The services provided relate to the economic and technical aspects of electricity and gas markets as applied to reform, policy development, economic analysis and evaluation, market systems specification and audit, training, strategy development and risk assessment.

Examples of work undertaken include development of wholesale market rules, forward price modelling and projections, assessing the economics of proposed new generation and transmission assets, advice in M&A work, evaluating trading policies, market dispatch and pricing systems audit, broad energy sector modelling, and general advice to regulators and government.

IES Advisory Services meets the economic and technical challenges of competitive energy markets through a set of skills that include economics, finance, policy development, engineering, mathematics, optimisation, and advanced modelling. Quantitative work undertaken is also supported by the comprehensive analysis and modelling tools developed by IES.

IES consultants also bring extensive experience to assignments, having held senior positions in utilities, led and participated extensively in energy market reform projects and undertaken a vast range of electricity market assignments in generation, retail and transmission. IES Advisory Services also brings extensive experience in the development of energy policy models, as evidenced by the recent work in energy policy development studies in many ASEAN countries.

Within Australia, clients include many of the participants in the National Electricity Market, state and national regulators and market operator, investment banks and governments. IES Advisory Services also provides consulting services to clients outside Australia, most recently to clients in many of the ASEAN countries and also in Singapore and Ireland.

IES Advisory Services is a division of Intelligent Energy Systems—an Australian company trading since 1983.