carbon from the supply chain, focus on low-carbon procurement and logistics, and improve the carbon footprint of existing suppliers. We take an enterprise resource planning view of how much carbon is being used at each step of the supply chain and targeting areas for the greatest carbon-reduction opportunities.
Investors and financial markets are increasingly demanding a compelling environmental, social, and governance plan and a path to net-zero carbon emissions. As expectations rise and global regulations expand, many organizations still don’t have a solution to the current climate math equation. We help leaders identify the key actions that will get them closer to net zero. We work with them to solve for all key variables in the sustainability equation: carbon emissions, financial performance, capital investment, and societal impact. We diagnose their current sustainability positions, establish quantitative baselines, define clear aspirations, and design actionable sustainability plans. We help clients assess the full potential of their sustainability efforts and analyze implications for portfolio, green growth, and decarbonization. We also help them communicate their strategies and the reasoning behind them to the capital markets.