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... economic consultants specialising in electricity, gas, renewables, carbon and water with a growing capability in infrastructure and transport. |
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About IPA IPA are economic consultants specialising in Infrastructure: Electricity, Gas, Renewables, Carbon, Water and Transport. We provide services in pricing and markets, trading and risk, regulation, project economics, financing and PSP across these sectors. With extensive international experience in over 60 countries, IPA is recognised as one of Europe’s leading specialised practices for infrastructure economics. Our expertise comprises of creating, implementing and strengthening energy markets, in order to increase competition, raise economic efficiency, attract private sector capital, foster renewables and promote emissions reduction. Founded in 1989, first as a subsidiary of London Economics under the name of LE Energy, then as Ian Pope Associates, IPA now has offices in Edinburgh, London, Abu Dhabi, Melbourne, and Shanghai with new ones opening up in Beijing (Autumn 2008) and Johannesburg (2009). Since 2005, IPA has been part of the DAR Group (www.dargroup.com) - one of the world’s top 15 international network groups of professional services that also includes the Penspen Group (www.penspen.com) and T.Y. Lin International (www.tylin.com). The IPA Team To meet our clients’ needs, our team is multi-disciplinary with strong expertise in law, economics, finance and regulation – both economic and technical regulation. Our teams are highly qualified; most have first class degrees, post-graduate qualifications or both. Senior staff have all had practical involvement in industry reform as senior managers in major utilities or as regulators and policy-makers prior to joining IPA. Through world-wide assignments and projects with IPA, their experience is constantly reinforced, ensuring that their knowledge and skills are at the leading edge. This powerful combination of technical knowledge and commercial experience enables IPA to deliver practical advice and workable solutions to our clients. Capability in Electricity and Gas We work in: -
Investment, Market Entry and Operation Capability in Renewables We work in: -
Feasibility and Due Diligence Capability in Emissions and Climate Change We work in: -
Policy Development and Regulation Capability in Water and Waste Water We work in: -
Sector Restructuring and Water Utility Commercialisation Specialist Services - Energy Market Modelling IPA maintains an extensive suite of models and databases of the UK, European and International energy markets. These models are used to analyse and support investment decisions, to design and test market structures, to evaluate the bulk purchase of electricity and hedging of electricity price risk, for short and long term price forecasting, and for optimising the operation of individual or groups of thermal, hydro or mixed power stations. The Company remains at the forefront of modelling capability in the European market. Specialist Services – Regulatory Support IPA provides support to industry operators and potential investors in compliance, consultation responses and investment appraisal.
Specialist Services - Training Courses Specialist
Services - Benchmarking Experience We have worked extensively internationally with projects completed in more than 60 countries around the globe. IPA’s geographical experience includes: Europe
(UK, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Greece, Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, Guernsey,
Cyprus, Belgium, Jersey), Award Winning IPA Recent Awards Include -
British Consultant of the Year 2005 Find out more about our awards here. |