Independent strategic perspective is invaluable to senior decision makers responsible for shaping corporate direction and delivering shareholder value. Leveraging our integrated energy and environmental market knowledge, we work with our clients to create corporate value through clear independent perspective, strategic advice, and rigorous financial planning and benchmarking.

Anchored by a comprehensive strategy simulation model, we rigorously evaluate the financial implications of competing investment decisions.

Through a highly structured and quantifiable approach to strategic planning, we are able to document market and business case assumptions using highly functional financial and market models. This quantitative framework allows us to compare strategic path results via the development of distinct value, growth, credit rating, and comparative performance metrics in our evaluation of alternative strategic paths. From this interactive process, our clients can confidently define business plan direction and financial impacts.

Pace Global leads the way in structured commodity risk mitigation programs that bring clarity to managers about their exposures and how to contain market uncertainty within acceptable limits. With extensive experience and time-tested tools and systems, Pace Global brings greater rigor and lucidity to the often paralyzing effect that market volatility has on utilities and energy-intensive industrials. Our comprehensive solution suite dramatically improves risk mitigation and includes:

• State-of-the-art risk quantification
• Hedge simulation
• Policy and procedures development
• Ongoing monitoring and advisory

Our ongoing and systematic risk advisory service equips clients to understand risk elements and potential price movements in order to preemptively take measures to insulate corporate earnings or rate impacts from acute volatility. We work with our clients to establish sustainable Hedging Decision Protocols (HDPs) that ensure appropriate responses to risk tolerances. These protocols provide continuous quantification of risk, Value-at-Risk (VaR) for all commodity and emissions positions, sound hedging options, and structured recommendations to ensure your corporate objectives are met without unexpected surprises.

Extensive knowledge of fuel and power markets is the basis for our comprehensive market assessments and due diligence services that enable our clients to make informed business investment decisions. Our offering is strengthened by:

• Vast experience in contract negotiation, deal structuring, and expert testimony throughout all areas of the energy value chain.
• Extensive quantitative analysis and risk assessments related to natural gas, coal, petroleum, and electric power.
• All-encompassing assessments of supply and demand dynamics on the relevant market and specific assets within the market complimented with a global understanding of market drivers.
• Comprehensive projections derived from an integrated and strategic perspective of price behavior and related supply and demand fundamentals.

As part of our energy market analysis service, we offer Pace’s MarketLink^SM analytical system. MarketLink^SM provides a framework for quantifying various potential forward-looking “states of the world” regarding the economy, energy demand, supply, prices, electric power consumption, generation mix, LNG trade, and implicit carbon costs in a consistent manner.

Environmental issues have accelerated into energy economics creating unprecedented challenges for business. The evolving patchwork of state and federal regulatory mandates as well as voluntary best practices regarding carbon and renewable energy is having an increasing impact on entities in every segment of the energy value chain.

Our multidisciplinary experts specialize in bringing clarity to the deepening relationship between energy and environmental markets. Our carbon and renewable energy market veterans have the necessary combination of strategic, policy, regulatory, market, technical, and tactical capabilities to maintain and grow value throughout the “greening” of the energy economy. In this sense, we are uniquely qualified to assist our clients in the development and commercial execution of integrated energy and environmental strategies.

Move your portfolio and your projects forward with our comprehensive solutions related to the following:

• Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) Compliance, IRP Integration, Regulatory Positioning, Cost Recovery and Pass-through
• REC Origination and Procurements, REC Market Modeling and Forecasting, Renewable Generation Development, REPA Transaction Support and Due Diligence
• Carbon Pre-compliance Planning and Risk Profiling, Regulatory Positioning and Market Design, IRP Integration, Pre-compliance Offset Investments, ERPA Transaction Support, Structuring and Due Diligence

From conceptual design and feasibility evaluation through financial structuring of a new energy asset, Pace Global offers all-encompassing capabilities in project development, energy & environmental markets, engineering, and commercial transactions. Our team can lead or support any energy asset development project, from conventional power to industrial cogeneration, distributed generation, renewable fuel and power technologies. We use our detailed technical, commercial, and operational knowledge to support all aspects of development:

• Site and technology selection
• Conceptual design
• Performance simulation and optimization
• Permitting
• Strategic planning – fuel, power, and environmental
• Structuring

We bridge our experience in asset assessment and development with in-depth pro-forma cost considerations for all capital, equipment, O&M, fuel, and compliance requirements. Our knowledge of transactions and market participants joined with our technical competencies provide successful commercial realities.

In total, our integrated approach provides timely and sound results for energy asset review to inform internal management evaluation, due diligence, optimization, and/or investment decisions.

Whether addressing a targeted issue or supporting a more complex, multi-faceted case, Pace Global can deliver an efficient, comprehensive solution. Our vast experience in natural gas, oil, coal, electricity, environmental markets, finance, engineering, power plants, pipelines, tariffs, and risk management provides a holistic approach to issues that few firms can deliver.

We provide seasoned consulting and testifying experts who simplify complex issues for presentation to boards, understand local and utility commission concerns, and require minimal preparation by litigators. Each of our experts brings years of experience in preparing and defending complex analysis of markets, asset valuations, technical assessments, contracting clauses, and best commercial and related industry practices. Our experts, who are routinely leveraged by litigators and regulatory specialists, have a proven commitment to the highest quality work and are supported by Pace Global's area specialists with extensive domestic and international experience across all aspects of the energy sector.

To reduce the impact of market uncertainty on your generation portfolio, you need to first understand the risks. Our unique Risk Integrated Resource Planning (RIRP) approach quantifies all relevant risk and addresses the full spectrum of possible outcomes. The simultaneous evaluation of portfolios is performed against all of your corporate objectives in a structured manner such that risks can be understood, measured, and managed.

Our integrated resource planning process uses state-of-the-art analytics to help clients make portfolio decisions under uncertainty that will work within your planning framework. Our process has proven credible before regulatory commissions, city councils, and diverse stakeholder groups so you can rest assured your decisions will be backed by insightful analysis. Our cutting-edge models have been relied upon by utilities across the country, and have evolved over the past decade to appropriately address the nuances of emergent issues.

As the rate of technical innovation accelerates in response to the global demand for renewable energy sources, Pace Global is uniquely positioned to assist clients in evaluating projects as current or prospective consumers, producers, or investors in renewable energy resources. From solar, wind, geothermal, and hydro-electric generation to highly efficient cogeneration technologies, we deliver strategic, economic, and commercial solutions that allow clients to utilize clean energy resources to meet future challenges. We support every stage of your project scope from feasibility to development to management services.

Pace Global has actively assisted in the development of over 60,000 MW of generation capacity in the last ten years. During that time we have supported over $50 billion in successful power and fuel transactions and due diligence projects.

Pace Global is the premier energy market and valuation advisory firm with renowned energy market, project, and company analysis capabilities. We employ state-of-the-art and innovative modeling and evaluation techniques for the energy industry. Our expertise is applied to energy infrastructure projects, companies, and the evaluation of energy commodity markets to benefit investment strategies and specific investment opportunities. We offer integrated knowledge and market insight, applied to:

• Market and industry financial, structural, regulatory, and fundamental analysis
• Power, fuel, and market modeling
• Energy and enterprise risk management
• Technology performance and commercial management
• Strategy design, financial screening, and valuation analysis