Sustainable Energy Advantage provides grounded insights to empower confident and effective choices in a complex clean energy landscape.
We are an independent consulting and advisory firm providing objective guidance to a diverse range of clients as they navigate the complex clean energy landscape. Since 1998, we’ve leveraged unparalleled experience to provide strategic insights and expert analysis at the intersection of markets, policy, economics and technology to help our clients develop clear solutions.
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SEA’s Eyes & Ears subscription service extends your capabilities with best-in-class insights on the New York, New England, and PJM renewable energy markets.
Tailored consulting engagements leverage our extensive experience and exposure to the range of clean energy technologies, opportunities and challenges faced by the full spectrum of market actors, allowing us to distill and synthesize critical information to meet your specific needs and objectives.
Since 2005, Sustainable Energy Advantage has delivered a range of services providing analysis to a broad and diverse group of private and public sector entities on a subscription basis. The common characteristics of SEA subscription services include:
Your analytical ‘staples’ – information and analysis needed broadly throughout the clean energy sector → we can do it more cost-effectively, allowing you to better focus limited resources
Your analytical ‘wish list’ – Deep analysis you’d like to do, if you had the bandwidth, the time or the budget → by spreading the costs across a large base of subscribers, we can go much deeper and yield insights you want at a price you can afford
A ‘bird’s eye view’ – perspective garnered through our interaction with the full range of private and public sector market participants → we can assess trends, common practices and concerns, and market characteristics at an aggregate level that individual market participants generally can’t see
Freedom from conscious bias → by providing common analysis to a diverse range of interests, we can approach our work with as much objectivity and independence as possible
By Region
SEA subscription services are regional in nature, specific to markets in which markets, policies and specific generation sources play.
SEA subscription services include deep-dive market fundamentals analysis of clean energy markets, and clean energy regulatory, policy, legislative and wholesale market tracking and analysis.
Renewable Energy Market Outlook, REMO
In 2005, SEA created the industry’s first deep dive market fundamentals analysis of renewable energy certificate (REC) supply, demand and price scenario analysis delivered through tri-annual briefings to give subscribers a foundation for a well-formed market view. SEA has provided REMO to a dedicated and incredibly diverse group of subscribers ever since over an expanding geography.
Starting in 2007, SEA has provided a clean energy regulatory, policy, legislative and wholesale market tracking and analysis service, creating bandwidth, saving time, and boosting staff effectiveness to a diverse and ever-growing range of market participants and public agencies. SEA’s uniquely comprehensive Eyes & Ears regular flash updates bolt a best-in-class government affairs and market intel function onto your team. SEA supercharged Eyes & Ears in 2022 with a new online platform and database putting everything you need at your fingertips, fast.
MA-SMS is a multi-client subscription service SEA has provided since 2014 which offers an in-depth study of the Massachusetts SREC I and SREC II programs. Subscribers to MA-SMS will receive a range of recurring deliverables, scheduled to optimize accuracy of forecasts and actionability for clients trading, including four Market Fundamentals Webinars per year, and two Market Briefs (deep dive)
The Massachusetts Clean Peak Market Outlook probes Clean Peak Standard (CPS) market fundamentals, dynamics and key uncertainties to project Clean Peak Energy Certificate (CPEC) supply demand scenarios as well as spot and long-term contracting price forecasts. CPMO builds a well-founded view of an emerging complex and dynamic market to help participants better manage risk and make informed decisions.