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Boosting Cleantech Success

Strategic content to influence, educate, and change outcomes.

  • Advisory Services

    Advisory Services

    Making choices under market uncertainty. Choosing the best path.

    Using the Scenario Analysis process developed by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) and Shell, synthesize the economic, policy, and technology risks and trends.

    Advisory services are delivered via a presentation webinar to executives and their staff.

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  • Executive Briefs

    Writing to create clean energy change.

    How? By convincing buyers to buy your project, the public to understand your firm’s benefits, or legislators and regulators to support clean energy.

    Briefs are often written as Op-Eds under 1000 words, with a clear argument, problem definition, solution, and verifiable evidence supporting the argument and “call-to-action”.

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  • Insights

    Research and analysis on the Clean Energy Economy from the Substack:
    “Jim Walker | Cleantech Adoption”.

    The Substack advocates for the clean energy transition and counters misinformation from the fossil fuel industry.

    Insights include Op-Eds, policy critiques, market analyses, and technology evaluations.

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Sample Client Projects

  • Investment bank evaluations of solar PV projects

    Investment Bank

    For an investment fund, I provided ongoing due diligence, analysis, and research of utility-scale solar PV investments. The project portfolio investment sizes were up to 1,000 MW. Connected the in-house team to attorneys and other service professionals.

  • Close-up view of solar panels outdoors with trees and a cloudy sky in the background.

    Corporate Real Estate

    I provided market and regulatory risk assessments for siting solar PV projects, some with battery systems, at various corporate sites across the US. The project sizes ranged from 5 MW to 200 MW. Reviewed project contracts and financials.

  • Executive advice to help a cleantech company enter the US market,

    Early-Stage Company

    I advised the CEO and Board of Directors of a start-up solar water heating technology company to sell their products in the U.S. The client was located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

  • Presentation to get approval for a set of electric vehicle chargers in a condominium garage in Boston.

    EV Chargers

    I helped obtain funding and arrange the installation of six EV chargers at Flagship Wharf Condominiums in Boston. Eversource (the electric utility) and the MA DEP provided funds.

  • Consultation with the Netherlands' cleantech companies.

    Netherlands Firms

    I met with the CEOs of two cleantech companies, Physee and IBIS Power, to review their market entrance plans for the US. I connected them to potential US customers and funders.

  • White paper on cybersecurity and utilities.

    White Papers

    For Tendo Communications, I wrote Executive Boardroom newsletters to help prospective utility customers learn how Sun’s Internet technology can solve critical business problems.

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