

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 + Industry, Energy, and Mobility. 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 and industry offer large-scale opportunities to achieve energy and carbon goals, by improving energy efficiency, managing peak demand, switching to low-carbon fuels and revisiting equipment and processes.
At Dunsky, we help our clients to understand – and effectively exploit – the breadth of these demand-side energy resources (DERs) across residential, commercial and institutional buildings, as well as the full array of both light and heavy industry.
We notably assess the costs, savings, cost-effectiveness, and market opportunity for hundreds of technical and behavioural 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 strategies designed to that end.
In all cases, we bring a unique combination of deep technical expertise, market and regulatory knowledge, solid analytics (including sophisticated models), and years of experience to the task.
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.
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.