Our policy and planning team track the evolving energy landscape so clients can communicate their value proposition to investors, customers, and regulators alike. We come in where you need us and can work with you to develop rate filing strategies, and provide interrogatory and expert witness support at technical hearings. We have been developing data-driven, customer-focused, and defensible reports, as well as investment plans and analyses to support regulatory requirements, for over 15 years.
Our certified asset management assessors (CAMA) work with our engineers, economists, and statisticians to deliver robust, accurate, and justifiable asset management strategies and the asset management plans that underpin the strategy and allow our customers to justify and optimally develop their investment plans.
Our team of experts also provide audit, advisory and assurance services to our clients. These services ensure our clients are delivering what their customers want, using the latest industry practices, as well as meeting any regulatory or investor related objectives.
Some of the key services the Policy & Planning team offer are:
200+ Asset Management Plans Completed and Rate Filing plans to support utilities in their regulatory proceedings
50+ Distribution System Plans to support utilities in their regulatory reporting procedures
Supported utilities in receiving approval for over $100million of investments across Canada
Our team of seasoned policy and regulation experts has the finger on the pulse on the latest energy policies and regulations. We provide our clients with the latest policy and regulatory insights and what it means for them. We act as your strategic consultant and support you in developing an overarching regulatory strategy that will guide you through regulatory processes, and present key insights for evidence.
We design and facilitate extensive customer engagement programs helping customers identify their customer needs. Using the outputs of the customer engagement program, we help utilities develop a framework to use this information within their planning process to inform their investment plans.
Our team of SME's along with our regulatory professionals provide support to our clients in the form of third-party witness reports, prudency reviews, peer benchmarking which are used to support utility rate applications and additional non-regulatory funding applications.
Our team support utilities in their rate filing applications, developing generation, transmission, and distribution system plans that stand up to regulatory scrutiny. Our team is highly trained in building effective long and short-term capital expenditure plans, maintenance investment plans, and creating business plans and business cases that stand up to regulatory and investor scrutiny. Our plans are designed to be prudent, cost-effective, customer-focused, and closely aligned with ever-evolving regulatory and policy requirements. Ultimately as the energy transition takes place worldwide, we want to support clients (and their countries) in their net-zero ambitions.
Our team of trained auditors, provide our clients with third-party audit and advisory services on:
We build Asset Strategies, Policies and Asset Management Plans for our clients that follow the ISO55000 guidelines. Using client data and our own expert opinion we develop Asset Management Plans that aim to provide:
Our team of trained auditors, provide our clients with third-party audit and advisory services on:
Our team helps utilities develop practical utility strategies that enable them to deliver on the needs of their customers and investors, as well as meet any regulatory requirements. We provide strategic advice to our clients on their strategies, and plans, providing insoght and recommendations that enable our clients to both adapt their strategies and plans to meet the evolving energy landscape as well as deliver them in a practical and efficient way.
Meet the team of industry veterans and passionate young minds that make METSCO’s out-of-the-box thinking possible.
