How advisory services are powering Australia’s energy shift
07 Jul 2025
As Australia ramps up its commitment towards ambitious net-zero goals, organisations leading the energy infrastructure transformation are leaning heavily on advisory services to navigate the ever-increasingly complex project landscape.
From early-stage feasibility and scoping through to grid connection and deployment, skilled guidance is emerging as a critical factor as we work towards modernising our energy infrastructure.
With emerging technologies, shifting regulatory frameworks, and sustainability a clear priority, trusted advisors are playing a vital role in minimising risk, reducing costs, and enabling more strategic decision-making at every turn. Advisory services are enabling smoother integration of renewables, modernisation of the energy systems, and smarter use of customer and distributed energy resources.
Yurika’s goal is to help businesses build future-fit electrical infrastructure, providing ongoing support and guidance throughout the process.
“We’re starting to see a real shift. More businesses are stepping away from traditional energy models in favour of more resilient, sustainable networks – and they want trusted experience and guidance to help get them there”.
At the front end, feasibility assessments – including engineering-led site assessments, environmental impact studies, and renewable resource analysis are among the most sought-after services. Particularly as developers explore the viability of proposed solar, wind, battery energy storage or other hybrid projects.
“Early insights from these types of assessments help shape smarter investment decisions and minimise costly setbacks down the line,” said Evan.
As projects progress, detailed design and modelling services come into play. This helps increase commercial certainty, manage the grid connection process, integrate renewable and hybrid technologies with confidence, and support high quality engineering and project delivery outcomes.
“With Australia’s ageing grid and evolving regulatory frameworks, we’re finding grid connection advisory services are definitely in high demand. They help ensure projects can connect efficiently and compliantly to national or local networks,” said Evan.
Financial feasibility assessments are another crucial checkpoint, helping proponents understand project economics, return on investment, and potential funding mechanisms. With government incentives and commercial offtake agreements often in play, clarity here can make or break a project’s momentum.
For smaller-scale solar and battery projects under 5MW, Yurika’s Manager Engineering Product Development, Dean Condon, highlights the growing demand for techno-financial advisory. These services use discounted cash flow modelling to compare technical options, accounting for capital and operational costs, as well as potential revenue from both behind-the-meter and front of the meter markets.
“Our more advanced tools – like sensitivity*, scenario** and probabilistic*** analysis – are helping our customers quantify uncertainty, enabling them to make more informed and confident decisions,” said Dean.
As plans move closer to reality, demand also grows for metering strategy and compliance advisory services, especially in large-scale generation, behind-the-meter, and embedded network scenarios.
Meanwhile, telecommunications infrastructure – once an afterthought – is now central to smart energy systems. Secure, high-speed communications enable real-time data, remote monitoring, and scalable energy management, supported by telecoms-specific advisory services.
With Australia’s energy transition intensifying, Yurika is ready and here to help deliver it.
“Our advisors aren’t just technical experts, they’re strategic partners helping to deliver more resilient, future-ready infrastructure,” said Evan.
“As we watch our projects move from concept to connection, we’re really proud of the expert guidance we’re able to deliver and continue to see these services as a critical part of success in navigating the complexities of the energy transition.”
Footer notes:
*Sensitivity analysis – Examines how key variables such as front-of-meter value, behind-the-meter value, Capex, and operational costs fluctuate within a ±20% range.
**Scenario analysis – Develops multiple potential energy scenarios, comparing them against the base case.
***Probabilistic analysis – Uses simulation methods to assess how uncertain inputs influence output results through a risk-based probability framework.
