Four kinds of work.

You can buy them one at a time, combine them, or keep us on retainer through a legislative session or a docket.

Research and audience briefings

For executive directors, boards, program leads, funders, coalition partners and public officials who must understand an energy or data center issue well enough to decide, fund, vote or speak.

Issue assessment. A sourced analysis of the policy, regulatory, technical and political landscape on one question. Examples: large load tariffs, water for data center cooling, utility cost allocation and siting authority.
Leadership or donor briefing. A short memo or deck built for a board, executive team or funder meeting.
Plain language explainer. A one page summary, FAQ, long read or webinar that makes a technical issue clear to the public.
Constituency presentation. A presentation for your members, volunteers or community, with speaker notes and slides you can use again.

We ask first: What decision or conversation must this material support? The answer sets the length, depth, format and tone, so you get a two page memo when that is what you need.

Community engagement and campaign delivery

For advocacy nonprofits, coalitions, ballot initiative committees, and local and tribal governments that must move a specific audience toward a specific result.

Stakeholder map. Who decides, who influences, who is affected and where each stands today.
Interviews and listening sessions. Structured conversations with residents, ratepayers, landowners, local officials and partners, with a summary of what we heard.
Volunteer and partner coordination. Recruitment, training, task design and coalition logistics, including signature gathering and field plans.
Messaging. A core narrative, talking points for each audience, press releases, public comment templates and testimony.
Action plan. A plan tied to real decision points such as hearings, filing deadlines, commission votes and session calendars, with owners and measures.

We ask first: Which audience must you reach, and what should change as a result?

Support for technical project teams

For clean energy developers, resilience and microgrid teams, engineering and planning firms, and public agencies whose technical work is covered but whose community work is not.

Translation of findings. Engineering studies, interconnection analyses and cost models turned into material that stakeholders and decision makers can understand and respond to.
Community materials. Project explainers, FAQs, visuals and public meeting content that are accurate and fit the place.
Stakeholder facilitation. We design and run stakeholder discussions, advisory groups and public sessions, and we keep the record.
Decision tracking. A clear log of what was decided, by whom, on what basis, and what is still open.

How this fits: Your technical partner owns the analysis. We own the link between that analysis and the public, the permitting authority and the project’s stakeholders.

Policy development and legislation drafting

For advocacy nonprofits, coalitions, funders, and local and tribal governments that need a clear policy proposal, model bill language or testimony on an energy, water or data center issue.

Policy options memo. A sourced comparison of the policy choices on one question, with the tradeoffs, the likely costs and who would pay them.
Precedent review. How other states, utilities and counties wrote similar rules, and what happened after they took effect.
Model legislation and ordinances. Draft bill or ordinance language with a section by section summary, for your organization to adapt and use.
Testimony and comment preparation. Draft written testimony, public comments and talking points for your staff, members or experts to deliver.

We ask first: What problem must the policy solve, and who will carry it forward?

How this fits: We research, design and draft. Your organization decides how to use the work and presents it. We do not contact lawmakers or lobby on your behalf.

Attorney review: An attorney reviews any draft bill or ordinance language before we deliver it.

Ways to work together

Monthly retainer. Standing capacity through a session or a docket, for three to twelve months.
Project. A fixed fee for a defined briefing, assessment, campaign plan or presentation.
Facilitation day. A day rate for listening sessions, workshops and trainings, plus travel.
Partner subcontract. A defined community scope inside an engineering or planning firm’s proposal.
Grant funded capacity. Work scoped to a funder’s grant period and reporting needs.

How we work

Discovery. We find the decision, conversation or audience the work must serve, and we confirm the place, calendar and limits.
Scope. We agree on deliverables and timeline. On technical projects, we agree on how our work fits the engineering scope.
Research and mapping. We read the record, map the stakeholders and find the questions that matter.
Draft and test. We produce the materials and test them with part of the intended audience when we can.
Deliver and equip. We hand over the work with the training, templates and decision log your team needs to continue.
Review. We look at what changed, what the next decision point is, and whether more support makes sense.

What we do not do

We do not lobby. When a client needs a registered lobbyist, we refer them to one. Legal and engineering work stays with attorneys and engineers.