Transmission & Distribution

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.

We have developed a range of proprietary tools to help clients understand their performance and identify gaps:

• Benchmarking tools for distribution. Data from a growing sample of more than 45 companies provides insight into how to optimize capital and operating expenditures as well as where to employ outsourcing strategies.
• Utilityx. Our advanced-analytics tool helps electric-power utilities improve network performance and reduce costs by using predictive asset management.
• TETRIS for regulatory and financial modeling. The TETRIS tool helps investor-owned North American utilities maximize value by identifying capital opportunities in traditional grid assets, grid modernization, and unregulated assets; forecasting load loss and grid defection; assessing customer affordability; and evaluating the impact on earnings of different regulatory scenarios.
• Lean frontline operations playbooks. These playbooks combine lean management with digital operations to drive improvement in all major parts of transmission and distribution operations and include tailored analyses, ideas registers, and a wide array of function-specific case examples.