Necessity is the mother of innovation
“We find that smart companies now treat sustainability as
innovation’s new frontier.” —Harvard Business Review
The September 2009 issue of the Harvard Business Review advises, “It’s tempting to adhere to the lowest environmental standards for as long as possible. However, it’s smart to comply with the most stringent rules, and to do so before they are enforced. This yields substantial first-mover advantages in terms of fostering innovations.”
AEI began providing carbon management services to institutional clients engaged in utility-scale expansions and major energy source transitions, developing a risk management decision process and project implementation approach based on experienced market projection, insightful regulatory analysis, expert technical verification, and comprehensive opportunity assessment. The flexible application of these capabilities produces customized long-term strategies, fundamentally robust thus soundly adaptable to changing circumstances, establishing a confident basis for subsequent energy- and technology-related investments.
AEI carbon management services scale to long-term support and can accommodate phased scheduling. We develop the informational bases for decisions, provide decision support and implementation, and ongoing assessments as the basis for adjustment or revision.
Carbon Planning & Consulting
- Energy market analysis and forecasts (commodity price)
- Carbon profile assessment (inventory)
- Regulatory risk analysis
- Fuel mix evaluation
- Supply-side technology assessment
- Demand-side technology assessment and energy modeling
- Energy efficiency optimization for new construction
- Life cycle analysis
- Decision structuring
- Procurement support
- Execution-ready planning
- Performance verification
Project Management
- Owner’s representatives
- Ongoing decision support
- RFP development and proposal analysis
- Contract development and negotiation
- Program management
- Stakeholder engagement
- Integrated delivery
- Construction management
