Subject Matter Expertise for Innovators

The energy and sustainability marketplace is enjoying a rennaissance of products and services. For those intrepid souls immersed in this exciting field of innovation, understanding all the ways your offering impacts the built environment can be a daunting task.

SRG experts can provide the crucial guidance and insight necessary to make sure you are presenting the best version of what it is you do. Find new value propositions, establish success metrics, and provide your partners and customers with the best products and services possible with the help of SRG.

How SRG Supports Energy and Sustainability Innovators

The energy technology market is maturing rapidly, and the companies succeeding in it are those that can speak the language of buildings, engineers, and energy managers — not just software developers and investors. SRG brings that translation layer.

Preliminary Energy Assessment: Setting the Stage

For technology and service providers entering a new client relationship, one of the most powerful early-engagement tools is the Preliminary Energy Assessment. A well-executed preliminary assessment characterizes a facility’s current energy profile, identifies the highest-impact opportunity areas, and frames the case for deeper engagement — whether that means a full ASHRAE Level II audit, an EPC process, or deployment of a monitoring or controls platform.

In recent engagements, SRG has performed preliminary assessments across a range of facility types — from life sciences and biotech campuses to corporate headquarters and mixed-use institutional buildings. These assessments typically include a facility walkthrough, review of 12 to 24 months of utility billing data, interviews with facility and engineering staff, and a findings report that prioritizes ECM categories by estimated savings potential. They are designed to be actionable and defensible: numbers that hold up when an energy manager or CFO looks at them closely.

Defining Measurable Value for Your Product

Many energy technology products — controls platforms, monitoring solutions, commissioning tools, demand response systems — produce real value that their developers understate because they lack the engineering framework to quantify it fully. SRG’s subject matter expertise is applied here in a focused way: we work with your team to identify all the pathways through which your product produces measurable results, help you develop the savings methodologies and M&V frameworks to support those claims, and provide the technical credibility to present them to energy managers, ESCOs, and facility owners who have seen a lot of proposals.

In one engagement with a continuous commissioning platform provider, SRG identified previously uncharacterized value pathways related to outdoor air management, simultaneous heating and cooling avoidance, and overnight setpoint reset. The combined impact of those additional pathways represented a 35% increase in the product’s documented savings claim — with the data and methodology to support it in competitive proposal contexts.

Technical Due Diligence for Investors and Partners

Capital flowing into energy technology is substantial, but the technical review capacity to evaluate those investments is limited. SRG provides technical due diligence support for investors, strategic partners, and procurement teams evaluating energy technology offerings: reviewing savings claims, auditing pilot project results, assessing methodological rigor, and identifying risks that standard commercial due diligence doesn’t surface. The goal is a clear-eyed, independent assessment — the same independence that makes our audit and owner’s representation work credible applies here as well.