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Accenture - Accenture’s Energy group has been a part of the industry for many years. Its experience spans the entire value chain, including upstream, downstream, oil service and pipeline companies. Accenture collaborates with leading energy companies to help them meet competitive challenges—and shape solutions that advance their journey to high performance. Website.  Partner to Xcel Energy on Smart Grid project in Boulder.   *

Arthur D. Little - has worked with all the world's major oil and gas companies throughout its long history covering a wide range of business sectors. These include upstream oil and gas, downstream refining and distribution, gas and power, and transportation. Among the firm's clients are the global energy companies, investors, law firms and policy makers. ADL employs industry specialists and professionals with first hand knowledge and experience in the oil and gas industry. Website.

Altanova - mission is to propose innovative solutions to implement Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy and Waste-to-Resource Solutions for the Built Environment (Residential, Commercial and Industrial), Corporations & Industries.  We, ALTANOVA, New York Office, serve all resource intensive projects in the Hudson River Valley, the Delaware River Valley, and the entire NYC tri-state region. Through the combination of the American and European offices, we greatly welcome opportunities for national and international projects.

Locations: Queens, New York.

website: http://www.altanova-energy.com

Analysis Group - has over two decades of experience assisting electric, gas, and oil industry clients, including energy companies and their customers, regulators, other organizations involved in the energy industry, and law firms engaged in energy litigation.  Our Energy practice is distinguished by expertise in economics, finance, regulatory issues, and public policy, as well as significant experience in environmental economics and energy infrastructure development. Clients have utilized our analyses in many different contexts, including reports; affidavits and expert witness testimony before courts, regulatory agencies, and arbitration panels; and in consulting support for strategic decision-making.

Locations: Multiple.

Website: http://www.analysisgroup.com/analysisgroup/energy.aspx

AUS Consultants - was founded in 1967 to provide financial consulting services to the public utility industry. In the 39 years that followed, AUS has anticipated and witnessed profound change across a broad range of industries. To meet the new challenges brought about by these changes, AUS has grown to include AUS Consultants, ICR, Marketing Systems Group (MSG), CENTRIS, and RoyaltySource™. Together, these AUS operating companies provide exceptional consulting and market research products and services to clients throughout the United States and internationally.  Website. *

Bain & Company - has recently conducted more than 300 projects in the energy and water utility sectors. Corporate strategy projects include portfolio optimization-informed by Bain's proprietary insights on the breakdown of the energy value chain-and classic Bain strategy cases for a deregulating sector. Bain's utilities clients include electricity or nuclear power companies, gas companies, large utility conglomerates, water utilities, gas distribution companies and e-business exchanges. Bain utilities projects span the Americas, Europe and Asia. Website. *

Battelle Consulting - a provider of energy, environmental and safety consulting, and technology services to both government and industrial clients throughout the world. As an internationally recognized science-based organization with a reputation for independence and objectivity, Battelle provides practical solutions to our clients’ complex problems through sound science, engineering solutions and management advice.  Website.

Black & Veatch - offers trusted knowledge and experience, backed by more than 8,500 Black & Veatch professionals and bolstered by the unparalleled capabilities and expertise of our industry-renowned business units – Fortegra, Lukens Energy Group and R.J. Rudden Associates. Working as one, our seasoned professionals blend Black & Veatch's traditional engineering strengths with aggressive, forward- thinking expertise to offer superior depth and experience across a broad range of capabilities, including financial structuring, organizational strengthening, strategic value creation, asset management, customer relationship management, customer information services, portfolio management, operations technologies, IT planning and performance management. Website.  

Booz Allen - has worked with an array of the world's leading energy companies in every category of the business—upstream oil and gas; downstream refining petrochemicals, trading, distribution, and retail; and gas and power, including electricity and gas distribution. Among the firm's clients are global oil companies; local and regional utilities in Europe, the United States, and Latin America; petrochemical manufacturers; financial investors; and policy makers. Website. *

Boston Consulting Group - BCG's Energy practice helps companies navigate the increasingly complex business environment. BCG works with the full range of players in the industry: international energy companies, major integrated oil companies and utilities, global power developers, and emerging energy traders and merchants.  Website. *

BWG - Barrington-Wellesley Group - a general management consulting firm serving the electric, gas, water and telecommunications industries since 1990.  BWG combines the advantages of large-firm knowledge integration and expertise with small-firm responsiveness, competitiveness and creativity.

