Utilities

ICG provides Market Research and Consulting services in Utilities since the company’s establishing in 1998.

We have partner relations with governmental agencies responsible for energy market regulation and standards/safety, several large state-run and private energy producers, suppliers of energy equipment, energy distributors, industry unions and associations, etc. We have abilities to make interviews in local languages, to access governmental and industry sources (such as statistic databases, Custom offices’ import and export records, license and certification registers, best-practice-case databases, etc.)

Currently we provide the following services in utility markets worldwide:

Market Research

We provide a wide variety of information, including (but not limiting with):

  • Power generation
    • Thermal
    • Nuclear
    • Hydropower
    • Wind
    • Geothermal
    • Solar 
    • Other alternative sources
  • Power distribution
    • Nationwide electric grids
    • Regional and municipal electric grids
    • Municipal heat networks
  • Fuels
    • Natural gas
    • Oil
    • Coal
    • Nuclear
    • Hydropower
    • Solar
    • Wind
    • Other alternative sources
  • Power market
    • Energy demand
    • Energy production
    • Lack/surplus of energy – energy export/import
    • Market volume/value
    • Segmentation (by power plant type - i.e. thermal, hydro, nuclear; by fuel type; etc.)
    • Market organization - including power industry reforming
    • Power market regulation, including tariffs
  • Utilities
    • Water supply
    • Sewage
    • Gas in-house supply
    • Waste utilization
  • Forecast scenarios for power sector development
    • Market volume/value forecasts (realistic, optimistic and pessimistic scenarios)
    • Energy demand
    • Energy production
    • Lack/surplus of energy – energy export/import perspectives
    • Investment demand and sources
    • Changes in regulation
    • Changes in customer base and by-industry consumption
  • Customer base (individual consumers; corporate customers; government as customer; regional authorities as customers; export)
  • Players (nationwide power holdings; regional power operators; regional distribution companies; grid operators, etc.)
  • Market barriers and risks (legislative, corruption, technological requirements/standards, etc.)
  • Investment programs/plans for equipment renovation/replacement or new asset construction at the side of the largest players
  • Technical issues for equipment (national standards; certification; technological conformity of equipment confirmation; custom procedures, including import tax level; benefits of local production or assembly vs. importation)

We did more than 450 successful research, survey and consulting projects in utilities worldwide; some most recent cases are listed below (in alphabetic order):

  • Coal supply to power plants in Poland
  • Coal supply to power plants in Russia
  • Corporate power plants in Eastern Ukraine
  • Corporate power plants in Northwestern Russia
  • Corporate power plants in Urals
  • Energy market in Algeria
  • Energy market in Angola
  • Energy market in Azerbaijan
  • Energy market in Central Russia
  • Energy market in Cuba
  • Energy market in Egypt
  • Energy market in Hungary
  • Energy market in Irkutsk region
  • Energy market in Kazakhstan
  • Energy market in Leningrad region
  • Energy market in Malaysia
  • Energy market in Morocco
  • Energy market in Moscow City
  • Energy market in Nicaragua
  • Energy market in Nizhny Novgorod region
  • Energy market in Poland
  • Energy market in SAR
  • Energy market in Slovakia
  • Energy market in Sverdlovsk region
  • Energy market in Turkey
  • Energy market in Turkmenistan
  • Energy market in Tyumen region
  • Energy market in Uzbekistan
  • Energy market in Venezuela
  • Hydropower market in Eastern Siberia
  • Nationwide electric grid in Ukraine
  • Nationwide electric grids in Caucasus states
  • Nuclear power market in Ukraine
  • Power plant automation market in Poland
  • Power plant automation market in Russia
  • Power plant construction market in CIS
  • Power turbine market in Russia

Company Study

In addition to common information (company’s financials, organization, management, etc.) we provide industry-specific intelligence on utility companies, such as:

  • Generating facilities, their capacity and utilization
  • Transmission lines
  • Production and supply in TEF (tons of equivalent fuel)
  • Use of alternative energy
  • Environmental issues
  • Safety, etc.