Advisory Services
Working with Terenc is an ongoing relationship, not a one-off report. We sit on your side of the table as an independent advisor: no equipment to sell, no construction to manage, no referral fees. You get senior judgment you can put in front of a board, a funder, or a bond advisor, on a cadence that fits how your decisions actually get made.
Practice Areas
Each practice area is led by a principal with deep standing in the field. One is live today.
Energy and Infrastructure
Led by Chris Ball
Independent advisory for rural electric cooperatives, small-town utilities, and the communities they serve. These are strong systems that the larger firms and vendors are too busy to show up for. We do.
DER and Distributed Energy Integration
Rooftop solar, storage, and member-owned generation are arriving on systems that were never designed to absorb them. We help you decide what to interconnect, on what terms, and how to protect reliability and cost recovery while you do it.
Grid Hardening and Resilience
Aging lines and harder weather meet limited capital, so every hardening dollar has to be the right one. We help you target investment where it buys the most reliability and tells the strongest story to a board, a regulator, or a federal reviewer.
Wholesale Power and Contract Strategy
Power supply contracts and MISO participation shape your costs for years, yet the terms are easy to accept and hard to question. We give you an independent read on renewals, generation portfolio choices, and where your leverage actually sits.
Rate Design and Cost Recovery
Flat load, new DER, and rising costs strain rate structures built for a steadier world. We help you design rates that recover what the system needs, hold up under scrutiny, and stay fair to the members and ratepayers who carry them.
Federal Program Navigation
IRA, IIJA, and USDA programs put real capital within reach of small systems, but the application and compliance burden assumes grants staff you do not have. We help you find the programs that fit, build fundable applications, and stay clean on the back end.
Advisory Engagement
No hourly billing. No scope creep. Clear investment ranges tied to outcomes, not time.
Advisory Retainer
An ongoing seat at your table for the decisions that come up between the big ones. Built for operators who want a trusted advisor on call, with regular calls, priority access, and a standing review that keeps strategy ahead of the next surprise.
Fixed monthly fee
- Recurring advisory calls
- Priority email access
- Quarterly strategy review
Strategic Advisory
A defined engagement scoped to a single consequential decision or initiative. You get a clear decision framework, a defensible recommendation, and board-ready materials, delivered against a fixed scope and timeline.
Fixed project fee
- Defined scope & timeline
- Decision framework delivery
- Board-ready materials
Priority Advisory
Senior attention when a decision will not wait. Built for urgent, high-stakes moments: a fast response commitment, a dedicated advisor, and accelerated deliverables that hold up even on a short clock.
Fixed engagement fee
- 48-hour response commitment
- Dedicated senior advisor
- Accelerated deliverables
Scope & Boundaries
What's Included
- ✓ Strategic analysis and clear, defensible recommendations
- ✓ Independent evaluation of vendor and contract proposals
- ✓ Board and stakeholder communication support
- ✓ Federal program eligibility and application guidance
What We Don't Do
- × Project management or construction oversight
- × Equipment procurement or vendor representation
- × General contracting or implementation management
- × Lobbying or regulatory representation
Our advisory work is strategic and independent. We do not manage projects, procure equipment, or act as a general contractor.
Who This Is For
A municipal utility weighing its first large DER interconnection, with proposals on the table it did not solicit and no internal engineer to say which one protects the system.
A rural electric cooperative whose board is split on battery storage: some want to move now, some want to wait, and no one has an independent read on what the numbers actually support.
A small city sitting on a real shot at federal infrastructure dollars, with no grants staff to say which programs fit or what compliance will demand two years from now.
A utility renegotiating a long-term power supply contract that will define its costs for a decade, wanting someone in the room who answers only to them.
30 minutes. No obligation. We'll listen first.