Cambridge Energy Research Associates - CERA is a leading advisor to international energy companies, governments, financial institutions, and technology providers. CERA delivers critical knowledge and independent analysis on energy markets, geopolitics, industry trends, and strategy. CERA's expertise covers all major energy sectors--oil and refined products, natural gas, and electric power--on a global and regional basis.  Website.

Capgemini - with more than 10,000 consultants dedicated to Energy, Utility and Chemical projects across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, Capgemini brings industry-specific experience to address business problems. Capgemini serves the business consulting and information technology needs of more than 70% of the top 30 private and global utilities and all five of the publicly held oil and gas "super majors." Website. *

Celtic Energy - provides assistance to clients on a broad range of technical and engineering matters. Our specialists will work in conjunction with a client's in-house staff or handle the project in its entirety. Our goal is to not only identify strategic cost reduction opportunities for our clients but also assist in their implementation.

Locations: Rocky Hill, Connecticut; Las Vegas, Nevada.

People: http://www.celticenergy.com/about/index.shtml

Website: http://www.celticenergy.com/

Clean Edge Inc. -  a research and consulting firm helping companies, investors, and governments understand and profit from the emerging clean-tech sector since 2001. Services include: Research and Publishing, Annual Clean-tech Summit, and Strategic Consulting.

Website: http://www.cleanedge.com

Concentric Energy Advisors - CEA offers industry-specific advisory services related to hard assets for clients throughout the energy and water industries which include corporate and asset divestitures, corporate and asset purchases, M&A opportunity reviews and transactions, portfolio optimization reviews and transactions.  Website.  Locations: Marlborough, Massachusetts.

CopperLeaf Technologies - Asset Investment Planning is the approach used by capital-intensive organizations to achieve long-term, sustainable business performance. Through the use of targeted strategies, processes, and tools, Asset Investment Planning aligns the use, care, investment, and disposal of physical assets with corporate objectives and the business environment. The approach also provides a framework to analyze maintenance, rehabilitation, upgrade, and decommissioning of physical assets in context with other production, delivery and supply options. The outcome helps to identify and analyze trade-offs, and allows organizations to achieve an effective balance of profitability, performance, and risk, over time. Locations: Vancouver, Canada.

CRA International - CRA provides expert economic and business consulting services on almost every aspect of the electricity industry to a wide range of clients, including industry organizations, investor-owned utilities, generators, power pools, transmission companies, distribution companies, competitive retailers, companies from other industries, regulators, and governments. Website. *

Deloitte - with more than 2,500 oil and gas professionals worldwide, Deloitte’s Oil & Gas practice is focused on providing audit and enterprise risk services, tax services, consulting services and financial advisory services to companies in all segments of the oil and gas industry. Website.  Energy Practice.  Locations: McLean, Virginia.  *

E Source - information services provide member organizations with unbiased, independent analysis of retail energy markets, services, and technologies. E Source clients include electric and gas utilities and other energy service providers, large corporate and institutional energy users, government agencies, energy service companies, manufacturers, consultants, research institutions, and other organizations in nearly two dozen countries worldwide.  We serve as a high-value filter of the torrent of information on developments in the energy services marketplace, sorting through the hype and providing our clients with concise strategic insights and in-depth technology assessments. Our research team applies its renowned analytic skills, intellectual breadth and rigor, and unparalleled network of contacts to our clients' best advantage--providing exceptional value on research and information that is essential in today's business climate.  By virtue of our close association with both energy service providers and corporate energy users, E Source has a broad, multi-faceted perspective, and we bring an independent viewpoint to bear in our research and reporting. Our international scope allows us to incorporate lessons learned from abroad, relaying the impact of deregulation on markets around the world and helping our clients glean insights applicable to their own business strategies.

Acquisitions: EnergyWindow.

Locations: Boulder, Colorado.

