For more than half a century, NERA’s economists have advised on the development and reform of regulatory frameworks and competitive markets for power and utility services around the world. Today, NERA’s experts continue to assist utility clients with complex matters of price regulation, competition, and market design. Our work increasingly focuses on the challenges these industries face to mitigate and adapt to climate change, replace fossil fuels with low carbon and renewable energy sources, electrify transport and heating demand, and accommodate changes in how customers consume utility services due to smart metering and enhancements in Distributed Energy Resource technologies. 

NERA’s experts combine deep understanding of economics with vast global experience supporting the power, utilities, and renewable industries and the supply chains supporting these industries. Our experience spans the whole power and utilities value chain: conventional and renewable power generation, competitive power procurement processes, wholesale market design, regulation of transmission pricing, and access to the regulation of electricity, gas, and water utilities. Across these areas, NERA works on the most important, high-profile matters that affect consumer, investor, and national interests.   

NERA’s power, utilities, and renewables experts focus on advisory matters and disputes. On advisory assignments, we assist companies, regulators, investors, and policymakers in developing, evaluating, and enhancing policy reforms and trade matters, as well as on business strategy and major investment decisions. In disputes, our experts prepare written evidence and present oral testimony in international arbitration, commercial litigation, bankruptcy, antitrust investigations, and regulatory proceedings.