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 a once-in-a-century transformation of transportation industry.

At the nexus of energy and mobility, Dunsky has been supporting leading utilities, governments and others with their most complex transportation decarbonization projects. Our Mobility team has completed over 60 projects in all 10 provinces and numerous states; from helping clients understand the potential for EV adoption, to business model planning, developing strategies for EV infrastructure, building fleet electrification roadmaps, and more. Our track record of research, policy development and strategic planning helps clients to meet the twin challenges of sustainable transportation: reducing energy demand and shifting to alternative, low-carbon fuels.

Across our mobility work, 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.

We help clients understand the potential for, and pathways to, cost-efficiently reducing GHG emissions from industrial operations. 

Understanding how to slash GHG emissions without harming competitiveness lies at the heart of our Industrial practice. Our team of experts guides clients through the technical, economic, and market opportunities to decarbonize industry. Critically, we do it with a view to reducing emissions, not inadvertently offshoring them.

Our team assesses opportunities principally in the mining, metals, pulp & paper, steel, chemicals and agriculture sectors. Our approaches and solutions are tailored for each industry, and its unique challenges. Whether governments, utilities or industrials, our clients are early movers who understand the need to balance risk with reward, and who care about moving to an efficient, world-class low-carbon industrial economy.

Clean 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 clean 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 storage solutions to address intermittency, is similarly variable.

We help our clients to assess opportunities for clean energy – with an emphasis on both power and gases / liquids, and both central and distributed energy resources (DERs) – 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 clean 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.