What we do

At Blackstart, our work goes beyond today’s energy challenge.

We believe it is our responsibility to contribute our expertise to the lasting transformation of the energy sector itself. Our team acts decisively, providing strategic insight and technical expertise to help energy ventures accelerate their impact now. We do this by balancing innovation with rigour, ensuring that progress isn’t delayed, but responsibly powered.

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Our services

We help navigate the increasingly complex set of strategic technical and commercial challenges and enable organisations to succeed with the energy transition.

  • We can support you in establishing the right strategy to position your business to meet future energy requirements.

    Services include:

    • Transition strategy 

    • Business strategy

    • Strategic options analysis

    • Acquisition or disposal strategy

    • Asset and project optimisation strategy

    • Supply and market engagement strategy

    • Strategic engagement with Regulators

    • Emissions reduction strategy

  • Through project and deal development, transactions and due diligence, we can navigate the commercial and regulatory challenges and establish a pathway for effective outcomes.

    Services include:

    • Deal development and support

    • Energy transactions

    • Energy supply strategy and execution

    • Due diligence and options analysis

    • Commercial strategy

    • Energy regulatory and compliance

    • Post deal integration and de-merger

    • Decarbonisation strategy

  • Our team supports your electricity and gas connection strategy with expert guidance on compliance and negotiations, ensuring regulatory adherence aligns with business performance.

    Services include:

    • Connection strategy 

    • Stakeholder / NSP negotiation 

    • Connection applications 

    • Grid modelling 

    • NER compliance

  • We offer end-to-end support from project origination and agreement negotiation to technical assistance for operational readiness.

    Services include:

    • Origination 

    • Agreements 

    • Project development 

    • Technical assurance 

    • Operational readiness

  • With in-house power systems engineering capability, we develop technical concepts and solutions, as well as project governance and procurement services for your projects.

    Services include:

    • Concept development 

    • Specifications and procurement 

    • Project governance 

    • Power engineering 

    • Lifecycle services

  • We empower asset intensive organisations to attain next level performance through tried and tested philosophies, technologies and our deeply experienced team.

    Services include:

    • Strategy and Transformation for Asset Intensive Organisations

    • Asset management planning, strategy and systems

      • Operational excellence and improvement

      • Operational Readiness & turnarounds

    • Performance optimisation

      • Asset Turnarounds

    • Asset Advisory

  • Our world-class offering in process safety provides a proven and pragmatic model for process safety excellence calibrated to your industry, which integrates process safety with asset management and provides performance measurement daily.

    Services list:

    • Organisation wide strategy and roadmapping

    • Industry leading live monitoring software solutions

    • Delivery of uplift programmes in people, processes and technology

    • Extensive Bowtie Library and pragmatic approach

Who we’ve helped

Our success stories

We have experience working with owners and operators of international power and network assets, plus some of the largest energy projects in Australia.  We have also helped businesses across multiple industries to achieve innovative and best practice outcomes for their challenges in energy.

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