Econova Consulting helps governments, regulators, utilities, and development partners make better pricing, investment, and policy decisions through rigorous analysis and practical implementation support.
Led by Prashant Sarup, Econova Consulting works at the intersection of energy policy, infrastructure pricing, market reform, and analytical modelling across the Pacific and Australia.
The work is designed to be technically robust and usable by decision makers: transparent models, clear policy logic, and recommendations that account for institutional capacity and local market realities.
Assignments span tariff design, cost-of-service modelling, petroleum pricing, regulatory frameworks, investment analysis, and energy statistics systems.
The goal is not a beautiful model that lives on a shelf. The goal is advice that clients can defend, update, and implement.
Models are built to test options, expose trade-offs, and support transparent pricing and policy decisions.
Recommendations consider legislation, institutional capacity, stakeholder incentives, and implementation constraints.
Work products are designed so clients can maintain the analysis and use it beyond a single engagement.
A focused set of services across pricing, policy, market design, and analytical systems.
Electricity tariff reviews, cost-of-service models, tariff methodology development, and IPP rate assessments.
Revenue requirement models, capex and opex review, affordability testing, and long-term sustainability analysis.
Import parity pricing, MOPS benchmark analysis, LPG pricing regulation, and downstream market reviews.
Energy balances, validation frameworks, national reporting systems, and alignment with SDG7, IEA, and UNFCCC standards.
Competition assessments, licensing frameworks, compliance review, and market liberalisation strategy.
Public transport fares, postal tariffs, broadband access regulation, and wider infrastructure pricing assessments.
A growing set of public models and dashboards demonstrating practical analysis with real-world data.
A public model for exploring price drivers, benchmarks, and scenario effects in regulated energy markets.
Discuss the modelA planned dashboard for comparing energy and infrastructure indicators across selected Pacific markets.
Register interestGeneration, network pricing, tariff reform, investment assessment, renewables integration, and utility regulation.
Petroleum price monitoring, import parity pricing, LPG regulation, and downstream market analysis.
Pricing frameworks, revenue adequacy, institutional design, and infrastructure affordability assessment.
Market review, access pricing, broadband policy, competition assessment, and regulatory compliance.
Perspectives on regulatory reform, energy economics, and market design across the Pacific and beyond.
Why credit ratings matter for Pacific Island countries and their clean-energy future.
Vanuatu's April 2026 diesel shock and the hidden fiscal cost of tariff suppression in Pacific energy systems.
A plain-language guide to VEP, VAT and VIP pricing, and what your bill means under the FCCC's interim fuel surcharge authorisation.
Comparing regulatory approaches for Pacific utilities and what can be learned from other markets.
Whether you need regulatory advisory, economic modelling, or a strategic partner for energy sector reform, I would welcome a conversation.