PolicyBox® is a simulation and data platform for regulated electricity markets. Allowed returns, price controls and market dynamics, built the way each regulator builds them, across 28+ European markets plus Singapore.
Regulated returns are set by formula, and every regulator's formula is different. PolicyBox implements each covered market's own methodology: its risk-free rate convention, its approach to beta and gearing, its indexation, its control period structure.
Simulation, not just data. The platform goes beyond reporting published determinations. It reconstructs the mechanics behind them, so you can stress assumptions, run counterfactuals and see how allowed returns respond as market inputs move.
The platform draws on live data feeds: government bond yields, market data, regulatory publications and meteorological inputs, refreshed continuously and stored with full history.
Each module reflects how regulators and markets actually work, then extends it with the analysis published documents cannot give you.
Methodology-faithful WACC for every covered market. Risk-free rates, betas, gearing and allowances assembled under each regulator's own framework.
Revenue building blocks and control mechanics simulated across periods, with scenario and sensitivity analysis on the inputs that matter.
Regulatory asset base evolution: additions, depreciation and indexation projected forward under alternative assumptions.
Stochastic simulation of returns and revenues under uncertainty. Full distributions and confidence bands rather than point estimates.
Balancing price analytics with integrated meteorological data, linking system conditions to market outcomes.
Per-market briefs covering the regulatory framework, current determinations and the outlook for the next reset.
IN DEVELOPMENT · Cross-market reset forecasting. Authenticated API access for quantitative workflows is available to portal clients.
The same questions, answered consistently across jurisdictions, on each jurisdiction's own terms.
GB · DACH · NORDICS · BENELUX · IBERIA · CEE · SEE · SINGAPORE + APAC
Benchmark your allowed returns against peers and prepare for the next control period with the regulator's own mechanics.
Assess regulated cash flows and return frameworks consistently across markets before capital is committed.
Compare methodologies internationally and test how alternative choices flow through to bills and returns.
Ground submissions and testimony in reproducible, methodology-faithful analysis.
A working session on the markets you care about, using live platform data rather than slides.
Email ryan@civic-engine.comExisting clients and collaborators can sign in to the secure PolicyBox portal.
Sign inCommercial terms on request. Pilot engagements available.
Civic Engine is an independent UK company building software for regulatory economics. PolicyBox is developed, owned and operated entirely by Civic Engine Ltd.
The company was founded by Dr Ryan Williams, a financial economist working on cost of capital, regulation and energy markets.
PolicyBox supports research at the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, Imperial College London.