Practice Areas
The transition to clean energy offers great opportunity for innovation and growth, for return on investment and employment. But the clean energy space is fraught with challenges as a result of the significant – if necessary – involvement of regulatory and legislative bodies.
Opportunities created by new technologies and new services have the potential to behave like so many other transformational consumer goods of the last several decades. However, to succeed in this moment, companies must understand the impact of taxpayer- and ratepayer-funded incentives, complex rulemaking by a host of agencies, and the inherent relationships between energy providers and their customers.
It also helps to have lessons learned over the last generation of customer energy programs, to guide the decisions we make, and to predict consumer behavior trends in this new energy economy.
Energy Efficiency
The ETA team has spent the last several decades working to deploy energy efficiency as a resource. This has included deployment of new technologies and controls in buildings, installation of distributed generation and other.
The result has been a more cost effective expansion of our energy and power systems as we have driven energy productivity improvements, lowered customer costs and strengthen the US economy.
Transportation Electrification
As the US advances toward its ambitious goals for electrified transportation, ETA has been at the forefront of innovative solutions and business models to facilitate the cost-effective transition away from fossil fuels. Our team has specialized in driving at-home charging solutions for everyone, including multifamily dwellers and justice community residents.
We leverage the available infrastructure to deliver cost-effective CaaS with high customer satisfaction.
Renewables & Storage
As regulations evolve, and costs of renewable power generation come down, eta is working with providers delivering both grid-scale and distributed renewables. Designing these solutions to work in concert with storage will play a critical role in our ability to decarbonize our economy.
Coordination between the electrification of end uses and the time and location of renewables is at the heart of developing the grid of the future.
Utility Programs
The ETA team’s substantial utility sector experience includes the design and implementation of customer service programs across various distributed energy resources. Our innovation in performance-based incentives and real-time energy monitoring changed the way that energy efficiency programs are delivered.
We are working with utility partners today on bringing the benefits of performance-based incentives to EV charging infrastructure programs.