Strategy & Risk
Strategic Support in a Dynamic Energy Environment
NDB Holding Group helps utilities, investors, and governments make well-informed strategic and financial decisions and execute effectively in an increasingly volatile and rapidly evolving energy landscape.
As the utility sector becomes more complex, we support clients in addressing opportunities and challenges arising from the transition to a decarbonized society, the growth of renewables, pressure from new market entrants, and ongoing market liberalization and reform.
What We Do
Driving Strategic and Operational Excellence in Utilities
Developing Corporate Strategy: NDB Holding Group identifies growth opportunities in a rapidly evolving sector and enhances decision-making and review processes.
Understanding Market Outlooks: We analyze how power markets, technologies, and value pools are evolving, providing insights to inform portfolio planning, asset valuation, and investment decisions.
Building an Agile Utility: Our approach helps clients make decisions in days instead of months, doubles value-added work time, spreads innovation across the organization, and increases frontline productivity by up to 25 percent.
Assessing Regulatory Scenarios Based on Value at Stake: We assist clients in defining national energy strategies, understanding market reforms, and making their businesses more resilient to regulatory change.
Improving Trading and Energy Management: NDB Holding Group optimizes commercial activities and organizational structures, leveraging advanced analytics to enhance risk-return profiles and build capabilities that benefit both customers and the business.
Examples of our work
Evaluating Power-Plant Assets Before Privatization
Identifying Strategic Targets
Optimizing a Gas Portfolio
Integrating Trading Activities
Rethinking Portfolio Management
Modeling Global Electricity Markets
FEATURED CAPABILITIES
Proprietary Tools and Solutions for Energy Insights
To provide clients with field-tested solutions and the best available thinking, NDB Holding Group invests in developing advanced tools and methodologies, including:
State-of-the-Art Power-Market Models: Deliver granular assessments of supply and demand trends and evolving market structures across regions from Europe to North America and countries from Australia to Japan. Complementary Energy Insights models further enhance analysis.
Regulatory and External-Affairs Diagnostic: A web-based benchmarking tool that helps clients assess and monitor capabilities for managing external affairs and engaging stakeholders on regulatory issues.
Advanced-Analytics Energy-Trading Tool: Enables clients to compare historic portfolio management against optimal dispatch, identify value losses, and develop forward-looking portfolio management tools.
Commercial Performance Survey: Allows clients to benchmark energy-trading performance in both front-office and back-office support functions.
Proprietary TETRIS Tool: Supports investor-owned North American utilities in maximizing value for themselves and their ratepayers by identifying capital opportunities and assessing regulatory impact.
E-Mobility Ecosystem of the Future Tool: Defines the layers and elements of emerging industry ecosystems, identifying core battlegrounds and potential competitive dynamics.
Multiclient Venture-Capital Effort: Supports venture capital funds investing in European energy-related start-ups.
Grid of the Future Analysis: Assesses technology disruptions, anticipates regulatory evolution, identifies growth opportunities through M&A and adjacencies, plans lean operations, and evaluates platform-based business models.
