Forecasting where your business will go as fundamentals, technicals, policies, and infrastructures shift is just plain hard to do. Deciding where to invest, what to retire, which location to bet on, or what prices to forecast means knowing the markets inside and out. This is especially hard if you don't spend your entire day steeped in the data, the trends, history, and the future. Luckily, we do.

Our Experience

ESAI has helped over 200 companies navigate the sharp crevices and deep waters of the energy sector through our custom consulting services. We apply the same detailed analytical approach we take with our written research to our consulting engagements. We help clients insure that the critical choices and decisions they are making are the best for their business - financially and holistically.

Sample of Recent Projects

Each one of our consulting engagements is designed to meet our clients' needs. Please contact us by phone at 781.245.2036 or by email at esai@esai.com to discuss our capabilities.

Strategic Planning

• Asset Investment: ESAI functioned as an advisor to a major utility through their strategic planning process to help them make the right choices about optimum locations and asset investments.
• RFP Support: A major university enlisted ESAI to develop a creative bid strategy for electricity purchasing and advise on appropriate cost and risk exposure techniques.
• Fuel Procurement: To assist with the development of a fuel procurement strategy for a government entity, ESAI performed a detailed critique of fuel procurement policies of a department in the U.S. government.
• Asset Bid Strategies: Retained by an international energy producer, ESAI provided insight and analysis into selected properties and property bundles to assist the company in bidding effectively for hydro-electric plants in New York.

Custom Analysis

• Transmission Projects: Engaged by a membership organization ESAI coupled the NERC database of future transmission projects with a proprietary database to develop a view on national transmission infrastructure needs.
• Asset Valuation: Working with a major transmission and generator owner, ESAI developed option values for a major southern market power plant in order to assess cash flow expectations.
• Government Policy: Hired by an industrialized Asian government, ESAI performed an in depth analysis of the relationship between energy policy and petroleum industry deregulation.
• Risk Management: ESAI assessed the impact of trading practices on oil price volatility to provide insight for a major Japanese oil firm.
• Price Protection: On behalf of a U.S. trade association, ESAI conducted a major derivatives and insurance instrument survey for the U.S. power markets to recommend a strategy to protect its members from catastrophic price increases.

Market Sizing

• Automotive Fuels: ESAI created market outlooks for clean diesel, methanol in fuel cells, and ethanol for a major automobile manufacturer.
• Power Markets: Enlisted by an organization, ESAI evaluated the current state of U.S. power market forward trading activity.
• Petroleum Products: ESAI sized the market for Middle East and African petroleum products for an African-based refiner.

Litigation Support

• Trading: ESAI acted as the expert witness for litigation concerning a derivatives and options trading dispute between a large European bank and a national oil company.
• Pricing: ESAI utilized its expertise in oil pricing to provide expert witness in a pricing dispute for a major international oil and gas company.

Please contact us for more information on our consulting services: 781.245.2036 or esai@esai.com.