Delta has undertaken a wide range of DE-related client assignments in recent years. View a selection of our clients on the clients page. Examples of the type of work Delta has completed for different client groups can be seen below.

Clients in:

	Energy Companies
	Equipment Manufacturers
	The Finance Sector
	Policy Makers

Energy Companies
Delta provides these clients with DE market analysis and insight:

• Identifying opportunities and risks associated with investing in different technologies and markets. 
• Analysing the impacts of policy, economics, and technology developments on future markets.
• Providing market projections and assessing the potential size of markets.
• Strategy development and implementation.
• Advising on broader low carbon strategies.

Studies, Services and Summits for Energy Companies

• Utility Low Carbon Strategies.
• The Delta Electric Vehicle Service.
• The Delta Electricity Storage Service and the Electricity Storage Multi-Client Study and ‘Electricity Storage in Europe’ Summit.
• The Delta Micro-CHP Service and ‘Micro-CHP in Europe’ Summit.
• The Delta CHP Policy & Markets Service.
• The Delta Micro-Wind Multi-Client Study.

Consultancy for Energy Companies

Selected examples:

• Distributed generation technology and market status, together with strategy recommendations, for a North American utility.
• Examining small wind market developments and products for a European utility.
• An analysis of global decentralised energy technology developments for a major UK utility.
• Identifying CHP market opportunities across Europe and developing a strategy for exploiting them for a major European oil & gas company.
• Providing DE market intelligence to a North American utility, covering technologies including small wind turbines, CHP, solar thermal and photovoltaics.
• Evaluation of bio-CHP products and supply chains for a UK utility.
• Advising a group of Californian energy companies and major energy users on the development of the Californian emissions trading scheme.
• Detailed analysis for a major European gas company of micro and mini-CHP market status, prospects, and stakeholders in four European countries.

Equipment Manufacturers

• Understanding the best markets to target.
• Developing the right strategies to adopt to successfully exploit those markets. 

Studies, Services and Summits for Equipment Manufacturers

• The Delta Electric Vehicle Service.
• The Delta Electricity Storage Service along with our Electricity Storage Multi-Client Study and ‘Electricity Storage in Europe’ Summit.
• The Delta Micro-CHP Service and ‘Micro-CHP in Europe’ Summit.
• The Delta CHP Policy & Markets Service.
• The Delta Micro-Wind Multi-Client Study.

Consultancy for Equipment Manufacturers

Selected examples:

• Global assessment of industrial CHP market prospects and guidance on the most attractive national opportunities for an international manufacturer of power generation equipment.
• An examination of European micro-CHP opportunities for a North American fuel cell developer.
• Producing a series of national emerging market DE analyses for the World Alliance for Decentralized Energy (including Brazil, China, India, Mexico and Russia).
• An in-depth evaluation of the Japanese micro-CHP market and opportunities for a micro-CHP technology developer.
• Evaluating the market for gas engines in several European markets for a major European boiler manufacturer.

Investors and the Finance Sector

• Commercial and market due diligence on decentralised energy (DE) technologies and manufacturers.
• Fore-sighting analysis.
• In-depth sector analysis and investment advice.

Consultancy for the Finance Sector

Selected examples:

• Providing a large European investment bank with in-depth analysis on the photovoltaic sector to inform investment decisions.
• Providing DE market intelligence assistance to a Swiss corporate finance company, in order to inform its consideration of a major company purchase in the DE equipment sector.
• Providing a global market assessment, including scenario-based market projections, of the microgeneration opportunity (for potential mass market application in the residential sector) to a European investment company.
• Undertaking an analysis of carbon finance investment opportunities in the Russian DE sector for a major German international investment bank.
• Supporting an EU-based International Financial Institution in understanding the European market for industrial energy outsourcing, with a focus on CHP, in order to shape its investment strategy in central & eastern Europe.
• Providing due diligence assessment of a micro-CHP technology for a UK venture capital investor. 

Policy Makers

• Guidance and recommendations on the policy measures necessary to drive DE markets.
• Analyse the impact of policy frameworks on DE up-take.
• Assist in the development of policy and marketing strategies for industry associations.

Consultancy for Policy Makers

Selected examples:

• Supporting the International Energy Agency with the development and implementation of its CHP / District Heating & Cooling Collaborative programme, including writing several reports. View the programme here.
• Providing a G8 government with assistance in its DE technology R&D evaluation programme, with an assessment of international CHP Strategies and the provision of a range of recommendations on the development of its own National CHP Strategy. 
• Identification of worldwide trade barriers to CHP for the OECD.
• Undertaking a detailed assessment of the implications of the EU Cogeneration Directive for a European national cogeneration association.
• Assistance to the European Commission in exploring the feasibility of establishing an international ‘Carbon Fund’ for investment in DE and other sustainable energy projects.
• Assistance to the leading DE industry association in Latin America in the development of its policy and marketing strategies.
• Modelling the performance –economic and environmental - of a variety of types of CHP plant against different types of central generation, for a CHP association.