Website: http://www.esource.com

Electric Power Group - provides management and strategic consulting services to the electric power industry.  Consulting areas: Planning, Transmission and Competitive Markets, Reliability, Renewables, Technology, and Contracts. Expertise includes grid monitoring solutions.  Locations: Pasadena, California. Employees: 25-50.  Management.  Website  *

Emerging Energy Research (EER) - is a leading advisory and consulting firm tracking emerging technologies in global energy markets. EER’s mission is to help clients understand, leverage, and exploit the technological, regulatory, and competitive trends in the global emerging energy sector.  We are dedicated to tracking market segments on the cusp of change in the energy industry—those that are the fastest growing, the fastest changing, and most impacted by technology advances, regulatory trends, market trends, and industry re-structuring. Our clients, which include many of the world's largest corporations and technology vendors, seek our informed, objective view and advice on these fast developing markets.  With offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Barcelona, Spain, EER has built an extensive research base in these areas: Global Wind Energy; Clean and Renewable Power Generation; and Biofuels, Hydrogen and Fuel Cells.  Website.

Energetics - provides a full spectrum of support to our government and industry clients. We offer superior analytical and programmatic support from the earliest planning stages, where our facilitation and roadmapping techniques can help determine the critical pathways for achieving strategic goals. Once programs are underway, we offer a variety of tailored support – energy, economic, and environmental analysis; R&D portfolio evaluation; external and internal strategic planning; technology transfer; and communications support – that ensures technical and economic success on both the programmatic and national levels.

Locations: Columbia, Maryland;  Arlington, Virginia; Washington, DC.

Website: http://www.energetics.com

Energy Market Innovations - One of the most significant changes we are witnessing is an ever-increasing focus on customer demand-side management — including energy efficiency, demand response, and distributed generation — to meet new resource needs, optimize system performance, and manage a variety of financial, environmental, and regulatory risks.  Energy Market Innovations helps its clients respond to these challenges and succeed in this new era.

Locations: Seattle, Washington.

Website: http://www.emiconsulting.com/index.html

EnerNex - provides innovative and professional electric power research, engineering and consulting services to government, utilities, industry, and private institutions.  Website.  Locations: Knoxville, Tennessee.  Employees: 25-50.  Management. *

Enspiria Solutions - Enspiria Solutions provides solutions for utilities, cable service providers, public sector and local governments. Our staff of industry and technology experts provides technical and business process consulting, and systems integration solutions to dramatically change and improve the way our clients interact with their customers, partners and suppliers while fully realizing benefits of past, current and future IT investments. With a wealth of industry experience and extensive business consulting and information technology services, we combine proven technology components to deliver working business solutions to our clients. Our partnership approach reduces clients’ risk by delivering proven solutions in less time.  Website.  Locations: Greenwood Village, Colorado; Paris, Ontario, Canada.

Freeman, Sullivan & Co. - is a San Francisco-based energy consulting firm providing strategic policy analysis and analytical support to electric and gas utilities, technology companies, regulators and policy makers. Our experience and expertise is focused on the interface between the energy industry and the customers it serves.  We help utilities, regulators and others understand how markets work, what customers want and need, and how to translate that information into successful strategies, policies and service offerings.  Our senior consultants average more than 20 years of experience and have advanced degrees in economics, quantitative research, public policy and psychology.  We provide our clients with high-quality, defensible analysis, pragmatic advice and direction, and time tested knowledge about what does and does not work based upon decades of relevant experience.

Locations: San Francisco, California.

Staff: http://www.fscgroup.com/fsc/

Website: http://www.fscgroup.com/fsc/

GE Energy Consulting - GE supports many customers with a wealth of telecom expertise, all over the world. Our organization has proven telecommunications domain knowledge, a proven track record of delivery and a proven ability to deliver tangible productivity improvements to the customer. The regional teams work in close cooperation with customers to ensure that the solutions keep pace with their requirements.

Website: http://www.gepower.com/prod_serv/products/tele_soft_present/en/cons_serv.htm

Gee Strategies Group - is a consultancy organization with expertise in policy analysis, advocacy and litigation support for the energy, utility and critical infrastructure sectors.  Website.

GeoPraxis - an energy efficiency research and development consultancy, has led the design and development of some of the demand-side management industry’s most innovative and successful information technologies and programs. GeoPraxis provides expert market research and program design, implementation, and evaluation consulting services to energy utilities, government agencies, and private industry. GeoPraxis also operates EnergyCheckup.com, the real estate industry’s most successful energy efficiency information web tool for home inspectors, REALTORS®, and their clients.  Website.

Gestalt - a leading provider of mission-critical command and control (C2); modeling, simulation and training and energy management solutions. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.  Accenture (NYSE:ACN), a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, has agreed to acquire Gestalt.  Website.

