Projects

Meridian collaborated with the client's legal advisors to prepare a detailed response to the NERSA consultation document. The submssion questioned the basic premise of the approach NERSA proposed to adopt and suggested an alternative that would be compliant with the provisions of the Gas Act. ...

In this high-level study, we analysed the nature of the City's existing network and generation infrastructure and considered the demand-side data that could be obtained from the City. We then evaluated the practical and economic potential for utilising the City's pump storage scheme, open cycle gas turbines, demand response and other innovative load curtailment strategies to avoid loadshedding. ...

Meridian was appointed to review the proposed changes and to prepare comments on behalf of the client with the aim of ensuring that the client's preferred commercial pricing strategy would be achievable under the new regulations. We also represented the client at a DOE consultation workshop. ...

Meridian was appointed to assist with facilitating a multi-day high-level strategic planning workshop convened by the Premier's Office as part of their 'Game Changers' programme. ...

We collaborated with Econex and Eskom to undertake a scenario based study of the price and other implications of pursuing different coal sourcing strategies. The quantitative analysis was primarily based on Eskom's coal supply optimisation model. ...

We collaborated with Econex and Eskom by leading a project to produce a large study of the coal market in South Africa. The investigation focussed on outlining the key characteristics of the South African coal market (including the export component); on reviewing Eskom's future coal requirements; on identifying and investigating the key challenges that Eskom faces in meeting its future coal supply objectives; and on outlining the key choices, policies and strategies that will be required to meet its objectives. ...

Meridian was appointed to prepare the Sunrise tariff application. However, given that Sunrise required a levelised cost tariff (an inflation indexed tariff) we first had to engage NERSA around the methodology that Sunrise wished to use for the application. After extensive engagements and exchanges of letters on the technicalities of our proposed approach (and demonstrating its NPV equivalence to the NERSA Rate of Return approach) we were able to reach a point where the tariff application could proceed on a levelised cost basis. ...

Meridian collaborated with Econex to investigate the costs and benefits that the Gasnosu pipeline (which included gas-to-power projects), would hold for the economies of South Africa and Mozambique, and the southern African region as a whole. ...

Meridian's role was to prepare comments on the proposed changes as specialist regulatory economists. We collaborated with the client's legal advisors in compiling a comprehensive response to the proposed changes to the Gas Act. ...

Grové was appointed as a specialist regulatory advisor to Eskom in order to assist with preparing appropriate responses to NERSA and advise on regulatory strategy. ...