What's standing between your energy plan and a funded project?
We help you close the gap.
We specialize in feasibility studies, distributed energy (DER) aggregation, and project structuring — community-scale work delivered with utility-grade rigor
Services built for community energy development.
Technical & Financial Feasibility Studies
Rigorous feasibility studies for solar, battery storage, wind, and district energy projects — combining technical assessment with financial modelling and funding-pathway analysis.
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Generation technology screening & site feasibility
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Financial modelling
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Funding analysis
DER Aggregation & Virtual Power Plant Feasibility
Identify and model the demand-response and virtual power plant (VPP) potential within a community — turning distributed assets like solar, wind, and batteries into a coordinated grid resource.
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Load-flexibility mapping using smart-meter data
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Battery size optimization
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Revenue-stacking analysis
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DER management system (DERMS) integration
Built for the people driving local energy change.
Municipalities & Towns
Move from energy plans and net-zero commitments to funded, built generation assets — with the technical and financial scaffolding to get there.
Community Organizations & Co-Ops
Community groups, housing co-ops, and non-profits developing shared renewables, or building-level clean energy.
Indigenous Communities
Supporting First Nations and Mi'kmaw communities pursuing energy sovereignty — from off-grid microgrids to equity participation in grid-connected projects.
Post-Secondary Institutions
Structuring on-site generation, storage, and district energy modernization for campuses with sustainability commitments.
Developers
Rigorous feasibility, regulatory pathway analysis, and funding strategy before you commit capital to full development.
Electric Utilities
Feasibility and regulatory analysis to support board and council decisions on renewable generation, storage, and DER programs.
From idea to investment-ready.
We work alongside you from the earliest conversations through to a project that can attract financing — practical, structured, and grounded in regulatory and funding context.
Step 1
Landscape Assessment
Understand your existing energy assets, consumption data, regulatory context, and generation aspirations. Identify the highest-value opportunities.
Step 2
Technical Pre-Feasibility
Screen technologies, sites, and business models to find what's viable and financially interesting before committing to a full study.
Step 3
Financial and Funding Modelling
Model project economics, identify the funding stack (e.g. federal, provincial, Canada Infrastructure Bank), and structure ownership and financing.
Step 4
Investment-Ready Package
Deliver the study, financial model, funding-application support, and stakeholder materials to take to council, board, or financiers.
Senior-led, by design.
You work directly with the advisor doing the analysis — not a rotating team of juniors. The person scoping your feasibility study is the person building the financial model and sitting across from your council. For larger engagements, we assemble a network of specialist partners to fit the project, rather than carrying overhead you'd end up paying for.
Utility-grade rigor, at community scale.
Barrett Energy's community advisory is grounded in enterprise-level utility transformation — grid modernization, distributed energy resource, and artificial intelligence programs for system operators and major utilities. That's the rigor we now bring to municipal, Indigenous, and community-scale projects.
IESO Nova Scotia
Grid modernization · control centre development
Barrett Energy supported the development of the organization's business plan and managed the requests for proposals (RFPs) tied to its control centre development phase.​
Logic 20/20 Inc.
In support of a large electric & gas utility, northeast US
Barrett Energy developed a Distributed System Operator (DSO) maturity plan, financial model, and change management plan for a large electric and gas utility in the northeast US.
The engagement also spanned the utility's AI initiatives — building business cases, scoping opportunities to improve operational efficiency, and supporting implementation across its electric and gas businesses.