Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors

We focus on three key pillars of sustainable energy.

The world’s energy systems are evolving, and our clients play a key role in accelerating that change. To do so effectively, they turn to our expertise in three broad areas: Buildings, Renewables (and storage), and Clean Mobility (electric and others). We also tie it all together with comprehensive clean energy analysis and counsel.

In each of these areas – and across the clean energy transition – our team can help quantify opportunities, design strategies to achieve clean energy goals, and both measure and continuously improve performance.

Buildings
Renewables
Mobility

Buildings offer large-scale opportunities to improve energy efficiency, reduce peak demand, switch fuel types and achieve energy and climate goals at the lowest possible cost. At Dunsky, we help our clients to understand – and effectively exploit – the breadth of demand-side energy resources (DERs) available in homes and buildings.

We assess the costs, savings, cost-effectiveness, and market opportunity for hundreds of options across every sector and market segment; we design market, program, and regulatory strategies that accelerate real-world adoption; and we evaluate the effectiveness of programs designed to that end. In all cases, we bring market research, solid analytics and years of experience to the task.

The team was collaborative, knowledgeable and always available to help us. The entire team has extensive North American expertise and credibility.

Manager, Energy Management Services
Philippe combines intellectual rigour with an ability to find practical solutions adapted to business realities.

Director, Regulation & Planning
Excellent skill-sets and expertise. Great team and coordination throughout project. Thank you for the great work over the past few months and the excellent final product.

Coordinator, Energy Efficiency Programs
Dunsky is a quick study. They fully understood what we needed, and they delivered. They are professionals and the project landed on-time and on-budget.

Project Manager
Dunsky has provided us with critical research and insightful analysis for some of our most strategic projects. We’re glad we can count on you to inform our next generation of programs and policies.

Executive Director
The Dunsky team did an excellent job. They produced a robust analysis and model, and were particularly responsive.

Planning & Evaluation Manager
Philippe is the guy you want on your team – his expertise is deep and broad, and he is an absolute delight to work with. His team was instrumental in developing Efficiency Maine’s first DSM plan.

Vice-Chair

Sample Projects

Buildings
Renewables
Mobility

Decarbonising Quebec’s Economy: Results of an Unprecedented Study

Dunsky is pleased to present the results of a large study commissioned by the Government of Quebec on decarbonizing the province’s economy (see...

Buildings
Opportunity

Idaho’s Gas Savings Potential

Dunsky recently completed an energy efficiency potential study for the Intermountain Gas Company (IGC)—the natural gas utility serving some 350,000...

Buildings
Strategy

Lowe’s : Boosting Efficiency at the World’s #2 Hardware Retailer

When Lowe’s decided to improve the energy efficiency of their operations, they turned to the Dunsky team. Across a fleet of over 400 stores, we developed a plan that...

Renewable energy – and its enabler, storage – is critical to achieving a sustainable energy future. And though we have a long way to go, the transition to solar, wind, biomass, biofuels and other renewable energy resources, is now well underway. Yet renewables are not a foregone conclusion – their ability to compete and grow market share can vary significantly across geographic regions, regulatory frameworks and government policies. Meanwhile, the need for non-grid storage solutions to address intermittency, is similarly variable.

We help our clients to assess opportunities for renewable energy – with an emphasis on demand-side (or “distributed”) renewable resources – and to develop programs and policies to support them effectively, and cost-efficiently. To this end, we use our experience with the full range of renewable energy and storage options – along with proprietary models that provide deep, location-specific insights – to determine what is needed to move the needle and achieve defined goals.

Our work includes assessing technical issues, resource potential and markets; designing voluntary programs (incentives, financing and others); building realistic business cases; and advising on regulatory mechanisms and policies.

Excellent work. Easy to read, and charts illustrate the points. It sets up the right conversation about our policy choices going forward to achieve our goals.

Secretary of Energy
We felt that Dunsky was fully committed; that this was not just “another job” to them.

Project Engineer, Environmental & Corporate Initiatives
Dunsky staff are knowledgeable, professional and produce high quality products. Their customer service also stands out. This combination is not easy to find.

