Retail Energy Markets (REM) Advisory Service

Providing insight into the issues facing competitive retail energy markets

KEMA retail energy markets advisory service / REM

Now in its 14th year, KEMA’s Retail Energy Markets (REM) advisory service is the leading source of business intelligence and market analysis to the competitive retail energy industry. Our client base includes 23 of the top 25 North American energy retailers as well as numerous utilities, merchant generators, vendors, investment firms, and other stakeholders in competitive retail markets.

 

The service focuses on strategic, financial, and regulatory issues facing companies in competitive retail markets – providing significant benefits to our clients. The primary objectives of the service are to:

  • provide timely regulatory and competitive intelligence

  • track key policy and market developments

  • articulate an objective, third party view of opportunities and risks in competitive power markets.

REM Advisory Service benefits

Clients benefit from our advisory service by gaining:

  • insights into the market: insight and analysis from migration projections to retailer strategy to policy trends

  • broad and deep coverage of issues: assess market and policy developments through a wide and mature set of primary and secondary sources

  • research efficiency: utilize our team’s wealth of knowledge and data sources to improve your research and analysis efforts through our client reports and your ad hoc requests

  • external, expert perspective: seasoned retail professionals and specialists can provide an outside perspective on a range of retail issues

  • a robust retail network: over the 10 years the service has existed, KEMA has developed a robust network of retail professionals that share insights and cultivate contacts

  • timeliness and responsiveness: KEMA’s analyst staff prides itself on the ability to quickly respond to client requests. For some clients, the largest benefit of the service comes from analyst responses to their specific requests.

REM Advisory Service components

KEMA’s REM Advisory Service provides unique, high value intelligence and analysis on competitive energy markets. The advisory service provides clients access to proprietary reports and datasets as well as direct inquiry privileges. 

 

REM service components include periodic in depth analysis including:

  • retail market outlook – annual five-year projections of the size of competitive retail power markets. Driven by varying policy and market assumptions, three sets of estimates are provided under a High Case, Base Case, and Low Case for state, utility, and sector-level estimates of competitive activity

  • restructuring review – annual review of key policies and rate structures in open retail power markets; provides current information on market size and customer migration; analysis of trends in restructuring policies and market activity over the past year

  • datasets – KEMA develops proprietary datasets that support in depth reports and track various retail market and competitor activities and developments. These data include customer switching activity and retailer market share estimates. All data KEMA develops is accompanied by rigorous analysis and a description of methodology

  • retail market monitor – a monthly report that provides business and policy intelligence on key retail issues, including: regulatory developments, competitive intelligence, retailer financial performance, and analysis of leading markets and players

  • conference calls – research and overview of current retail markets status and/or timely issues.  Proprietary presentation accompanies the conference calls

  • annual Executive Forum– attendance to KEMA’s annual gathering senior retail industry leaders

  • client requests – clients enjoy inquiry privileges and access to seasoned retail researchers and analysts for ad hoc research and intelligence requests. 

Sample reports and analysis are available upon request.