Transmission & Distribution
Driving Excellence in Electric and Gas Networks
NDB Holding Group helps electric- and gas-network owners and operators achieve world-class performance in operations and capital expenditure, create value from emerging technologies, and meet the growing demand for reliable and affordable energy.
Meeting Global Network Challenges
Over the next 20 years, emerging countries will need to expand their power networks rapidly to serve growing populations. At the same time, developed economies must upgrade aging infrastructure, implement smart grids, and respond to increasing regulatory, customer, and technological pressures.
Investing for the Future
To meet rising demand, the world’s transmission and distribution lines will need to expand by more than a third, reaching an estimated 94 million kilometers by 2035. Achieving this will require annual investments exceeding $310 billion, highlighting the need for strategic planning, operational excellence, and innovative solutions.
What We Do
Strategic and Operational Support for Utilities
NDB Holding Group helps gas and electric utilities develop and execute critical strategic decisions, from prioritizing asset-management investments to applying advanced digital and analytics solutions to energy delivery. We also advise utility-service providers and technology manufacturers on strategy, support financial investors through evaluations and due diligence, and assist public-sector institutions and their partners with policy design.
Developing Safe, Reliable, and Affordable Frontline Operations
Using proprietary tools and lean methods, we help clients reduce operating expenditures while enhancing safety, reliability, and customer service. Grid operators can capture savings of 10 to 25 percent in frontline operations, engineering planning, work scheduling, and supply-chain optimization.
Realizing Digitally Enabled Effectiveness and Efficiency
We assist clients in developing and implementing cutting-edge digital and analytics tools to transform consumer and supplier journeys, enable distributed workforce management, automate manual processes, improve maintenance and inspection planning, and provide real-time outage tracking and incident reporting.
Leading Innovation and the Grid of the Future
NDB Holding Group helps operators manage evolving layers of devices and services in grid networks, transitioning from one-way to variable two-way electricity flow. This requires scenario-based planning, real-time data management, and cyberrisk mitigation to optimize performance.
Achieving Continuous Improvement Through Capability Building
We work with clients to develop training programs and academies that nurture high-performing leaders and embed best practices across the organization, ensuring sustained improvements and long-term operational excellence.
Examples of our work
Implementing a Digital Transformation
ndbholdinggroup partnered with a leading US utility on a comprehensive capital transformation initiative that unlocked $30 million in the first year and identified opportunities to release an additional $300 million annually for long-term reinvestment.
Improving Operations at a Southeast Asia State Enterprise
ndbholdinggroup helped a major regulated power and gas utility enhance the efficiency of its $1 billion annual transmission capital portfolio, achieving near-term savings of 6 percent and sustaining 12 to 15 percent savings across more than 2,000 projects.
Optimizing Asset Management at a European Utility
ndbholdinggroup supported a utility managing a seven-year, $50 billion investment program, achieving $1 billion in savings on a $10 billion project bundle through scope optimization and supplier contract renegotiation.
Building a Digital, Agile Design Hub
ndbholdinggroup partnered with a leading US utility on a comprehensive capital transformation initiative that unlocked $30 million in the first year and identified opportunities to release an additional $300 million annually for long-term reinvestment.
Creating a Disruption Strategy for an Australian Energy Grid Operator
ndbholdinggroup helped a major regulated power and gas utility enhance the efficiency of its $1 billion annual transmission capital portfolio, achieving near-term savings of 6 percent and sustaining 12 to 15 percent savings across more than 2,000 projects.
Transforming a Utility’s Cost Structure
ndbholdinggroup supported a utility managing a seven-year, $50 billion investment program, achieving $1 billion in savings on a $10 billion project bundle through scope optimization and supplier contract renegotiation.
FEATURED CAPABILITIES
Proprietary Tools for Transmission and Distribution Performance
NDB Holding Group has developed a suite of proprietary tools to help clients assess performance, identify gaps, and drive improvement:
Benchmarking Tools for Distribution: Leveraging data from more than 45 companies, these tools provide insights into optimizing capital and operating expenditures and inform where outsourcing strategies can be most effective.
Utilityx: Our advanced-analytics platform helps electric-power utilities enhance network performance and reduce costs through predictive asset management.
TETRIS for Regulatory and Financial Modeling: This tool enables investor-owned North American utilities to maximize value by identifying capital opportunities in traditional grid assets, grid modernization, and unregulated assets; forecasting load loss and grid defection; assessing customer affordability; and evaluating earnings impacts under different regulatory scenarios.
Lean Frontline Operations Playbooks: Combining lean management with digital operations, these playbooks drive improvement across all key areas of transmission and distribution operations and include tailored analyses, idea registers, and a wide array of function-specific case examples.