Director of Lighting Programs
Dunsky brings well-respected advice and very in-depth knowledge.

Executive Director
The team delivered clear, well structured information. We (also) greatly appreciated the quick turn around time.

Director of Energy, North America
Thanks for your great presentation and wonderful report – it has been incredibly useful.

Residential Program Manager
Philippe provides incredible value to his clients, (including) extremely sophisticated knowledge of demand-side management.

Director, Texas Efficiency Programs

Sample Projects

Renewables
Opportunity

Solar Market Outlook in Nova Scotia

After a number of years of moderate but steady growth, the Nova Scotia residential solar market surged last year with the arrival of Efficiency Nova...

Renewables
Mobility
Opportunity

EVs + PVs: A Holistic DER View

Electric vehicles (EVs) and solar power (PV) are often considered in silos. But as part of its long-term grid transformation strategy, our client, ENMAX Power, wanted...

Renewables
Strategy

From Diesel to Green: An Energy Plan for NunatuKavut Communities

The Nunacor Development Corporation—the business development arm of NunatuKavut—recently engaged Dunsky to help transition NunatuKavut’s 10 indigenous...

Moving people and things can use anywhere between a quarter and a third of all energy consumed in a given region – and it can emit the same share of greenhouse gases. Simply put, there can be no sustainable energy future without sustainable mobility. Thankfully, recent technological advances, combined with stricter government regulation and generational shifts in consumer preferences, are opening the door to an important evolution in the transportation industry.

At the nexus of energy and mobility, Dunsky is well-positioned to support our clients’ needs. Our emphasis is on the twin challenges of sustainable transportation: reducing energy demand (through improved fuel efficiency, an array of new “shared mobility” services and platforms, and non-vehicle alternatives), and shifting to alternative, low-carbon fuels (including, but not limited to, electric vehicles).

In all cases, we help our clients understand the options, build business cases, address regulatory barriers, and design both regulatory and market-based strategies aimed at accelerating the advent of sustainable mobility. Our work, which encompasses market, economic and technology facets, further extends to electricity storage, grid integration of electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, pricing and more.

Dunsky staff members are professional and knowledgeable. We were particularly impressed with their availability, willingness to address our questions, and ability to work within the allocated budget and time constraints.

Environmental Technologist
Team was proactive, always available and willing to help.

Compliance Lead
Excellent work. Easy to read, and charts illustrate the points. It sets up the right conversation about our policy choices going forward to achieve our goals.

Secretary of Energy
Dunsky’s reputation as a leading consultant in the industry is warranted. In addition to providing a sound work product, the Dunsky brand strengthened our project. We absolutely recommend them.

Program Director
The Dunsky team did an excellent job. They produced a robust analysis and model, and were particularly responsive.

Planning & Evaluation Manager
I recommend Dunsky’s services to my colleagues. They take care to listen, build client relationships based on trust and respect, and excel at communicating complex concepts. Their work is always solid.

Chief Technology Officer
Dunsky’s experience and insight is excellent. Their written communications were very clear; presentations and working sessions were effective. They have great interpersonal skills too!

VP Programs & Partnerships
You delivered above and beyond expectations, and demonstrated very strong market knowledge and expertise. I absolutely recommend Dunsky!

Director of Energy
Content, knowledge and communication style second to none in the industry.

Executive Director

Sample Projects

Mobility

Introducing E-FLEETᵀᴹ – Dunsky’s Fleet Electrification Optimization Service

As leaders in the development of electric vehicle adoption for clients across North America, Dunsky is proud to introduce a new service aimed at helping governments,...

Mobility
Strategy

EV Infrastructure Deployment in North Vancouver

In recent years, the City of North Vancouver has begun taking significant steps to ease adoption of electric vehicles. This past summer, they hired the Dunsky team to...

Mobility
Opportunity

Introducing EVA: Dunsky’s EV forecast model helping utilities and governments plan for (and electrify) the future

As battery costs fall and electric vehicle adoption grows, governments and utilities are looking to understand how they can accelerate market uptake, while managing peak...

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