Global energy demand is increasing exponentially, but future energy supply faces a host of challenges. From securing access to sufficient fuel sources to mitigating the environmental impacts from energy use while ensuring developing economies are able to support their economic growth, the issues surrounding global energy supply and use are, to put it mildly, daunting. But while balancing environmental concerns with the critical need for economic growth and it’s ability to improve the lives of vast numbers of people may seem impossible, Pinyon believes that human ingenuity and our ability to adapt quickly will ultimately provide workable, long-term solutions.

To this end, we work with public and private sector organizations that seek – broadly – to shape the future of energy through innovation, market mechanisms, and sound policy. Our energy practice addresses the major issues facing providers, innovators, policy-makers, consumers, regulators, and markets, including:

• The development and adoption of renewable energy sources
• Global energy markets
• User-centered energy technologies (metering, prioritizing, market development and support)
• Smart-grid/infrastructure development
• Climate change, adaptation, and new opportunities
• Social practice and new markets
• Resource constraints and next generation planning
• Efficiency, urban development, and use patterns
• Policy and social integration

We help our clients: navigate the data to present clearer arguments to stakeholders and lawmakers; evaluate feasibility and scalability of new technologies; examine emerging social and cultural trends as part of build/no-build analysis; collaborate with senior management in developing corporate-wide policies and public-facing messaging around efficiency and mitigation efforts; evaluate and model industrial bases for low-carbon technologies production; developed long-term energy sustainability plans, and more.

Representative work

Modeling and representation of the implications of transportation energy policy choices; assessment of the lifecycle impact of biofuels; global supply chain evaluation and future planning; corporate strategic planning around legislative initiatives.

Read more at Insight from Pinyon Energy