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Overview Simon is a senior advisor and manager with more than 30 years’ experience applying strategy, economics & finance expertise in energy, infrastructure, circular economy, & other sectors. He applies best practice methodologies, analytical rigour and data to diverse investment, transaction, dispute & other complex, high stake, decisions. His successful consulting career spans more than 20 years at major & boutique firms including Marsden Jacob Associates, LECG, Mainsheet & Arthur Andersen. This followed a decade in Treasury departments in Australia & NZ, and at NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, working on infrastructure capacity, governance, pricing & performance & international trade.
Recognition His expertise is recognised by repeat appointments to the Western Australian Energy Review Board panel of experts, and the Board itself. He worked for USAID in Pakistan alongside a US economic regulator. He has appeared for the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines before the Philippines Energy Regulatory Commission and before the Australian Competition and Consumer Tribunal in an infrastructure access pricing dispute.
Approach Understanding client goals, opportunities, constraints, and challenges, under dynamic markets, changing competition, technologies and costs, and consumer preferences and regulation.
Track record He has successfully delivered a series of complex, multi-stakeholder transaction, investment, financing, and other change projects for infrastructure clients in Australia, New Zealand and internationally, including in the Philippines, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa and PNG. He has built and led multi-disciplinary teams and fostered young talent. Simon collaborates within a consulting network across Australia, New Zealand and beyond, providing complex economic, market and financial modelling, and advice in corporate finance, data analytics, law and regulation, engineering, stakeholder engagement, development planning, circular economy, regional development, primary industries and much else.
Recent major impacts
- Leading a large, multi-firm set of consulting projects for Energy Policy Western Australia to advise on the detailed design of real time markets for co-optimised security constrained economic despatch, generator performance standards, essential system services market segmentation, market power mitigation & congestion pricing.
- Consulting to the NSW government to develop key parts of the NSW electricity infrastructure investment roadmap, including preparing investment cases for the establishment of NSW EnergyCo, renewable energy zone transmission and accelerated early transmission works underwriting.
- For the Clean Energy Finance Commission, advising on the value of common user transmission infrastructure for the decarbonisation of the Pilbara energy system.
- Virtual power plant subject matter expert for independent review of ARENA investment in Western Australia.
- As guest contributor for IEEFA, developed and applied comprehensive methodology for assessing the effectiveness of economic regulation of monopoly electricity and gas transmission and distribution networks, integrating financial and productivity data and accounting for information asymmetry.
- Advising the Australian Energy Security Board on DER technical standards.
Education: Master of Arts (hons), Bachelor of Arts, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
The Technical Stuff
The Technical Stuff
The Technical Stuff
Our experienced team use best practice methodologies , analytical rigour and data to diverse investment, transaction, dispute & other complex, high stake, decisions. A rigorous data driven approach, and reference to relevant legal frameworks, mean that solutions are capable of withstanding review and potential legal challenges.
Our Expertise
The Technical Stuff
Our Expertise
We're a network of economists, data analysts, regulatory experts, micro-simulation and cost benefit modelers. We thrive on sharing our experience and knowledge to help out clients innovate and introduce dynamic change.
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Our Experience
Our Experience
Our Experience
With more than 20 years' experience in economic consulting, our founder Simon Orme decided to take a fresh approach and established Tahuconsulting.com
Our Approach
Our Experience
Our Experience
The starting point of our success is ensuring we understand client goals and the challenges to achieving these goals in dynamic market, regulatory and social settings.
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Why Us?
Our teams apply best practice methodologies using a strongly data driven, evidence based, rigorous approach to public policy and regulatory challenges.
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