Power & Utilities
Demand for efficient and clean power is surging to support global economic and population growth.
Yet, with volatile fossil fuel prices and uneven transition rates across developed and developing markets, energy and utilities investment faces growing complexity. HKA’s expert team helps clients steer through uncertainty – mitigating risk, identifying opportunity, and resolving disputes to enable sustainable progress.
Expertise tailored to power & utilities challenges
HKA’s expertise is purpose-built to address the commercial, contractual, and technical complexities faced by owners, investors, contractors, and other stakeholders in the power and utilities sector. Our team can help you resolve a wide range of challenges, including:
Contractual and commercial
- Investment decisions and investor-state complexities
- Joint ventures’ allocations of capital investment and profit
- Conflicts over ownership of IP rights
- Stranded assets, long-term contracts and pricing
Regulatory and compliance
- Complex new and evolving frameworks
- Government interventions and societal change
- Climate target ambiguity
- Differing regulations and enforcement practices
Capital and infrastructure projects
- Performance, delays and cost overruns
- Technical failures and defects
- Risk allocation and project planning
- Environmental commitments
Why HKA
The power and utilities industry is under pressure from all sides – policy shifts, regulatory reform, market restructuring, pricing innovation, emerging technologies, and growing environmental demands. Navigating this complexity requires deep, cross-disciplinary expertise.
HKA brings that expertise. Our specialists have hands-on experience across the full spectrum of energy sources – from thermal and nuclear to hydro and renewables – as well as with smart grid systems, water treatment, and distribution infrastructure. We help clients anticipate risk, seize opportunity, and resolve disputes with confidence.
How we can help you
Our services help you navigate power and utilities risk and uncertainty across the value chain.
HKA’s financial and forensic accounting specialists quantify commercial and economic damages across the power and utilities sector. Their valuation expertise spans expropriated assets, intellectual property, stranded assets, long-term contracts, and pricing or tariff disputes. In addition to investigating financial irregularities and fraud, we examine market behaviour, regulatory breaches, and competition ethics.
We have supported numerous joint venture disputes and advised investors and government bodies in investment treaty cases – delivering expert testimony in international arbitration on complex power and utilities projects.
HKA experts guide clients through complex regulatory landscapes, including state regulations, executive orders, and enforcement frameworks. During project planning, our advisory specialists help align design phases with approval processes to avoid delays and recommend improvements that streamline internal decision-making.
Our environmental practice offers comprehensive support – from impact assessments and land or water contamination to ESG strategy, climate adaptation, and sustainability reporting.
As shown by our global CRUX research programme, many power and utility projects experience significant cost and schedule overruns. As the pre-eminent firm in dispute resolution, HKA provides leading experts in delay, disruption, and quantum analysis.
Our multidisciplinary forensic technical experts are qualified to investigate, report, and testify on defects across all types of power plants, energy infrastructure, and water and wastewater treatment systems. We also advise on dispute avoidance, as well as planning, procurement, and project management to help clients achieve better project outcomes.
HKA’s financial and forensic accounting specialists quantify commercial and economic damages across the power and utilities sector. Their valuation expertise spans expropriated assets, intellectual property, stranded assets, long-term contracts, and pricing or tariff disputes. In addition to investigating financial irregularities and fraud, we examine market behaviour, regulatory breaches, and competition ethics.
We have supported numerous joint venture disputes and advised investors and government bodies in investment treaty cases – delivering expert testimony in international arbitration on complex power and utilities projects.
HKA experts guide clients through complex regulatory landscapes, including state regulations, executive orders, and enforcement frameworks. During project planning, our advisory specialists help align design phases with approval processes to avoid delays and recommend improvements that streamline internal decision-making.
Our environmental practice offers comprehensive support – from impact assessments and land or water contamination to ESG strategy, climate adaptation, and sustainability reporting.
As shown by our global CRUX research programme, many power and utility projects experience significant cost and schedule overruns. As the pre-eminent firm in dispute resolution, HKA provides leading experts in delay, disruption, and quantum analysis.
Our multidisciplinary forensic technical experts are qualified to investigate, report, and testify on defects across all types of power plants, energy infrastructure, and water and wastewater treatment systems. We also advise on dispute avoidance, as well as planning, procurement, and project management to help clients achieve better project outcomes.
HKA provides end-to-end support across the power and utilities value chain, helping clients navigate regulatory complexity, commercial risk, and infrastructure challenges.
Our experts deliver strategic guidance on compliance and environmental issues, quantify financial damages and resolve disputes, and offer deep technical insight into project performance and defects. With multidisciplinary expertise and global experience, we help clients achieve better outcomes in a rapidly evolving energy landscape.