Global Change Associates Inc. (GCA) - was founded in 1991 by Peter C. Fusaro to focus on the convergence of energy and environmental financial markets. Peter is a recognized “thought leader” on energy and environmental markets, and he provides advisory on creating a profitable future for our clients. Thus, GCA's focus is on recognizing opportunities in both sustainable energy and environmental projects for hedge funds, venture capital in clean technology, family office, investment banks and selected energy companies. Our research is cutting edge and customized to meet client needs. We were the first company to publish energy industry reports on Enron in 2001, energy e-commerce in 1999 and on energy hedge funds in 2004. Our intellectual curiosity and our market intelligence are second to none as we have an extensive global network of energy industry experts. We believe in “high tech, high touch” which encompasses the capabilities of the Internet coupled with the importance of human personal contact.  Website.

Global Energy Concepts - a multi-discipline engineering and technology consulting firm providing services to clients involved in the energy industry. Recognized as leaders in the wind energy industry, the firm specializes in the analysis, design, testing, and management of wind energy systems and projects. Our experience includes both utility-scale and small-scale applications of wind energy technologies. GEC combines technical expertise, managerial capabilities, and common-sense financial and business knowledge to provide comprehensive consulting services to assist our clients in meeting their objectives.  Website.  HQ: Seattle, Washington.

Global Energy Partners - an employee-owned consulting and applied research firm specializing in energy efficiency and demand response programmatic solutions and the assessment and demonstration of innovative technology applications. Locations: Lafayette, California; St. Louis, Missouri; Raleigh, North Carolina.

Global Smart Energy - Energy - Smart Grid Page. *

Harbor Research - Founded in 1983, Harbor Research, Inc. has more than twenty years of experience in providing strategic consulting and research services that enable our clients to understand and capitalize on emergent and disruptive opportunities in high technology. In our history, the firm has provided guidance to a wide range of technology suppliers and adopters through major market discontinuities driven by emergent technologies. Locations: Boston, Massachusetts; San Francisco, California; London, England.  Employees: Less than 10.

Horizon Energy Group - Energy - Smart Grid Page.  *

IBM (Energy and Utilities Practice) - help in meeting the challenges of today's erratic global energy markets. With local teams that understand your unique business and regulatory climates, we offer the technology and services you need.  Website.  *

ICF International - a global professional services firm, partners with government and commercial clients to deliver consulting services and technology solutions in energy, climate change, environment, transportation, social programs, health, defense, and emergency management.  Website.

Invaluable Technologies - is a consulting firm that focuses on quality solutions and customer service to enhance your business through the world of information technology. We are a privately owned venture that strives to define the pinnacle of quality. This goal is attainable because we are comprised of brilliant minds that believe in our quality focus, demand personal excellence, and understand the importance of on-going education.  We are currently located in Chicago, IL and Jacksonville, FL. We have leveraged our internal brilliance and technology tools to bridge all gaps of distance. This bridge allows us to provide a productivity driven, synergistic environment of quality solution development for clients all over the country. Website.

IT Energy Consulting (IT-EC) - is a division under Invaluable Technologies (see above) specializing in the vital energy areas of demand response, AMI, AMR, energy data related software, and energy products and services portfolio management. IT-EC incorporates our energy industry experience with a deep technology knowledge and successful software development history.  Website.  *

Lime Energy - provider of energy efficiency solutions.  Website.  HQ: Chicago, Illinois.

McKinsey & Company - McKinsey's Petroleum Practice helps clients both in meeting their near term performance challenges and in devising strategies to succeed in today's complicated world. McKinsey serves many of the world's most important oil companies in North America, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. McKinsey’s Electric Power & Natural Gas Practice serves incumbents and new entrants in this rapidly expanding and liberalized sector. McKinsey helps clients deal with issues related to organization, including restructuring, skill-building, and top team management; operations, including capital investment, cost reductions, performance improvement, and networks and logistics; and strategy, including mission, sales, economics, and procurement. Website. *

KEMA - Our mission is clear and focused -to provide the insights energy and utility executives worldwide need to achieve and sustain tangible, competitive advantages and to achieve extraordinary returns from their technology investments. We realize our mission through an integrated team of management and technical consultants whose innovative thinking and in-depth understanding of your business and the technologies that can drive and enhance it deliver our clients remarkable results, time and time again.

Board Of Directors: http://www.kema.com/corporate/company_profile/Company/

Locations: Burlington (HQ), Massachusetts; Fairfax, Virginia.

