Expertise

We offer service expertise in these areas

Energy System Modelling

Meridian Economics leverages its extensive in-house modelling and quantitative capacity to provide robust analysis and projections of national, regional and firm-level energy systems across diverse future scenarios. Our sophisticated modelling capabilities enable us to craft optimal strategies to achieve energy security and decarbonisation objectives, ensuring that our clients are well-prepared for the energy challenges of tomorrow.

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Energy Market Reform

With decades of experience, Meridian has developed deep insights into South Africa’s energy policy landscape staying ahead of new policy and market developments. These insights are integral to the decision support we offer firms and our contributions to public policy reform. We conduct thorough sector policy investigations and assist in the development of government or regulatory strategies, including studies on market and institutional reform, ensuring that our clients and policymakers are informed and strategically positioned.

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Decarbonisation Analysis and Support

Meridian’s longstanding experience at the intersection of climate policy and economics provides us with deep insight into the systemic nature of the climate mitigation challenge. Our specific skills include mitigation scenario planning and modelling, developing firm-level climate strategies, conceptualising climate finance mechanisms, climate mitigation policy and instrument analysis, and facilitation and policy engagement. We are able to innovate in the fast-moving just transition space, to support both private and public sector clients navigate climate risks and maximise emerging low-carbon opportunities.

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Infrastructure Economics and Finance

Meridian assists clients with project and advanced financial modelling, pricing strategies, contract negotiations, and the financing process, ensuring that infrastructure projects are economically sound and strategically viable. We also provide support on commercial strategy including risk assessment, hedging, new business development, and market analysis. Our expertise extends to tariff and pricing design, enabling clients to optimise their financial outcomes.

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Regulatory and Litigation Support

With extensive experience in regulatory engagements, Meridian helps clients secure licence and tariff approvals while ensuring stakeholders achieve cost reflective and fair pricing. We conduct expert financial and economic analyses, particularly in pricing and tariff regulation. Additionally, we serve as economic experts in litigation concerning contractual or regulatory disputes, damages claims and related matters, providing clients with robust support in legal and regulatory challenges.

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We address the needs of a diverse range of clients

Energy Consumers

Meridian offers firm-level support to energy consumers, including commercial and industrial businesses, with their energy security and decarbonisation goals.

Firms face risks and opportunities in energy sourcing due to new decarbonisation, security, and cost imperatives, and often lack the expertise to navigate these complexities. Meridian assists by understanding each firm’s specific energy needs, including load profiles, business flexibility, decarbonisation requirements, and alternative energy costs. By leveraging extensive market expertise, policy knowledge, and advanced quantitative modelling, Meridian empowers decision-makers to gain critical insights and develop optimal strategies to achieve their energy and decarbonisation goals.

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Energy Suppliers

Supply-side entities, including power producers (Eskom and IPPs), municipalities, market intermediaries (traders and aggregators), and financial institutions (infrastructure investors, banks, DFIs) need to adapt to a risky and uncertain energy market.

This arises from decreasing technology costs, constrained and unreliable networks, and the rapid evolution of the market, policy and regulatory environment, potentially stranding investments. Energy providers must consider the risks and develop strategies to deliver the required investment returns, while investors need assurance that their business models are resilient and profitable. Meridian addresses these needs by providing key insights into demand and decarbonisation drivers, the interplay between demand and competing supply options, and the associated legal and regulatory implications of different energy supply strategies. This enables energy providers to develop and test the robustness of their business models in a continuously evolving landscape.

Public Sector

Public sector entities play a pivotal role driving a just energy transition but face significant challenges in doing so. These include reducing reliance on an ageing and unreliable coal fleet while eliminating load shedding, managing the growing integration of renewables, maintaining and upgrading transmission and distribution infrastructure, transitioning from Eskom’s vertically integrated monopoly to a competitive multi-market structure, and addressing the mounting debt at Eskom and municipalities.

Ensuring the transition is just requires additional measures to protect vulnerable groups including skills development plans, job creation and economic diversification. With these pressing needs, public sector stakeholders must design and implement effective solutions. Meridian offers support in the form of new paradigms, insights, and innovative governance, delivery, and financing models to help public entities tackle difficult challenges and accelerate a sustainable transition.

Public Benefit Work

Stakeholders across society need to be informed about and understand the complex transition in the climate and energy sector. These stakeholders require reliable data, effective mental models, independent perspectives and processes to navigate increasing complexity and uncertainty.

In its think-tank role, Meridian addresses these needs by collating, packaging, and publishing freely available energy and climate related research. We also develop media to help stakeholders understand complex issues and actively contribute to public discourse by offering expert commentary and insights on key aspects of the energy transition.

We address the needs of a diverse range of clients

Energy Consumers

Meridian offers firm-level support to energy consumers, including commercial and industrial businesses, with their energy security and decarbonisation goals.

Firms face risks and opportunities in energy sourcing due to new decarbonisation, security, and cost imperatives, and often lack the expertise to navigate these complexities. Meridian assists by understanding each firm’s specific energy needs, including load profiles, business flexibility, decarbonisation requirements, and alternative energy costs. By leveraging extensive market expertise, policy knowledge, and advanced quantitative modelling, Meridian empowers decision-makers to gain critical insights and develop optimal strategies to achieve their energy and decarbonisation goals.

See this brochure  on our service offerings for energy consumers $

Energy Suppliers

Supply-side entities, including power producers (Eskom and IPPs), municipalities, market intermediaries (traders and aggregators), and financial institutions (infrastructure investors, banks, DFIs) need to adapt to a risky and uncertain energy market.

This arises from decreasing technology costs, constrained and unreliable networks, and the rapid evolution of the market, policy and regulatory environment, potentially stranding investments. Energy providers must consider the risks and develop strategies to deliver the required investment returns, while investors need assurance that their business models are resilient and profitable. Meridian addresses these needs by providing key insights into demand and decarbonisation drivers, the interplay between demand and competing supply options, and the associated legal and regulatory implications of different energy supply strategies. This enables energy providers to develop and test the robustness of their business models in a continuously evolving landscape.

Public Sector

Public sector entities play a pivotal role driving a just energy transition but face significant challenges in doing so. These include reducing reliance on an ageing and unreliable coal fleet while eliminating load shedding, managing the growing integration of renewables, maintaining and upgrading transmission and distribution infrastructure, transitioning from Eskom’s vertically integrated monopoly to a competitive multi-market structure, and addressing the mounting debt at Eskom and municipalities.

Ensuring the transition is just requires additional measures to protect vulnerable groups including skills development plans, job creation and economic diversification. With these pressing needs, public sector stakeholders must design and implement effective solutions. Meridian offers support in the form of new paradigms, insights, and innovative governance, delivery, and financing models to help public entities tackle difficult challenges and accelerate a sustainable transition.

Public Benefit Work

Stakeholders across society need to be informed about and understand the complex transition in the climate and energy sector. These stakeholders require reliable data, effective mental models, independent perspectives and processes to navigate increasing complexity and uncertainty.

In its think-tank role, Meridian addresses these needs by collating, packaging, and publishing freely available energy and climate related research. We also develop media to help stakeholders understand complex issues and actively contribute to public discourse by offering expert commentary and insights on key aspects of the energy transition.