Utilities

The challenge

The Utilities industry is becoming more challenging. Companies in this sector have to cope with a consolidating competitive environment, demand for heavy investment in generation and grid, new regulatory developments, and more sophisticated customers, to name a few. Industrial clients of power and gas companies need to evaluate new sourcing strategies to optimize their costs and their risk position in energy supply. Regulators must simulate market conditions and at the same time make sure that these companies continue investing in the future.

Boxley Group has deep Utilities industry consulting expertise and exceptional execution capabilities to help our power and gas clients. It’s about making difficult decisions in an unpredictable environment where the differences are often subtle. This is especially true today as utilities confront changing regulations, aging infrastructure assets, skills shortages, fuel price volatility, and the growing consideration of environmental directions. However, utilities looking to build for the future can also look to a fresh set of business solutions enabled by new digital technologies, sensing devices, and software capabilities.

As the US natural gas industry has evolved through deregulation it has been transformed from a relatively benign industry to a highly sophisticated value chain fraught with complexities. Today’s business is characterized by rapid supply and demand imbalances, unpredictable price volatility, and new supply forces (growth in LNG and expansion of unconventional gas sources). As a result, the players have to continuously refresh strategies and in some cases re-invent themselves to stay on top of the market’s dynamics. Boxley Group has domain experience through the competitive natural gas delivery chain, wellhead to burner tip.