People: http://www.kema.com/corporate/company_profile/Company/

Website: http://www.kema.com/consulting_services/

(The) Liberty Consulting Group - provides general management, planning, operational, financial, restructuring, regulatory, and policy consulting services in the energy and telecommunications industries. Our success has come from our ability to earn, sustain, and enhance a reputation for the knowledge, candor, integrity, and objectivity it takes to serve both public utility commissions and the companies they regulate. Few firms can match our ability to maintain credibility with all stakeholders on the often novel and controversial issues that the utility industry faces. We help our clients to address the challenges of changing and uncertain economic, business, technical, and regulatory environments. *

Website: http://www.libertyconsultinggroup.com/

Market Development Group - delivers high-energy marketing program strategies and tactics designed to achieve strategic base and peak energy load objectives.  We design, develop and deliver innovative marketing plans and programs that address energy efficiency, renewable energy, demand response and customer service goals.

Locations: Montrose, Colorado; Frederick, Maryland. 

Website:  http://www.marketdevelop.com/

McKinsey & Company

Website: http://www.mckinsey.com/clientservice/electricpowernaturalgas/

MCR Performance Solutions - was founded in 1999 on the principle our clients deserve the industry’s best insights delivered through the highest quality and innovative solutions. Our founding partners have maintained that mission in every engagement our firm completes. MCR is a boutique consulting firm providing specialized advice with seasoned professionals. Each member of our consulting staff has over fifteen years of industry experience. We use our collective knowledge and expertise in the energy industry to provide customized solutions to help our clients stretch their thinking, optimize their resources and achieve their goals.

Locations: Northbrook, Illinois.

People: http://www.mcr-group.com/index.jsp?snav=38&pnav=1

Website: http://www.mcr-group.com/index.jsp?pnav=1

Metavu - In hindsight, it will seem obvious that energy and environmental issues have always been an integral component of every successful business model. But for now, MetaVu is leading businesses in defining their sustainable business strategy for long term profitability through optimization of products, services and business models to manage energy, social and environmental risk throughout the value chain. Our approach is holistic, incorporating knowledge across related, but independent disciplines. Experience teaches us that environmental business issues — whether related to operating assets, product development or establishing and maintaining a corporate social license to operate — draw upon subject-matter and domain-expertise from several disciplines including business, economic, legal, regulatory, risk, technical, human capital and cultural.   Our mission is to help our clients deliver improved shareholder returns through development and execution of sustainable business strategy for long-term value creation. 

Locations: Denver, Colorado.

Website: http://www.metavu.com

Mendota Group - primarily serves executives, managers, and practitioners within the utility industry. Among the services the Group offers include: Strategy development, Testimony development, Project management, Financial modeling, Legislative advocacy, Scenario planning, and Resource planning. Website.  St. Paul, Minnesota.  Employees: Less than 10.

Mercer - See Oliver Wyman (below).

Navigant - consulting for for power generators, transmission owners, energy end-users, equipment manufacturers, regulators and investors alike. We offer deep industry knowledge, functional expertise, and a range of services: Financial and Strategic Advisory; Operations Advisory; Litigation, Regulatory and Markets; Technology Strategy and Management; Renewable & Distributed Energy.  Website. *

NewEnergy Associates - a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Power Generation (SPG), is a leading global provider of end-to-end information technology and consulting solutions for energy planning, decision support, and operations. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, NewEnergy has been specializing in the development and support of integrated business applications for more than 30 years. With clients in 19 countries, NewEnergy serves power and gas utilities, marketers and traders, energy retailers, power generators, and transmission companies, as well as state and federal governments.  Website.

New Paradigm Resources Group (NPRG) - is the nation’s leading strategic consulting and research firm for innovators within the communications industry.  NPRG provides business strategy and technology advice to our clients.  To accomplish this, we identify, analyze and forecast emerging technologies and trends, support mission critical decision-making processes for service providers, technology developers and financial institutions, and deliver proven business strategies, product plans and market forecasts, enabling clients to succeed within evolving market conditions. Has a practice area serving energy companies.

Locations: Chicago, Illinois.

People: http://www.nprg.com/ABOUTUS/tabid/144/Default.aspx

Website: http://www.nprg.com

Locations: Ellicott City, Maryland.

