Client Services

SPG Consulting provides organizations with the ability to profit from sustainability through innovative alternative and distributed energy deployment strategies.

Identifying Your Needs

Successful investment in a sustainable energy solution, whether that solution is a simple backup equipment replacement or a comprehensive deployment of distributed energy resources, requires an understanding of how to profit from technologies, the economics of energy, and the complex regulatory environment surrounding energy and utilities.

Answering Your Questions

SPG can help your organizations profit through innovative alternative and distributed energy deployment strategies by answering the following questions:

• Can you implement a progressive energy strategy that will provide security for your physical assets, customer base, and business processes?
• Can your company reduce energy costs by exploiting new technologies?
• Can you get the utility or the government to pay you for your investments?
• Can you reduce risk from outages and power quality disruptions?
• Can you enhance your reputation as environmentally progressive?
• Can you generate sustainable returns?

Providing the Key Services

SPG provides the three missing pieces facing large energy users, whether they are real estate developers, colleges and universities, corporate campuses, or manufacturing facilities:

• Strategic advice on identifying, building, and communicating a sustainable energy solution;
• Technology opportunity selection, including sourcing technologies from SPG's own proprietary storehouse of applications as well as mixing and deploying both proprietary and non-proprietary technology assets to yield risk avoidance, security, power quality, and profits over the short, medium, and long term; and
• Project support in building a business case for sustainable energy projects, assembling a team, and selecting and managing vendors.

SPG focuses on strategies and projects that are actionable and practical within a two-year horizon. Our goal is to provide our clients with made-to-order, sustainable, profitable energy solutions.

The SPG Solution

SPG provides the research and consulting services necessary to define an energy strategy and align it with a client's organizational needs, public image, and investment profile; the actual technologies, products, and interfaces required to implement that strategy; and the project support and engineering which are vital to ensuring that technology can be deployed to make the strategy real.

SPG focuses on easily-deployed, profitable technologies, strategies, and projects that are actionable and practical within a two-year horizon.

Upon engagement, SPG will provide strategic alignment support, technology opportunity selection, and project support services as follows:

Strategic: Aligning the organization to harness best practices in sustainability.
The greatest obstacles to moving energy technology forward in the current environment are organizational ignorance and resistance. Every organization has substantial capital commitments as well as ongoing energy expenses. Making even the first steps to a more sustainable approach means convincing the entire organization that to do so is worthwhile and that there are a number of options that will help the company profit from its investments.

SPG can provide the strategic resources that are necessary to align a client's organization with a sustainable approach:

• An executive briefing on what long-term trends in alternative and distributed energy mean for an organization, including market forces and regulatory trends affecting your organization, a discussion of the current organizational state and opportunity gaps, and a quantitative cost-benefit analysis of implementing a new energy strategy.
• An assessment of the client's capability, needs and current energy spending vs. derived value. SPG will identify the easiest opportunities to reduce risks and lower costs, and to work with and apart from utilities.
• Understanding investment alternatives and migration paths to a more sustainable energy portfolio, including building a business case and analyzing current practices and possible improvements.
• Communicating sustainability efforts and strategy effectively to customers and business partners, investors, and to the public, including gaining access to sustainability funds and enabling civic and governmental partnerships.

Tactical: Technology Opportunity Selection
One of SPG's most distinctive characteristics is its ability to actually identify and source the energy technologies required to implement sustainable energy programs. SPG can draw from a stable of proprietary technologies as well as source technologies on the open market using SPG's technology opportunity selection process. In particular, SPG is specialized in deploying technologies that serve to seamlessly and effectively blend distributed energy sources with conventional grid power to maximize energy security, minimize price asymmetries, and ensure optimal power quality. SPG will:

• Scope out and spec a range of technologies that fits a client's infrastructure, energy usage, and environmental and economic constraints, and optimizes a client's relationship with the local utility and regulatory agencies.
• Identify specific product and service capabilities that can deliver to user specifications, either among SPG's own portfolio technologies or on the open market.
• Assemble a portfolio of technologies that will yield short, medium, and long-term benefits and is easy to manage.

Implementation: Project support and process tracking.
SPG recognizes that putting together the right strategy and technologies to enhance physical security, optimize energy use, achieve environmental benefits, and increase a client's overall value is meaningless without the proper implementation. To this end, SPG provides full-service project support and process tracking to ensure that the implementation of a progressive energy strategy is successful and painless to a client's organization. SPG provides a variety of project support services, including:

• Building a business case based on user opportunities in the energy arena
• Assembling a project team
• Designing the RFQ
• Helping to select and manage vendors
• Providing ongoing relationship management, service measurement, and regulatory compliance assistance.

Retaining SPG for your business

Prospective clients should contact us at info@sustainableprofit.com.