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Formerly known as Market Intelligence & Analytics

Power and Utilities

The Power & Utilities practice under the Crisil Intelligence vertical has been working for more than three decades with multilateral and bilateral institutions, expert committees, various state governments, PSUs and corporations, private sector entities, private equity investors, regulators and financiers. Our offerings and work cover the entire power sector value chain, including generation, transmission, distribution and trading. Our services span reforms and restructuring, policy advocacy, strategic planning, operational improvements, institutional capacity building, business planning, impact assessment studies and bid advisory, to name a few.

Our team of domain experts have worked across the power sector value chain

  • Project procurements through global competitive bidding
  • Reforms and restructuring
  • Privatization
  • Developing  policies and legislation
  • Facilitating accounting reforms
  • Structuring bankable projects
  • Managing corporatization/privatization/private sector participation programmes
  • Designing risk management strategies and power market studies
  • Preparing roadmaps, including load forecasting
  • Project Appraisals
  • Internal audit processes and MIS
  • Feasibility studies
  • Fiscal and public sector reforms
  • Filing of tariff petitions and determination of electricity tariff
  • Valuation
  • Developing innovative IT tools to improve business processes and monitor progress and  compliance
  • Preparing and updating standard operating procedure documents
  • Organisational review, including capacity building
  • Supporting top management in framing business strategy
  • Market scanning for new investment opportunities

The practice has played a key role in developing India’s energy sector, from helping frame the provisions of the Electricity Act, 2003 and the regulatory architecture to advising developers on ultra-mega power projects, supporting power sector utilities and regulators and assisting private equity investors in analysing investment opportunities.

While our policy and regulatory work have enabled the development of a competitive power market, our strategic advisory and risk-based project planning has helped clients bag projects and make large investments in the sector. Moreover, our international experience in developed and developing economies helps us to bring a global perspective and add value to our engagements.

We are the first port of call for numerous developing countries seeking to learn from the Indian experience. Our team comprises highly experienced professionals with long years of association with developers, investors, decision-makers and lenders, supported by a network of international experts who have worked in global energy markets.