Energy Strategy Consulting

EY-Parthenon Energy Strategy Consulting teams help oil and gas, chemicals, power and utilities, and metals and mining companies enhance value while reshaping their businesses to meet tomorrow’s energy needs. We apply the latest technology, leading business practices, deep M&A experience and more to help your business thrive.

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The team

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Regina Balderas

EY-Parthenon Americas Oil & Gas and Chemicals Sector Leader

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EY-Parthenon Americas Power & Utilities Sector Leader

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EY Americas Metals & Mining Strategy and Transactions Leader

What EY-Parthenon Energy Strategy Consulting teams can do for you

As the energy industry transforms, EY-Parthenon teams can help you answer some of your most critical questions:

Transformative strategy

What strategies can we implement to enhance value as energy systems expand and are increasingly interconnected?
How can we strengthen energy resilience and security in light of geopolitical, trade, tax and economic uncertainties?
How can we identify and capitalize on new opportunities in the evolving energy landscape while managing associated risks?
How can we craft our business strategies to meet various stakeholder and regulatory demands in the current and future energy market?
How can we enhance energy security in light of geopolitical uncertainties that can affect infrastructure and access to natural resources?
What financing strategies can we adopt to support the expansion of energy, including renewables and innovative technologies, as demand grows?

Transformative transactions

How can we best structure our portfolio to adapt to geopolitical forces that may drive more onshore assets and capabilities to enhance our growth strategy?
How can a future-forward transaction strategy help us effectively manage the balance between short-term gains and long-term sustainability goals?
How can we cost effectively add innovative technologies, including leading-edge digitization processes, into our operations?

EY-Parthenon Energy Strategy Consulting professionals have extensive experience in current and new energy sources, regulatory environments and innovative technologies, including leading-edge digitization and AI processes. We combine this with a deep understanding of financing strategies and solid investment and capital deployment opportunities to help you optimize M&A portfolio strategies and subsequent integration plans. The result: helping energy companies create a winning position that allows them to improve energy reliability, affordability and delivery.

Our focus includes:

Pricing volatility, changing regulations and the cost of capital demand operational efficiency and technological development. EY-Parthenon energy strategy teams apply the latest technology to help transform companies into digitally enabled, process-focused, high-return businesses. We help organizations balance investments as their businesses become increasingly complex and diversified.
Chemical companies are witnessing intensified cost pressures to protect margins and a need to invest in digitizing their operations to enable more efficiency and promote low-cost, sustainable R&D. The sector also continues to pursue growth, both in technology and talent, through consolidation and the adoption of new strategies. EY-Parthenon teams help a variety of chemical companies, such as specialty chemicals, fertilizers, agrochemicals, paints and coatings, realize an improved sustainable business model and advancements in technology to succeed tomorrow, today.
Increasing demand requirements — driven by AI — are the shift to a generation portfolio that includes both traditional generation sources as well as renewable energy and distributed generation, presenting a huge challenge to this sector: All networks must be digitized fast and at the lowest possible cost. Other issues impacting this business include significant load growth expectations, aging infrastructures, cybersecurity threats and urgent repair timelines. EY-Parthenon power and utility strategists focus on the implementation of the industry’s leading practices to help companies address these competing priorities while also addressing regulator guidance and customer needs. In addition, our knowledge and experience in M&A sector activity can provide a key advantage for dealmaking and post-deal integration.
We help increase business value and agility (less time, cost, disruption) through innovative technology use; for example, increasing operational productivity based on better data collection methods, generating cash through scenario modeling, providing systems access anytime and anywhere, optimizing value from existing technology and more. The EY-Parthenon energy strategy goal is to help organizations better meet existing metal demand while quickly ramping up production to help fill the exponential need for more minerals and metals caused by the clean energy transition.

EY-Parthenon Energy Strategy Consulting team

Regina Balderas

EY-Parthenon Americas Oil & Gas and Chemicals Sector Leader

Leader of complex divestitures and transformational deals from strategy through to execution.

Houston, TX, United States

Jeffrey Miller

EY-Parthenon Americas Power & Utilities Sector Leader

A Power & Utilities strategist who works to help clients achieve their desired business outcomes. Surfaces industry-leading views and perspectives while sharing cutting-edge practices.

Atlanta, GA, United States

Jay Patel

EY Americas Metals & Mining Strategy and Transactions Leader

Relentlessly focused on helping clients seize opportunity and achieve potential while managing risk. Business valuer. Analytics, automation and artificial intelligence enthusiast.

Toronto, Canada

Bruce On

Strategy and Transactions Energy Partner

Energized by helping clients achieve their full potential through strategic execution of their growth, portfolio and M&A strategy. Husband. Father of four. Triathlete. Ironman. Canyoneering.

Houston, TX, United States

Sean Heinroth

EY-Parthenon Principal, Oil & Gas and Chemicals, Strategy and Execution, Ernst & Young LLP

Husband, father, son and brother. Soccer enthusiast. Texas A&M alum. Energy and chemicals strategist. Experienced M&A professional. Advocate for affordable energy and innovative chemistries.

Houston, TX, United States

Miles Huq

Partner, EY-Parthenon, Ernst & Young LLP

Strategic Ernst & Young LLP partner in power and utility transactions. Trusted advisor to clients, colleagues, friends and family.

Baltimore, MD, United States

Mile Milisavljevic

Principal, EY-Parthenon, Ernst & Young LLP

Music lover in Houston. Believer in the future of energy. Strategy and M&A for decades.

Houston, TX, United States

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