UtiliPoint’s® Utility and Energy Technology Practice (UET) rapidly delivers research and analytical insights to help our clients make better strategic, operating, and investment decisions. Our clients include large investor owned utilities, municipal utilities, and rural cooperative utilities, industry investors, and utility information technology, and energy technology companies.
With a broad client base, 71 years of history, hundreds of projects under our belts, and a staff that is comprised of leading energy experts with diverse backgrounds in utility generation, transmission & distribution, retail markets, mergers and acquisitions, emerging technologies, investment capital, information technology, renewable energy, regulatory affairs, and international issues; we are a prominent consulting firm dedicated to helping energy companies, investors, regulators, and governments maximize the value of unfolding markets.
Clients leverage our knowledge and capabilities by engaging UET in:
- Custom research and analysis to rapidly understand current and emerging market conditions, the competitive landscape, customer and channel needs, and analyze the business implications of market and competitive conditions. Further, we identify potential opportunities to capitalize on these market conditions—or, conversely, avoid hazards making our insight immediately actionable. Typical projects range from 2-10 weeks.
- Advisory Services to receive the best of UtiliPoint® International’s research in addition to analyst access, analyst inquiry time, and market education on a long term, ongoing basis. Further, we provide a range of analysis tools, for example, UtiliPoint’s Technology Vendor Analysis Matrix, marketing improvement counsel, strategic and operational advice, and continuing education programs to clients of the Advisory Service. Typical Advisory Service engagements are 1-3 years.
- Market consulting to obtain business initiative specific insight, analysis, project management (via PMO), and implementation assistance. UtiliPoint’s® market consulting services help you successfully address the challenges and opportunities facing your business by working with UtiliPoint experts on a project, contract, or ad hoc basis. Our shoulder-to-shoulder approach to consulting helps businesses to identify areas for change, to implement that change, and to measure increases in efficiency, and economic advantage while decreasing risk and uncertainty. Market consulting is an integrated approach to consulting. We blend quantitative research, qualitative analysis and consulting that follows predetermined research objectives, and proven methodology in order to maximize the value of our solution and the return on our clients’ investment. Often clients combine Advisory Services with market consulting enabling them to augment our ongoing research with proprietary advice and studies. Typical projects range from 2-12 weeks.
- Publications and publication services. UtiliPoint International publishes IssueAlert™,® and Customer Care/Emerging Technologies IssueAlert™®. These publications provide continuing, timely, thought provoking, and actionable insight to industry players and participants. UtiliPoint also writes articles, white papers, and other special reports about the industry, technology, and markets. Typical writing projects range from 2 – 8 weeks.
Research and Consulting Approach
UET research and consulting focuses on the space between conventional full-scale, multi-month, management consulting projects and general off-the-shelf industry reports. Our skills include framing problems and rapidly building fact bases from database and intensive field research. Our deliverables to clients are actionable analyses and answers, whether the issue is market opportunity, competitive assessment, operational performance, technology investment strategy, or other business insight.
At UtiliPoint® International research and consulting are two-sided processes: From the client consulting perspective, we work to find what information (data/analysis) helps clients determine a clearer and better course of action. From the research perspective, we work to maintain clear scoping, a tight process, and to applying skills, and experience in knowing where to find reliable data, and how best to analyze the data collected in order to provide a full picture and actionable answer.
UtiliPoint® International will be pleased to discuss your situation with you and advise you on which of our services or service combination will best meet your needs.
