Featured Projects
We help energy leaders see clearly and act boldly. Through deep listening, rigorous analytics, and genuine partnership, we turn our clients’ hardest challenges into innovative, custom and defensible strategies that advance equity, resilience, affordability, and a cleaner grid.
Virtual Power Plants: Insights, Profiles and Inventory (2025)
VPP Benchmarking & Intelligence
Based on interviews with more than twenty subject matter experts on VPPs, the Insights into Scaling Virtual Power Plants report and appendix outlines actions that utilities and regulators can take to expand VPPs, organized around successful VPP designs, deployment, and operation. The companion report, Virtual Power Plant Profiles and Inventory describes three conceptual profiles that can be used as a starting point to facilitate clear discussions among regulators, utilities, solution providers, and stakeholders about various VPP strategies. It also includes details on more than 790 demand response programs and net energy metering solar plus battery programs, and 180 VPP programs. The Inventory is provided below as a separate file.
Tillamook County, Oregon Energy Resilience Plan (2026)
Resilience & Reliability, Stakeholder Engagement
Led strategic research and analysis for the development of Tillamook County's first comprehensive Energy Resilience Plan, addressing the county's vulnerability to power outages and energy hazards. Through stakeholder surveys, historical outage analysis, and a four-quadrant geospatial assessment, our team identified a critical "preparedness cliff" — revealing that community readiness drops sharply beyond typical one- to three-day outages, leaving residents and critical facilities exposed during the extended disruptions most likely to occur in a major disaster. The plan delivers geographically differentiated resilience strategies, including targeted infrastructure hardening, neighborhood-based mutual aid networks, and coordinated resilience hub planning, ensuring that investments are tailored to each region's unique risk profile rather than applied uniformly across the county.
Improving Transparency in Electric Distribution System Planning to Support Affordability (2026)
Stakeholder Education, Regulatory Design
This resource identifies opportunities for communities to participate in the distribution system planning process to achieve their energy goals, including affordability. It begins with background information on the distribution system and distribution system planning, and then focuses on topical areas where communities could focus their engagement (e.g., non-wires alternatives, DER forecast, scenario analysis). The report concludes with illustrative examples of how communities have engaged in distribution system planning. The appendix provides procedural guidance on engagement in utility planning processes.
Past Projects
Developed equitable stakeholder engagement processes to identify Highly Impacted Communities and Vulnerable Populations per CETA requirements. Designed engagement findings to inform energy efficiency and demand response actions in Clean Energy Implementation Plans.
Washington CETA Utilities
2025
Designed culturally responsive outreach plan and client navigator framework for PCEF’s Energy Friendly Homes Program, in partnership with Community Energy Project. Built CBO partnerships and embedded accessibility throughout the customer journey — from enrollment to program participation.
Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF)
2025-2026
Developed five representative household consumption profiles to illustrate real-world energy cost impacts across Oregon, supporting equitable, data-informed statewide planning for ODOE.
Oregon Energy Strategy
2024-2025
Northwest Power & Conservation Council 9th Plan
2023-2025
Designed DER strategy, developed demand response and rooftop solar measures and potential.