Tackling the ‘trilemma’: balancing cost, climate change and dependable supplies
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Deloitte’s Energy, Infrastructure and Utilities practice offers a depth, breadth and quality of expertise that few professional services firms or consultancies can match. Our group provides comprehensive, integrated solutions which address the range of challenges facing energy companies as they adapt to changing regulatory environments, to political, economic, and market pressure, and to technological development. Our in-depth expertise in this dynamic sector serves as an indispensable resource for a significant proportion of the world’s energy companies. We have designed our practice to conform to this rapidly changing sector’s unique needs; to that end, we offer a complete range of services designed to provide the energy industry with unparalleled service, innovation and critical thinking.
Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, operates at the heart of the broadcast, satellite and mobile communicationsmarkets. The company is at the forefront of network solutions and services in the digital world. Arqiva provides much of the infrastructure behind television, radio, satellite and wireless communications in the UK and has a significant presence in Ireland, mainland Europe and the USA. Customers include major broadcasters such as the BBC, ITV, BSkyB and the independent radio groups, major telco providers including the UK's five mobile network operators, and the emergency services.
Capgemini helps utilities companies transform their customer service and operational efficiency. Current engagements include smart technology deployments for many of the world’s largest utilities companies; 1.5m meters have been deployed to date and 13m more are in progress. With around 7,500 of our 90,000 staff active in this sector, Gartner last year ranked us #1 consulting services provider to utilities in Europe. We are present in 30+ countries; our 2008 global revenues were €8.7bn.
Cognizant is a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services.With more than 40global delivery centres and over 60,000 employees, we combine a unique onsite/ offshore delivery model with a distinct culture of customer satisfaction.
At Cognizant we have one single-minded passion: dedicating our global resources, industry intelligence and systems expertise to working with our clients to make their businesses stronger. We harness talent from across the globe to build deep, sustainable, long term relationships that foster continuous operational improvements and better bottom line results for our clients.
DHL provides a comprehensive supply chain management service; it is the biggest in the world with a turnover of 66 billion euros. DHL Supply Chain provides tailormade contract and industry-specific solutions from consulting to supply chain design, from storage and sales logistics to production and order management.
Solutions are customised to meet the needs of specialist industry sectors. DHL can advise on, manage or completely take on through an outsourcing arrangement, any part or all of the supply chain management. It can help deliver significant, real, cost reductions, improved serviceability of assets throughout the asset lifecycle and importantly, it can provide the data to demonstrate to key stakeholders that the targets it has been set have all been met.
ELEXON Ltd is the Balancing and Settlement Code Company for Great Britain. We deliver services that are critical to the successful operation of Great Britain’s electricity trading operations by procuring, operating and managing the balancing and imbalance settlement systems, processes and services. Our work directly affects the operations of nearly 200 companies that participate in the market and which supply over 28 million customers.
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IBM is a global business and technology leader, innovating in research and development to shape the future of society at large. In the UK, IBM are focused on helping governments, businesses, thinkers and doers build a more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent planet. Talk to IBM about our Smarter Energy solutions today.
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Informatica Corporation provides data integration software and services that empower your organization to access, integrate, and trust all its information assets, giving your organization a competitive advantage in today’s global information economy. As the independent data integration leader, Informatica has a proven track record of success helping the world’s leading companies leverage all their information assets to grow revenues, improve profitability, and increase customer loyalty. That is why Informatica is known as the data integration company.
Landis+Gyr helps utilities manage energy better. As the largest global player in energy management, our solutions empower utilities and consumers to improve energy efficiency, reduce energy costs and contribute to the sustainable use of resources.
Our vision is for energy production and use to work in harmony with a sustainable environment. Through continuous development and innovation, our solutions make this happen.
SEAMS provide Asset Investment Planning solutions to water, energy and utilities companies to help these capital intensive organisations decide how much to spend, on which asset and at what point in time. For more information on how SEAMS can provide you with creative solutions in asset investment planning visit our website.
Siemens, the leading global engineering and technology services company, provides innovative solutions to help tackle the world’s major challenges, across the key sectors of Energy, Industry and Healthcare.
Siemens has been active in the UK since 1863 and now has offices and factories throughout the country, with its UK headquarters in Frimley, Surrey. The company’s global headquarters is in Munich, Germany.
Silver Spring Networks is a leading Smart Grid solutions provider that enables utilities to achieve operational efficiencies, reduce carbon emissions and empower their customers with new ways to monitor and manage their energy consumption. Silver Spring provides the hardware, software and services that allow utilities to deploy and run unlimited advanced applications, including Smart Metering, Demand Response, Distribution Automation and Distributed Generation, over a single, unified network. Silver Spring Smart Energy Platform is based on open, Internet Protocol (IP) standards, allowing continuous, two-way communication between the utility and every device on the grid. Silver Spring has successful deployments with leading utilities in the US and abroad, including Florida Power & Light, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pepco Holdings, Inc., Jemena Electricity Networks Limited and United Energy Distribution, among others. In 2008, the World Economic Forum honored Silver Spring Networks as a Technology Pioneer.
Redpoint Energy is a European energy consultancy, specialising in delivering market and risk analysis to support decision making for energy companies, investors and policy makers. Our highly experienced consultancy team provides advice on asset investment, trading and risk management, strategy formation, and policy and regulation.
We combine a deep understanding of the European energy sector together with a pragmatic and robust approach to modelling markets and assets to provide detailed insights into the factors behind key strategic decisions. Recent work for policy makers and investors has focused on the analysis of high levels of intermittent renewable generation on investment, risk and price behaviour.
Glue Reply is UK’s leading consulting services organisation focused exclusively on optimising IT/Business alignment and minimising the cost of business and IT technology change. Our core proposition is to help organisations maximise the value from their change and technology investments by helping them define, design, implement and resource best practice:
Logica is an IT and business services company, operating in the utilities sector, which delivers a range of services from business consulting and systems integration, to IT and business process outsourcing services. Logica is ranked as the UK’s number one IT services provider for utilities by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) .
Software AG is the world’s largest independent provider of Business Infrastructure Software. Our 4,000 global enterprise customers achieve business results faster by modernizing, integrating and automating their IT systems and processes. As a result, they rapidly build measurable business value and meet changing business demands. Based on our solutions, organizations are able to liberate and govern their data, systems, applications, processes and services – achieving new levels of business flexibility.
Our leading product portfolio includes solutions for high performance data management, developing and modernizing applications, enabling service-oriented architecture, and improving business processes. By combining our technology with industry expertise and best practices experience, our customers improve and differentiate their businesses – faster.
Software AG has 40 years of global IT experience and over 3,500 employees serving customers in 70 countries.
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AEP is the leading trade association for the UK's electricity producers. The Association represent companies that generate the electricity upon which the country depends. We keep members informed about developments within the sector and help increase Government and regulators' understanding of the needs of industry participants.
Envirotech & Clean Energy Investor is a monthly journal for investors, innovators and deal-makers in the global cleantech, water, waste, recycling and renewable energy sectors.
We provide essential news, views and analysis for professionals who need to know about investment activity and opportunities and industry developments. We look to cover all significant deals across the world in venture, private equity, project finance, IPOs and M&A. We identify which deals are being done, who is doing them and what is in the pipeline. In addition we provide in-depth features, focused on the investment and finance issues that matter, and profiles on the leading companies and individuals who are shaping the global industry.
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