Our Services

Helping clients leverage demand-side management (DSM) opportunities

LEI provides our clients with insights, partnerships and know-how to overcome technical, regulatory, and marketing challenges in the end-use energy efficiency domain.

Through their engagements with LEI, our clients enable their customers to achieve significant energy and cost savings, and increased productivity, comfort, health and safety. LEI client projects also generate enduring environmental benefits by mitigating global climate change.

Our services for utilities, technology companies, and research institutions include:

Assessments

Client and partner needs assessments to guide optimal use of LEI’s capabilities
DSM market opportunity assessments, ranging from targeted to comprehensive
Technology and market analysis for DSM product and service development and introduction, program design, and investment assessment

Education

Instruction on the perspectives and values of DSM stakeholders, including utilities, government agencies, technology companies, research institutions, and investors
Training and support focused on understanding regulatory and utility decision-making processes
Goal-oriented coaching to expand our clients’ end-use efficiency, demand response, and customer-facing smart grid capabilities

Partnerships

Targeted alliance-building to foster collaboration and create energy end-use opportunities
Charrettes (multi-disciplinary brainstorming workshops) that bring together expert teams to generate breakthrough ideas in DSM business and technology

Strategy

Business development approaches that blend ingenuity and common sense, ranging from high-level frameworks to detailed implementation plans
Methodologies for achieving competitive advantage in the end-use efficiency ecosystem
Planning and design for new utility DSM programs, review and enhancements of existing programs, and guidance to drive successful implementation.

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DSM and energy efficiency have reached the tipping point
- Federal and state government policies are promoting innovation by driving a new era of energy efficiency investment
- North American utilities are collectively spending $7.5 billion annually on DSM projects and subsidies
- Consumer demand is increasing for efficient products and services, and the associated cost savings and non-monetary benefits
- Energy efficiency attracted a record $1.05 billion of VC investment in 2010, and mature DSM companies are launching IPOs
- Opportunities for DSM entrepreneurs and technologists are escalating in response to all of these factors
What is… Ecosystem?
(e•co•sys•tem) noun
A community of organisms, their physical environment, and the interdependent relationships among them, all of which comprise a unified whole.

End-use Efficiency Ecosystem refers to the community of utilities, government, regulatory agencies, consultants, NGOs, energy end-users and others that interacts to drive demand-side management (DSM) products and services into the market.