Transforming businesses in New Zealand

PA Consulting Group in New Zealand supports clients throughout the Asia-Pacific region, providing specialist services both to the governments of the region and to its most innovative companies.

In our engagements, we adopt a rigorous approach to defining client challenges and then assessing potential solutions. With the application of highly sophisticated analytical techniques and simulation tools, we strive to improve business efficiency and profitability for our clients, including: Transpower New Zealand, Independent Market Operator of Western Australia, New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries, Asian Development Bank, Malaysia Energy Commission, Economic Policy Unit, Malaysian Prime Minister's Department, Philippines Department of Energy, and Energy Markets Authority of Singapore.

PA has an outstanding track record in this region, helping to create measurable results for clients in many industries, with particular expertise in:

Energy

PA's New Zealand-based consultants have been at the forefront of energy industry reform worldwide. We pioneer market developments, such as those in New Zealand and Australia, along with more recent reforms in countries such as China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Samoa and Singapore. Our experience covers the macro level, through working on major reforms, such as market disaggregation and the establishment of regulatory and market mechanisms. It also covers the micro-level, through helping individual industry players to meet the challenges of increasing competition and deregulation. Our assignments for energy clients have encompassed: industry and enterprise structural reform; regulatory policy; design of market rules and codes; corporatisation, commercialisation, and privatisation; strategic modelling for businesses and the broader economy; and asset valuation and due diligence. 

PA acts as the "approved market software auditor” for the market clearing software used in the New Zealand Electricity market since 1996. The market rules require that all designated software used to dispatch, price and settle the wholesale electricity market be “audited”, that is, tested and certified, before it can be used in the market.  In addition to testing the software, PA also examined changes proposed to the mathematical formulation (description) of the software to ensure that the proposed changes complied with the requirements of the market rules.

To learn more of our capabilities in this region, please contact us now.