Energy companies face a range of challenges as they adapt to a changing regulatory environment, to political, economic and market pressure, and to technological development.

These changes require superior professional services to ensure sound project and organisational structures, solid financial packaging arrangements, comprehensive financial reporting information, wise global tax planning and proactive management strategy.

Deloitte has a long and successful history of working with key players in the energy and utility industry within New Zealand and Australasia, with a focus on:

• The electricity industry - generation, transmission and distribution
• The gas industry - transmission and distribution
• The water industry - any elements that have been corporatised, privatised, or are open to competitive tender

Energy and utility companies look to us for insight and solutions in the following areas:

• Strategic planning advice
• Re-engineering services to support systems implementation e.g. SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft
• Development of bespoke software products
• Information technology related services
• Value based management
• Customer and product profitability
• International benchmarking
• Change management
• Risk management

Supplementary services relevant to the energy and utilities sector include:

• Investment / divestment
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Industry-specific skills such as retail pricing strategies, transfer pricing structures and long run marginal costing analysis

As a key service provider to the energy and utilities industry, Deloitte keeps pace with industry and regional developments and anticipates both country-specific and global trends. We help clients devise strategies to anticipate and respond to change, playing an integral role in national regulatory reform, privatisation, and industry-wide restructuring.

Contact Paul Callow for more information.