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Ricardo Energy & Environment Services
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Energy Markets
Energy markets around the world have recently undergone substantial changes including deregulation, privatisation, mergers, the growing trend towards decarbonisation, and the unbundling of former state-owned monopolies. A number of different energy markets models have been implemented internationally. Contemporary concerns about energy security, coupled with the need to integrate large volumes of new renewable energy technologies and efficiently pool ...
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Energy Resource Planning
Integrated resource planning seeks to establish the most energy efficiency balance between different types of generation and the correct balance of supply and demand, establishing tradeoffs between (for example) the implementation of energy efficiency measures and the provision of new power plant. Today although the commercial context has largely changed from the days of centrally planned infrastructure, sustainable investment in the energy sector still ...
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Strategic Business Planning
The energy sector continues to attract strong inflows of investment, but in many regions external constraints mean that capacity shortages exist. In addition, there are many parts of the world where elements of the sector remain in public hands, and there is ongoing need for energy sector reform to improve efficiency and create a climate conducive to sustainable investment. Particular challenges exist in regions which are highly dependent on expensive or ...
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Change Management
The energy industry has seen substantial change over the past 20 years, resulting in wide-scale privatisation, downsizing and restructuring into new commercial entities. In many parts of the world these processes are still ongoing, and new commercial or public sector entities are being set up. In addition, regulatory organisations and government departments continue to evolve their organisations to fit commercial or corporatized models. For change ...
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Sustainability
PPA Energy understands Sustainability to mean that the energy sector needs to be environmentally sustainable at the same time as being economically sustainable. Key pillars of sustainability include: energy efficiency , loss management, and customer participation in supply and demand management; integration of renewable energy and green energy technologies; awareness of, and management of, carbon emissions and carbon reduction, and in many regions of the ...
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Innovation
Today, the pressures of environmental concerns, the need for green energy, energy security, and the growth of renewable energy and the need to make assets work harder and longer all present significant technical challenges, both for new investors, and for the owners of more established electrical systems, as they seek to adapt their infrastructure and their business model to more innovative solutions. Thus, innovation matters because it is “the ...