Website: http://www.newton-evans.com

Nexant - Our goal is to help clients successfully meet the challenges they face in the global energy market.  We accomplish this by: Building world-class consulting solutions that achieve optimum results; Offering an array of increasingly powerful expert services to meet the changing needs of the industry.  Website.  Management.  Locations.  Employees: 100-500. Locations: Chandler, Arizona; ...  *

NextWave Energy - NextWave Energy supports private sector firms seeking to grow or build businesses in the energy sector, by providing advice on strategy and capital formation, thereby enabling entrepreneurs and executives to achieve commercial success and create wealth.  Website.

(The) Northbridge Group - is a leading economic and strategic consulting firm serving the electricity and natural gas industries, including both regulated utilities and other companies active in the competitive wholesale and retail markets.  We apply market insights, rigorous quantitative skills, and regulatory expertise to complex business problems, always seeking to preserve and build our clients’ shareholder value. A unique set of attributes allows us to consistently create value for clients: Experienced, senior staff with deep industry and analytic expertise; Focus on practical, high-impact solutions to real world problems; Ability to integrate across regulated and competitive functions; Collaborative working style. Founded in 1992, we have approximately 25 consultants who serve a national client base from our office located just outside Boston in Concord, Massachusetts.

Locations: Concord, Massachusetts.

Website: http://www.nbgroup.com/contact/

Oliver Wyman - combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development. The firm works with clients to deliver sustained shareholder value growth. We help managers to anticipate changes in customer priorities and the competitive environment, and then design their businesses, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities.   Website.  Employees: More than 1000.  *

PA Consulting Group - our global energy and utilities consulting practice is actively engaged with energy and financial institutions worldwide. We apply this global perspective to develop new approaches to emerging problems, approaches that take clients beyond their current thinking. We design and implement innovative solutions to achieve lasting change. PA’s energy and utilities consultants work with international energy companies, major lending institutions, energy distributions and consumers, and governments to help them evaluate change and capitalize on opportunities.  Locations: Denver.   Website.  *

Pace Global - Industry decision-makers rely on Pace as a trusted advisor and partner in an increasingly complex, global, and evolving energy marketplace. We serve a diverse client base throughout the world and our exceptional energy professionals enable us to offer insightful market, strategic, and tactical perspectives. We help our clients make important decisions, manage for financial success, and exceed performance goals. 

Locations: Fairfax, Virginia.

Website: http://www.paceglobal.com

Paragon Consulting - is a premier IT consulting firm with a 14 year track record of building trusting relationships helping our clients achieve their goals using technology to help solve business problems.

Locations: Cleveland, Ohio.

Website: http://www.paragon-inc.com/

PredictPower - offers real-time energy price and consumption forecast information systems that save you time and money. Specifically-designed for commercial and industrial (C&I) facilities, our software gives you the decision making tools you need to minimize risk, reduce your projected energy spending, and improve your bottom line. With PredictPower, you can optimize energy usage and simplify procurement. We also offer professional services to custom design a total energy management solution. *

Locations: Encinitas, California.

Website: http://acreutz.com/PredictPowerPages/index.htm

PRTM Energy Practice - While all industry segments scramble to capitalize on the unprecedented profitability in the oil markets, each segment faces unique operational challenges. Upstream companies are coping with dwindling prospects in conventional exploration, fierce competition for new resources, and equipment shortages. Downstream, the refining capacity is at a premium but new investment is hampered by regulatory hurdles and public opposition. New compliance standards for cleaner fuels create further challenges and stretch companies’ ability to ship segregated products without contamination. Petrochemical producers struggle to differentiate themselves in the marketplace. Utility companies contend with deregulation, sky-high fuel costs, and antiquated infrastructure. Meanwhile, service and equipment providers to the entire energy supply chain are hard-pressed to satisfy the soaring demand for their products and services.  Website.

Quanta Technology - provides assistance to our customers in improving reliability and business performance through the application of technology and technical best practices. Whether you need strategic advice, system simulations, outage investigations, or engineering support, Quanta Technology is a one-stop source for all of your technical and life-cycle management needs. We employ the top technical talent in the industry, and have a proven track record for improving performance and better managing risk.

Locations: Raleigh, North Carolina.

Website: http://www.quanta-technology.com/index.htm

R.J. Rudden - strategic, economic and management consulting firm specializing in energy and utility matters. We deliver value through the application of first-hand industry expertise, strong implementation capabilities, thought leadership and a team-based philosophy that facilitates the transfer of knowledge to our clients.  Website.

