Energy

GPTech’s Energy Practice Area employs engineers, project managers, project feasibility and financing experts, policy analysts, and market assessment professionals to develop efficient, reliable energy solutions that can enhance people’s lives and increase economic opportunities worldwide.

This practice area contributes to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals; particularly, Goal 7, “Affordable and Clean Energy,” Goal 9, “Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure,” and Goal 11, “Sustainable Cities and Communities.”

We specialize in the following areas:

• Assessing distributed energy generation/storage systems to increase energy reliability and resilience for homes, businesses, communities, and power grids while creating economic opportunity;

• Bolstering energy-sector investment to accelerate and scale up nascent energy solutions and drive innovations, such as hydrogen and advanced energy storage, with private-sector investment;

• Enhancing universal energy access to improve the lives and livelihoods of underserved populations;

• Proposing productive use of energy solutions to enhance income and welfare in agriculture, rural enterprise, health, and education sectors; and

• Conducting cost/benefit analysis of energy efficiency technologies and measures to reduce demand for energy supply in homes, businesses, industries, facilities, and military bases.

We offer the following types of technical assistance to international, national, state, county, community, and corporate clients:

• Distributed energy and universal energy access project technical/economic pre-feasibility and feasibility studies.

• Strategic advisory services for energy decision making.

• Program management services for energy projects.

• Develop strategies to attract private-sector financing to energy projects through de-risking, project preparation facilities, and opportunity characterization.

• Conduct market assessments and trade missions to help countries and companies assess project viability and energy technology export potential.

• Model energy resource and generation.

• Assess financing and business models, including public-private partnerships and energy performance contracts.

• Advise on competitive procurement frameworks for energy products and services.

• Conduct energy audits that meet ASHRAE standards.

• Design energy-efficiency and conservation measures.