Protecting the enterprise

What EY can do for you

Power and utility companies continue to be challenged by downward pressures on revenues, while spending on risk management and compliance is escalating. Additionally, the industry is facing an inevitable tipping point to a new energy world, in which customers can generate and trade energy among themselves and with nontraditional players. Electricity networks are under catastrophic levels of stress while utilities are forced to invest more to keep up with change as margins fall.

How is your organization managing both today’s risks and the long-term risks of the new energy world?

How you adapt and respond to this transforming risk environment will determine whether you thrive or even survive a decade from now.

We work with you to take an in-depth look at your critical risks, assessing risk appetite and tolerance across your enterprise. We’ll help you develop the strategic frameworks, response and controls approaches as well as the governance you need to improve your risk and security model. We will give you the agility to adapt and the resiliency to respond in the most efficient and effective way.

How much are you overspending on risk and security?

The question isn’t whether you are overspending: it’s by how much. Siloed functions, along with ineffective operating models, cobbled together over the years through reactive responses and patchwork approaches to risk management, have driven up costs. They have also contributed to a risk landscape that is overcontrolled in some areas, while underinvested in others.

Using rapid diagnostics, we quickly challenge what gets done, where it gets done and who does it, identifying high-value areas to provide significant savings by:

• Improving your controls framework to focus on the risks that matter and eliminate redundant controls
• Centralizing risk monitoring to reduce costs and improve quality and efficiencies
• Shifting resources and leveraging technology to automate controls where it makes good business sense

We offer customized services that can help you build a risk-aware organization

We bring significant benefit to power and utility companies by challenging the existing risk operating model and targeting the following areas for differential investment and focus.

Seizing the upsize of disruption

As the pace of change continues to accelerate, so will the intensity of risk. We can help you develop and manage an integrated, agile and resilient risk operating model that supports your organization’s risk transformation journey ready to reap the rewards of the new energy world.