As economic shifts and deregulation transform the electric power, natural gas, and water industries throughout the world, our Electric Power & Natural Gas Practice serves incumbents and new entrants in this rapidly expanding and liberalized sector. We help 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.

Market knowledge, flexibility, and risk management are all essential to success in today's competitive generation and wholesale trading markets. We advise clients on upstream strategies and expand their understanding of generation and trading markets through modeling and analysis.

Consistent, excellent performance and growth are twin requirements for success as liberalization and unbundling focus pressure on this industry. Our practice helps clients seize unbundling opportunities, leverage existing assets and customer relations, and build new businesses through acquisition or organic growth.

Under liberalization, retailing of electric power, natural gas, and energy products has attracted many new competitors to both brick-and-mortar and dot-com sectors. We help clients address increasing competition through new products and services, as well as develop and execute marketing strategies and core customer processes.

Capital-market pressures are increasingly focused on each segment of the value chain. We work with clients to identify opportunities and assess alternatives for increasing shareholder and market value.

Distributed generation, home networks, and other emerging technologies offer significant growth and discontinuity opportunities for many of our clients, as well as for potential new entrants. The practice continually evaluates new technologies and helps clients identify and capitalize on them.

We track growth and evolution of the global electric power, natural gas, and water markets, providing public- and private-sector clients around the world with counsel and analysis on market and regulatory reform.