R. W. Beck - providing solutions to complex problems. We serve clients in the energy and utility, financial, water resources, water, wastewater and solid waste industries by providing independent, insightful analysis of their situation and offering realistic solutions to their engineering, economic and organizational challenges.  Website.

(The) Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) - Energy - Regulators Page. *

Regulatory Research Associates (RRA) - provides independent research and consultation on electric utility securities and regulation, with a 24-year reputation for unmatched expertise in both areas. Knowing the financial and strategic impact of state-level regulation is the key to success in the energy business. And, with the expert analysis and proprietary data provided by Regulatory Research Associates, you have access to the best available intelligence on regulatory issues affecting utilities.  Website. *

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants - is a privately-owned global strategy consulting firm with 31 offices in 22 countries. The consultancy has nearly 1,700 employees, with more than 130 partners. The company's industry areas include automotive; chemicals and oil; consumer goods and retail; engineered products and high tech; financial services; telecommunications, IT and media; pharmaceuticals and health care; public services; transportation; and utilities. Website.  Locations: Worldwide; Detroit, Michigan; New York, New York.  Employees: More than 1000.

SAIC Energy Consulting - By drawing on our deep scientific experience and innovative business solutions, SAIC Consulting helps clients such as BP, Shell, and ChevronTexaco manage digital oil field initiatives and business challenges such as integrating mergers, optimizing business processes, and organizational transformation. Our expertise in creating oil recovery technologies, such as virtual control rooms and advanced reservoir simulations, can help generate increases in oil field production and lifetime. SAIC Consulting acquired Arthur Andersen's North American Oil and Gas practice. Our new consultants continue to perform their well-known benchmarking of major and mid-tier oil companies to measure the efficiency of general and administrative cost structures, and they recently initiated a benchmarking study to address operating costs and capital expenditures. Website. 

Salmon Ventures - is a New Jersey-based firm that provides national consulting services to utilities, government agencies, school districts, trade organizations, and businesses. Salmon Ventures has assembled a professional team whose members are recognized for their accredited experience in the water, energy, communication, transportation, gaming, finance and real estate industries as well as local, county and state levels of New Jersey government.

Locations: Millville, New Jersey.

Website: http://www.salmonventujres.com

Sargent & Lundy - provides comprehensive engineering, energy business consulting, and project services for new and operating power plants and power delivery systems. On a continuing basis, we support hundreds of diverse clients, working with many on multiple, concurrent projects. Our comprehensive capabilities provide clients and partners with a thoroughly reliable source of expertise.

Locations: Chicago, Illinois; Wilmington, Delaware; Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Website: http://www.sargentlundy.com

ScottMadden Energy Practice - ScottMadden provides broad, deep energy expertise coupled with practical business acumen. We have helped energy industry companies—both large and small—develop and implement their strategies, plan their businesses, improve their processes, restructure their organizations, and produce results.  When it comes to managing in the energy industry, we have indeed done it all. In the process, we have learned the value of listening to our clients carefully, tailoring our work to meet their unique needs, and rolling up our sleeves to produce solutions that ensure they can compete in this ever-changing industry. Website.  *

Sirius Solutions - is a management consulting company that offers four major service lines: Financial Reporting and Transaction Support, Business Processes and Controls, Risk Management and Management Information.  Started in 1998 by four former Accenture partners, the firm has grown to revenues of approx. $50 million and 350 people and was featured in the INC. 500 fastest growing private companies (Number 33 in 2006). With offices in Houston, Denver, Dallas, New York and London, Sirius Solutions serves a large number of Fortune 500 companies in various industries.  Our professionals average more than 10 years of subject matter expertise in their chosen field.  In addition to our business consultants, Sirius Solutions provides staff augmentation with contract and permanent staff.  Website. *

SgurrEnergy - was founded in June 2002 to fill a gap in the UK renewable energy market. We are an independent consultancy specializing in the assessment, development, design and project management of renewable energy projects. Although newly created, the founders of the company have extensive experience in the fields of energy provision, energy conservation, energy efficiency and renewable energy having spent a combined total of 75 man-years working in the electrical supply industry.  We offer expertise in wind and hydro-based energy technologies, and also provide a wider range of services, including solar, biomass and wave power technology.
We are a team of dedicated, highly motivated professionals with hands-on experience of project development and management, both in Scotland and internationally. The team covers a number of disciplines, each member having specialist skills as well as a broad understanding of renewable and sustainable energy.  Website.  Locations: Glasgow, United Kingdom; Beijing, China; Mumbai, India  Employees: 50-100.  *

Skipping Stone - is a professional resources company with over 200 clients worldwide.  Our primary focus is the energy and related technologies industry.  We serve clients by utilizing our expansive network of industry experienced professionals. 

