We help private and public clients meet the demands of the present and the future in the climate, energy, natural resources, and critical raw materials, space by providing rigorous economic modelling and deep regulatory insight. This enables our clients to make well-informed, robust decisions in an environment characterised by rapidly changing business needs and regulatory frameworks.
We use cutting-edge economic modelling to evaluate how regulations, policies, and investments shape real-world outcomes. This helps our clients investigate everything from the impact of policy interventions and regulatory designs to making assessments of the economic viability of decarbonisation investments across technologies like solar panels, batteries, carbon capture, and renewable generation capacity.
Our analyses provide hard facts and a clear narrative, giving perspectives on how resilience and security of supply fit into business models or regulatory challenges – critical factors in today’s energy landscape.
Resilience, autonomy, and security of supply have become strategic imperatives for long-term success. As such, we help clients across the private and public sector gather insights into e.g. business cases or the effects of regulations to better:
For example, Europe’s clean energy system and industrial base must secure technology and materials to power the transition while fostering competitive domestic industries that support autonomy, without sacrificing global cooperation.
For more than 20 years, Copenhagen Economics has proven a trusted partner in navigating the complexities of energy economics, natural resources, and climate policy design. Whether you are seeking to optimise your green transition strategy or design policies to promote resilient sustainable energy development, we have the expertise and resources to help you make better decisions in a rapidly changing environment.
INTERSECT is our in-house, global, economic, general equilibrium model, providing a powerful platform for conducting detailed scenario analyses and informing strategic decision-making processes. Read about its capabilities in detail here.
With extensive work experience in every part of the energy sector, our team of experts offers commercial advice across the energy value chain. We specialise in strategy, valuation and commercial support incl. regulatory and commercial due diligence support, business case modelling, and market forecasts.
Our dedicated team has extensive experience in climate policy and regulatory design and conducts economic impact assessments of such policies at the macro and micro level. We help public clients develop efficient socio-economic climate policy structures and private clients in navigating, investing, and operating under current and upcoming climate policy frameworks. This includes advising on how carbon pricing can affect business models and offering support on how to secure targeted public support schemes for investments in new, low–emission technologies.
We provide guidance on the economics of energy markets and how they are affected by the growing presence of variable energy sources and new technologies (hydrogen, PtX, Carbon Management networks etc.)
In close collaboration with our Tender & Auction support team, we advise regulators and companies on how to design and participate in competitive bidding processes, such as tenders and auctions. For regulators, our support is focused on ensuring that the process achieves its policy objectives, like low-cost implementation or industrial competitiveness. For companies, our support is focused on helping to design an effective bidding strategy depending on business case dynamics and the competitive landscape.
We provide guidance on how to regulate utilities and how to operate businesses that are affected by specific sector regulation.
We perform tailored and detailed scenario modelling and forecasts using Intersect, our in-house global economic, general equilibrium model and other state-of-the-art economic tools.
