Energy

Helping energy leaders navigate the transition to a cleaner, smarter, and more resilient future.

The global energy landscape is changing rapidly. As the move to a lower-carbon economy accelerates, organisations must navigate evolving regulations, market volatility, technological disruption, and increasing political and geopolitical uncertainty. Success demands strategic vision, technical excellence, and trusted support.

Oaklin is working at the forefront of the energy transition. We partner with energy companies, governments, and industry organisations to deliver practical solutions that enable a cleaner, more resilient, and digitally connected energy future. By combining deep industry expertise with strategic insight and data-driven innovation, we help clients unlock sustainable growth while enhancing performance and long-term resilience.

Whether you're modernising critical infrastructure, optimising operations, or accelerating decarbonisation initiatives, Oaklin provides the expertise and experience to transform complex challenges into measurable outcomes.

"The quality and professionalism of Oaklin staff is the best I have experienced in my whole career, the team always go above and beyond to provide a first-class service to the client."

Sam Breadner, SSEN Transmission Project Services

Our expertise is wide ranging, with client partnerships across the following areas:

Strategy & Innovation

Helping organisations define future-ready strategies that accelerate innovation, drive sustainable growth, and create long-term competitive advantage.

Commercial Advisory

Supporting informed commercial decisions with market insight, investment analysis, business case development, procurement strategy, and commercial advisory.

Joint Venture & Operating Model Establishment

Enabling multiple organisations, partners, and suppliers to operate as a coordinated enterprise while maintaining alignment with the governance, security, and regulatory requirements.

Project Services

Successfully delivering complex energy and infrastructure programmes with expert project management, governance, PMO, risk management, and delivery assurance.

Technology Delivery

Designing, implementing, and optimising digital solutions that modernise operations, improve efficiency, and enable intelligent, connected energy systems.

Data & AI

Unlocking the value of data through advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, automation, and predictive insights that improve decision-making and operational performance.

Reporting & Analytics

Transforming data into meaningful insights with real-time dashboards, performance reporting, and executive decision support.

M&A

Supporting acquisitions, divestments, and investments with commercial and technical due diligence, integration planning, valuation support, and transaction advisory.

Regulatory Change

Navigating evolving regulatory requirements with confidence through compliance strategies, impact assessments, operating model design, and implementation support.

Case Studies

Mega-project Delivery

Oaklin were engaged to support a joint venture of UK transmission operators execute a portfolio of multi-billion £ transformative project in the Great Grid upgrade. An effective Joint Venture Project function that is scalable, proactive, and collaborative was deemed critical to the success of the JV’s portfolio of projects. Oaklin have led the design and implementation of an integrated set of integral processes and artefacts, built to adapt to the nuances of a complex and high value project. Through current state analysis, requirement and capability development, and embedding change, the JV is set up for success.

M&A

A client with international operations was struggling to make progress with establishing a new joint venture (JV). Oaklin was engaged to assist in setting up the new entity and led the design and implementation of the end-to-end commercial and operational models, whilst overseeing any commercial and legal agreements. Oaklin helped clarify the motivating factors for each party, de-personalised points of contention, and held the collective accountable for the revised agreement. Oaklin supported a range of key technology selections to support the business and created an enduring operating model incorporating the best ways of working from each of the businesses.

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Regulatory Change

Oaklin was engaged by a major UK energy supplier to rapidly navigate a highly complex landscape to respond to a major new regulatory license condition. In just three weeks, a small Oaklin team conducted an intensive options analysis. The Oaklin team rapidly determined success measures and priorities, worked with experts across the business to understand changes required and assessed technology and process solutions that could be implemented in the time available. This culminated in a strategic options analysis and clear recommendation, which carefully considered the costs, risks, implications and strategic value of each potential course of action.

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Digital Technology

Oaklin were engaged by a major energy company to mature the product function of their central Cloud team. Delivery had been impacted by significant demand on technical resources to compensate for poor documentation of business requirements and delivery processes. Oaklin instilled a new product-centric delivery approach in the Cloud Centre of Excellence, defining process, practices and tooling, embedding agile principles and supporting the transition to pro-active demand management and delivery. This included requirements documentation, efficient work scoping and strategy-driven backlog prioritisation. Delivery and launch of two Cloud Platforms was accelerated, evolving into a Platform as a Product enduring state.

Insights

The energy transmission sector is on the front line, urgently planning upgrades to the Grid system to meet projected demand for electricity as the nation transitions to renewable energy. Without a skilled workforce to delivery these projects, there is no energy transition. We explore simple changes that could be made now in the transition to green skills.

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A ‘Big Six’ Energy supplier was facing challenges with a new customer facing website and core platform, as part of their multi-year digital transformation strategy. Oaklin was engaged to lead a large-scale remediation programme to remedy various performance, stability, and usability issues with the new system, and to partner with the client on their digital journey.

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The Labour government have pledged a Net Zero power system by 2030, brought forward by five years compared to the previous Conservative target. We explore how this can be achieved and what the government needs to do now and in the future to become the sales force for change.

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