Your issues

In terms of energy and the environment, the main issues at stake today include:

• Ensuring secure energy supplies at an affordable price
• Integrated, sustainable resource management
• Consumer protection
• Maintaining businesses' competitiveness in the face of ecological challenges (implementation of Kyoto and EU obligations) 
• Developing forms of renewable energy and integrating the RUE dimension
• Assistance in obtaining finance for infrastructure projects and developing borrowing concepts
• Reorganising public energy and environmental enterprises and developing public/private partnerships

Our value-added

PricewaterhouseCoopers can contribute to the success of your projects in a number of ways:

• Analysing market structures and redefining sectoral strategies
• Providing guidance on institutional, legal and organisational change 
• Carrying out market and benchmarking surveys
• Monitoring and assessing the results of public policies (grant schemes, green certificates, smart meters, etc.)
• Transaction assistance and investment aid:
  • acquisitions
  • consolidations
  • business plans
  • new contract set-ups (purchasing centres, cooperatives, etc.)
  • tax aspects
  • development of public/private partnerships (utilising BOT/BOOT models)
• Reorganisation of energy and water operators in Belgium and abroad
• Audit and evaluation of concession/operational contract letting arrangements in the electricity and water sectors
• Assistance in obtaining finance from banks, export credit agencies and international institutions (European institutions and the World Bank Group)