Expertise

Data drives innovation and success. Solving problems for utilities, government, and program administrators often requires a specific combination of energy engineering fundamentals and analytical proficiency. We can complete the analyses you need to make effective business decisions.

Analytics, visualization, modelling, and reporting

We can help you make business decisions using custom models or ad-hoc analyses, e.g., billing analyses, regression, etc.

Energy modelling

We can conduct energy modelling for your projects using tools like RETScreen, HOT2000, and others.

Parametric energy modelling

We can use software like HTAP to rapidly model thousands of combinations of building envelope and mechanical system technologies to optimize your building performance.

Evaluation, measurement, and verification (EM&V) activities provide customers with information on the performance of their programs. EM&V can be done for official impact reporting, regulatory compliance, or simply to better understand and improve programs.

Demand response impact evaluation

We can help you understand what to report on and quantify the impacts for you, including cleaning and preparing interval meter data, defining baseline conditions, and calculating the curtailed load from each DR event.

Energy efficiency & electrification impact evaluation

Whether your focus is energy savings, emissions reductions, or reducing customer bills, we can use a variety of best-practice approaches to quantify program impacts and prepare a defensible report that accurately communicates the impact of your programs.

Program process evaluation

We can design and coordinate research to help you understand how participants perceive and engage with a program, evaluate the effectiveness of internal program processes, and recommend changes to reduce costs and improve results.

Project-level EM&V

We can develop an EM&V plan for a specific project, install data loggers, analyze data, and prepare a report that quantifies actual project savings.

Are you focused on GHG reductions? Let us help you understand your current emissions profile and quantify the impacts from past projects or ideas for new ones.

GHG emission inventory

Using industry standard methods like ISO-14064, we can help you understand your current carbon footprint and where there is room for improvement.

Estimating GHG reductions

Have ideas for GHG reduction projects? We can help estimate the impact these projects will have on your Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

EM&V for GHG reduction initiatives

We can help quantify the annual and lifetime GHG emission reductions from a project or program that you’ve implemented.

We have experience planning and forecasting from the measure-level up to the portfolio-level. That can include identifying emerging topics and technologies, modelling a portfolio of programs for a regulatory filing, or something else to fit with your own corporate planning activities.

Program and portfolio design and optimization

We will help you with long-term planning and modelling, optimizing your portfolio to achieve your performance targets and prepare for the future.

Pilot design

We will help you design pilots to meet your corporate objectives. We will lead or support development of those pilots including creating budgets, documentation, and project management tools and processes.

Strategy

We will help you understand how evolving markets and customer needs create risks and opportunities for your measures, programs, or portfolio.

The energy transition requires complex interactions between policies, codes, standards, and programs. With over 25 years of combined experience, we can help you create well-considered, effective policies.

Codes and standards

We can help you navigate the latest changes to the National Building Code of Canada (NBC); that can include high-level policy development, low-level compliance processes and training, and everything in between.

Regulatory strategy and compliance

We can help you develop a strategy for regulatory matters that achieves your objectives, and help you develop an approach to implementing any regulatory directives.

Regulatory application development & IR support

We can help you write or edit regulatory applications, prepare evidence, draft responses to Information Requests (IRs), and draft IRs to other intervenors.

Policy development, review, and assessment

We can help you evaluate or design policy to achieve your energy transition objectives through a combination of technical analyses, industry best-practices, stakeholder engagement, and your specific regional directives or mandates.

Benefit-cost analysis

We can help you design and implement a benefit-cost analysis (BCA) test based on the National Standard Practice Manual or your own regionally-specific criteria. We can also help flesh out your BCA analysis by including perspectives in addition to your primary test, such as rate and bill impact analyses, isolation of impacts for low-income customers or other groups, and utility payback analyses.

We can help you with your specific research objectives.

Primary research

We can help you with primary research and field work, which may include customer and peer surveys, interviews, focus groups, and more, depending on your needs.

Secondary research

We can help you with secondary research, e.g., jurisdictional scans and literature reviews.

Field studies for new technologies

We can help you understand the performance of new technologies by designing an M&V plan, specifying equipment, working with partners in the field to collect data, and analyzing the results.

Think we could help your team get up to speed quickly on some aspect of the DSM industry? Let us design and deliver a custom staff training program for you.