Competitive Energy Consulting, Inc (CECi) is a dynamic, results-focused international energy development and management consulting firm with a long history of helping clients achieve genuine organizational success.  CECi prides itself on being a client-driven, excellence-oriented firm dedicated to achieving success by innovating market-leading solutions and processes that focus on replicable business practices.  Since we view our clients as long-term strategic partners, CECi is committed to provide our clients with solutions that, not only solve their complex problems, but also mitigate risk and unnecessary exposure.  CECi’s principals are based on technical excellence, quality of product, customer value, and integrity.  Therefore, we pride ourselves in being one of the only consulting firms that can provide comprehensive energy services, for gas, power or alternative solutions, based on real-world experiences, rather than only academic theory.

CECi partners are uniquely experienced having over thirty-five years, in both Regulated and Un-regulated environments, with hands-on experience in commercial operation, origination, marketing, and valuation; market regulation; and infrastructure development and sustainable solutions.  CECi understands and thrives on the competitive commercial operation within complex market environments.  We know that this experience in power, natural gas and alternative energy solutions allows us to appropriately value, market, and find solutions to multifaceted challenges in today’s dynamic energy industry.

Areas of Expertise

Commercial

•Relationships – wide-breadth of energy contacts facilitates in executing deals at optimal value for clients

•Valuation – appropriately value power and natural gas assets with knowledge of genuine market pricing

•Origination – develop, design, and execute long-dated forward commercial asset-based transactions

•Asset Optimization – annual, seasonal, monthly, and daily financial and physical asset operation

•Risk management – physical and financial hedging of operational/performance risk

•Accounting – design of effective and efficient business processes

•Financial Planning – annual, seasonal, monthly, and daily credit and cash flow management

•Fuel management – physical and financial acquisition, transport, storage, and price management

•Comprehensive Power & Gas services – from “bid” to “bill” total solutions

Regulatory

•Expert Witness – expert testimony relating to energy policy, market design/operation, regulatory proceedings, plant discussions, and environmental reviews

•Market Design – development assistance on the framework of energy markets; Regulated and Un-regulated

•Policy & Procedures - technical assistance in drafting practical rules and processes

•Technical Advice – identify ramifications of various policy positions on physical and financial market operations

•Strategy Development – assist in process design/management to obtain an optimal outcome

•Marketing – communicate and educate policy positions to key constituents

Infrastructure

•Asset Development - project conceptualization, land acquisition, plant-sitting & permitting

•Technical analysis – modeling of physical transmission and plant operations

•EPC management – supervision of EPC contract

•Organizational Development – oversight of management structure design, organizational procedure development, office setup, and operational staffing

•Operations Management – wholesale/retail market Operations Center’s

•Financing development – project and construction financial management

Renewable Energy

•Solar – partnerships with provides of both photovoltaic and solar thermal energy solutions for commercial and residential applications

•Geothermal - ground source heating and cooling solution; utilizing best applicable technology for your specific situation; either advanced DX and conventional geothermal exchange

•Wind – providers of services for both terrestrial and off shore commercial wind projects

Energy Efficiency

•Audits – capabilities to provide comprehensive energy efficiency audits & facility assessments for residential, commercial and industrial businesses

•Program Management – has provide comprehensive services to assist states and utilities to develop, implement and manage advanced energy efficiency programs in achieving real world sustainable energy savings

•Measurement & Verification (M&V) - create and implement mechanisms for identifying energy savings opportunities, implementing monitoring or verification of actual savings.

•Utility/Government program coordinator – history of working closely with electric and gas utilities in order to supplement and strengthen their programs to incentivize increase customer participation