Our Services
We solve the hardest climate and clean energy problems by combining technical precision and creative problem-solving to cut through policy, regulatory, and market complexity.
We help innovators, developers, corporations, and civil society navigate energy policy and politics in Washington, DC and across the country to develop new policies, enter new markets, and create change.
We help climate and clean energy funders identify opportunities, align mission with impact, and fund with confidence. We work with established philanthropies, new entrants, and funder collaboratives.
We help companies and advocates have their voices heard in Washington and statehouses across the country.
We help organizations build thriving, sustainable businesses through business planning, financial management, business pipeline development, budgeting, and everything in between.
We help founders focus on their mission by providing startup and operational support for nonprofits, for-profit, and hybrid organizations. For organizational formation, board management, proposals, contracts, compliance, and business systems: we’ve got you covered.
Our Capabilities
Research and analysis
Policy development
Strategic planning
Philanthropic advising
Field, sector, and funding landscape analysis
Funding opportunity assessment
Funder coordination
Event facilitation
Testimony and briefings
Government affairs
High-level speaking engagements
Coalition management
Project implementation and oversight
Board support
Contract management
Grant compliance
Technology infrastructure support
Fundraising strategy
Budgeting and financial management
Proposal development
Advocacy strategy
Focus Areas
Federal Policy
It’s harder than ever to maintain consistent, predictable, and productive policy in Washington – but it is no less critical. We help clients make the most of a challenging federal policymaking environment.
Clean Energy Innovation
America led global energy innovation in the 20th century, but it’s now losing the race in the 21st. We work to enhance our nation’s ability to innovate in the clean energy sector and maximize the economic, national security, and environmental benefits of new processes and technologies.
Energy Systems & Deployment
Business and policy strategies that withstand reality must reflect the enormous technological, institutional, and policy complexity of our modern energy system. We help clients develop strategies that incorporate a systems-level view of the industry.
Bipartisan Engagement
No political party has a monopoly on credibility and care for our country and its economic future. We work with politicians, funders, and advocates across the aisle to forge robust strategies that withstand the ever-changing political winds.
State Policy
Policy solutions and political campaigns must be as diverse as the statehouses across the country. We help diagnose and solve state-specific policy and advocacy challenges for our clients, driven by research, analysis, and deep collaborator networks.
Coalitions
Progress requires political power, and political power requires coalitions. We know how to leverage community, shared interest, and self concern to get things done.
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Insights
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For Policy Success, Now Is the Time for “Visionary” Capital
Between building the best models and getting it all to market, an entrepreneur can become a billionaire, or a business can flounder. Just as in the market, successful policy requires upfront investment. It needs not venture but “visionary” capital.
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Signing Ceremonies Are the Easy Part
To meet our ambition in American innovation, to deploy clean energy, and to expand economic growth in the United States, we’re going to need a lot of new ideas. The Thriving Economy Project is one effort to identify what could – and what should – work better in government.
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The State-Level Strategy for Meeting Energy Demand
For state policymakers, one avenue for building more energy generation is the passage of siting and permitting legislation – which determines whether energy projects get built and how quickly they can break ground. Our team got to work tracking them.