Specialist advice.
Practical outcomes.

Regulation sets the boundaries of what a business can charge, build, sell and promise. A clear regulatory strategy turns that boundary from a constraint into a position: what to argue for, where to argue it, and what to concede early.

• Regulatory positioning and strategy development, from board level down
• Engagement with Ofgem, government departments and industry bodies
• Consultation responses, policy papers and board papers
• Stakeholder mapping and engagement planning
• Design and delivery of thought-leadership work

Network businesses live or die by their price control. Suppliers and developers live or die by the charges they inherit from it. Value moves where the two meet — and that is rarely where either side expects.

• RIIO price control strategy, business plans and consultation responses
• IDNO and IGT regulatory frameworks, including connection and charging processes
• Network charging methodology changes and their commercial impact
• Settlement reform, including Market-wide Half-Hourly Settlement readiness
• Regulatory input to business planning, budgets and forecasting

The BSC, SEC, REC and DCUSA are not administrative furniture. A modification can create a market, close one, or shift cost between parties — and the argument has to be made differently at each stage, from working group to appeal.

• Modification development, impact assessment and drafting support
• Working group representation and cross-industry negotiation
• Code governance design and change process improvement
• Advice on appeal routes and decision-making frameworks
• Independent review of code change decisions and their effects

A commercial proposition that ignores the licence conditions is a liability waiting to be discovered. The work runs alongside commercial, legal and account teams to make sure what is being sold is what the rules allow — and to find the flexibility inside the rules that others miss.

• Market entry assessment and proposition design for suppliers and developers
• Commercial terms aligned to regulatory obligations and licence conditions
• Advisory support on flexibility, balancing and ancillary service participation
• Battery storage and demand-side projects: commercial, delivery and regulatory input
• Contract review from a regulatory-risk perspective

Most compliance failures are not moral failures; they are mapping failures. If nobody has connected a licence condition to an owner, a control and a piece of evidence, it is not being managed. The work is building that connective tissue.

• Licence and code obligations registers: obligation, owner, control, evidence
• Compliance assurance frameworks and three-lines-of-defence design
• Board and audit committee reporting on regulatory risk
• Regulatory readiness for new obligations and licence changes
• Baseline compliance reviews across multiple licence-holding entities

Investors, lenders and boards need to know whether a regulatory position is as solid as it looks. That means reading the licence, the code and the consultation history — not just the management summary.

• Regulatory and commercial due diligence for acquisitions and investments
• Review of regulatory assumptions in business plans and financial models
• Independent assessment of regulatory risk and exposure
• Expert review of positions, papers and submissions before they go out
• Support on regulatory aspects of disputes and appeals