Locations: Tampa, Florida; Houston, Texas; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Hamilton Beach, California.

People: http://www.skippingstonellc.com/index-new.html

Website: http://www.skippingstonellc.com

Spirae - developing solutions for large-scale integration of renewables, distributed generation, and demand response into a seamless system that works for system operators, utilities, and end users.  Employees: 10-20. *

Locations: Fort Collins, Colorado.

Website: http://www.spirae.com

StrateGen Consulting - is a California-based consulting firm committed to designing and implementing successful market entry and development strategies for renewable energy and clean technology firms. We develop compelling value propositions for our clients through the intelligent integration of product, market and regulatory strategies. Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy and clean technologies in existing and new markets, and deliver measurable results to clients—in order to ensure a sustainable environment for the future.

Locations: Berkeley, California.

People: http://www.strategen.com/team.htm

Website: http://www.strategen.com/index.htm

Strategy Integration - has served a very diverse client base. This developed knowledge and expertise, expanded by a broad spectrum of views and disciplines, serves to leverage the client’s search for extraordinary solutions to difficult issues. Critical listening competencies facilitate joint learning by systematizing energy practice problems and bringing the best facts and theory to bear. A crucial step is to define both explicit and implicit strategies that will produce knowledge and insight about the critical issues. The art is enabling clients to leverage knowledge that will resolve critical issues and achieve superior decisions.  Thus, the primary aims are for clients to (1) have greater vision about issues and options, (2) synthesize and apply financially viable strategies, and (3) build confidence in the basis for critical decisions.  Website. #

Synapse Energy Economics - provides research, testimony, reports and regulatory support to consumer advocates, environmental organizations, regulatory commissions, state energy offices, and others. The firm was founded in May 1996 to specialize in consulting on energy, economic, and environmental topics. We have a professional staff of eighteen with more than 250 years of combined experience in the electricity and natural gas industries.  Locations: Cambridge, Massachusetts.  People: 20-50.  Management.  Website.

Summit Blue Consulting - a consulting firm serving energy companies and the utility industry in North America. Our focus is on the design, implementation, and evaluation of energy efficiency, demand response, and renewable energy programs; pricing; risk assessment; market research; and management and business strategy development.  Locations: Boulder, Colorado; Walnut Creek, California; Chicago, Illinois; Hinesburg, Vermont.

Website: http://www.summitblue.com

Technology Insights - is a consulting firm that specializes in assessing and supporting the development and deployment of emerging technologies related to energy generation, distribution, utilization and management.

Locations: San Diego, California.

Website: http://www.technologyinsights.com/

Thorndike Landing - a management consulting firm specializing in financial, market and transaction-related services for the energy industry. Because our senior professionals have significant expertise throughout each sector of the electric, natural gas and biofuels industries, it is not surprising that market participants in these industries and others have retained our team to perform a wide variety of special studies.

Website: http://thorndikelanding.com

UMS Group - UMS Group is an international Management Consulting firm founded in 1989 to serve the global Utilities industry. We specialize in enterprise-level value creation and performance management solutions. We bring to our clients a unique knowledge of global industry best practices, an advanced library of diagnostic methodologies and benchmarking data, and our worldwide base of utility strategic and operational expertise.  Website.

ValueTech Solutions - We provide assistance to both vendors and utilities, specializing in all of the issues associated with development of new technologies, implementation of new systems, and formulation of load management or demand response programs—areas where, normally, utilities, municipal authorities and utility cooperatives do not staff the depth of experience needed to allow them to negotiate effectively with equipment suppliers, system integrators and energy marketers.

We know the key players and are familiar with virtually every AMR technology. ValuTech Solutions will help you establish profitable partnerships or collaborations that add value to your business and leverage your own core competencies, to provide best in class system solutions. We specialize in providing a total market perspective: technology advances, industry trends, regulatory change and cost/benefit impact.

Locations: Moon Township, Pennsylvania.

Website: http://www.valutechsolutions.com

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