We help clients across the regulated sectors deal with the challenges and the opportunities of economic regulation. We help regulators to develop innovative policy, to challenge companies’ business plans, and to develop forecasts and financial models. And we help regulated companies, their customers and their stakeholders to anticipate, influence and challenge regulatory settlements.
We have extensive expertise across the regulated sectors, including:We can help you answer important questions, including: if you are conducting a price review, if you are looking to assess the impact of technological change to the sector, if you need to incentivise companies to provide better outcomes for consumers or if you are looking to estimate the cost of capital of the sector.
We can help you answer important questions, including: if you want to create a compelling business plan, if you want to understand the implications of regulatory change, or if you want to challenge the regulator’s decision.
How do you encourage whole-system efficiency, while protecting the commercial interest of the infrastructure manager, for a new piece of rail infrastructure? We helped our client and the ORR design and set the level of access charges, and designed and implemented a performance regime.
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PwC was appointed as Ofwat’s delivery partner to support them in the 2019 Price Review (PR19). We provided integrated support to Ofwat across all areas including cost efficiency, outcomes, risk and return, past delivery, affordability and vulnerability and resilience.
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We helped a Gas Distribution Network to make an appeal to the CMA. Using our expertise in economic regulation and financial economics, we supported our client as expert witnesses.
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When the regulator introduces a new broadband access product, how do you respond? We supported a Turkish telecommunications company review their pricing model and the efficiency characteristics of the new broadband access product.
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