Wind auction and economics
Our wind auction and economics analysis provides the optimum bid strategy and the quantitative justification for the adoption and growth of renewable energy technologies.
Our work on the wind economics helps you understand the benefits at a national and local level. Offshore renewables in particular provide a unique opportunity to stimulate economic development in regions that suffer from long-term decline in their traditional industries. We have led the way in establishing robust methods for quantifying local content and employment benefits.
Our market leading approach to modelling the cost of energy has helped the renewable energy industry tell a coherent, long-term story of how it can become the most cost effective source of new electricity generation. It also helps individual players to articulate the benefits of their market offerings and enable R&D leaders to focus on the areas of greatest opportunity for cost reduction.
Our insight from this work has made us the leading player in the production of offshore wind supply chain plans for UK projects. We have helped project developers and their suppliers document clearly how they contribute to the sustainability of the offshore wind supply chain. We help project developers and their key suppliers to engage with the local supply chain.

Bid strategy and competitor analysis
Our bid strategy and competitor analysis work:
- Increases the likelihood of profitable auction wins
- Provides expert support in auction preparation and implementation phases
- Supports the development of a robust business case
- Enhances the breadth and robustness of non-price evidence
- Increases understanding of competitor likely play-books
- Provides additional, expert and flexible external headcount
- Challenges group think for more effective strategies
- Draws on our deep cost modelling expertise

Bid drafting and review
Our bid drafting and review work:
- Optimises bid submissions against auction criteria
- Maximises scores for price and non-price criteria
- Improves bid content, credibility and creativity
- Ensures bid teams deliver the best they possibly can
- Delivers independent mock-scoring exercises to enhance bid content
- Enables robust, evidence-based submissions
- Increases credibility of bid evidence
- Is informed by own passion for clear and concise communication

Jobs, local economic benefit, and non-price factors
Our jobs, local economic benefit, and non-price factors work:
- Is globally recognised as being industry leading, providing independent expert analysis
- Provides robust evidence of project benefits to stakeholders
- Incorporates non-price factors in bids
- Encourages community support for projects
- Measures job creation and economic impact globally, nationally and regionally
- Supports workforce development strategies
- Is informed by work we do with governments in shaping policies and auction frameworks

Financial modelling: cost of energy – future, spatial, site finding
Our cost and levelized cost of energy (LCOE) modelling:
- Is recognised as leading industry best practice
- Delivers deep understanding of cost drivers across project life cycles and supply chain elements
- Informs project decisions based on optimum commercial returns
- Identifies likely competitor cost advantages and disadvantages
- Provides independent challenge to internal teams
- Is used to inform and enhance much of the work that we deliver for public and private sector clients