Process Improvement
The energy and water enterprises that Enterprise Management Solutions ("EMS") serves
have a "lot of moving parts" that, when synchronized, help organizations run smoothly
and efficiently. Like complex machines, however, various elements of the enterprise
can get out of sync. For energy and water enterprises the most likely drivers of
process change are organizations' need to respond to outside changes or management
initiatives to find additional efficiencies.
Few firms are as capable as EMS to help clients better synchronize their operations
and align their efforts with the enterprise's goals. EMS professionals use their
extensive experience, industry best practices, and clients' inherent strengths to
identify the areas of greatest potential gain, to create well-defined programs to
enhance a client's ability to perform the required tasks, and to integrate the upgraded
capability into the business and customer "touch points" to deliver the desired
benefits.
EMS combines experienced project managers, technology specialists, engineers and
internationally recognized experts with the global experience of Black & Veatch
and delivers it locally to help clients optimize their enterprise's performance
in a variety of functional areas.
Process Improvement
- Performance Management
- Optimize Integration into Markets
- Asset Management
- Succession Planning
- Benchmarking
- Due Diligence/Asset Valuation
- Transaction Support
- Rate and Regulatory Support
- Organizational Strengthening/Succession Planning
Markets Addressed
- Energy Providers/Consumers
- Government
- Financial and Legal Communities
- Public Energy Entities
- Electric Generation, Transmission and Distribution
- Natural Gas, LNG, NGLs and Oil – Midstream, Pipeline, Distribution and Marketing
- Municipal, Private and Co-Op Water Enterprises, Including Water, Wastewater and
Stormwater Utility Service
Experience Highlights
- Detroit Water and Sewerage – Performance dashboard, executive information
system development
- Dallas Water Utilities – Asset management program
- LIPA - Benchmarking of six northeastern utilities as a benchmark for a
process improvement initiative
- FirstEnergy – Developed a process to better manage congestion costs
- ATMOS Energy – Assisted client in preparing rate and regulatory filings
and provided expert cost allocation and rate design testimony in several states
- State of Alaska – Currently engaged as a consultant to assist in
the evaluation of proposals related to the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline and its economic
impact on the state
- Minerals Management Service, Department of Interior – Retained to
complete a wide-ranging evaluation of the risks and rewards associated with marketing
Royalty-In-Kind (RIK) natural gas and crude oil
- Lodi Storage / Arclight Capital - Retained to assist with valuation and
financing support for Lodi Storage located in California
- South Carolina Pipeline Corporation – Assisted client with rate studies
and preparation of exhibits in support of a pipeline certificate application with
the FERC
- Gulf Coast LNG Partners, L.P. – Lukens Energy Group provided six-year
forecasts of future natural gas flows and prices for approximately 10 pricing points
in the Gulf Coast region near existing and proposed LNG receiving terminals.
- Old Dominion Electric Cooperative – Lukens Energy Group was retained
to assess the alternatives, costs, strategies and timing for arranging the delivery
of natural gas to one of nine different sites where the power plant may be located.