The grid is beautiful and its future is ours to build.

Working with developers, governments, Indigenous organizations, and non-profits, I marshal experience and a deep continental network to instill cross-cutting solutions to some of the most complex electricity transmission infrastructure development and policy issues of our time.

Complexity abounds;
simplicity beckons.

Problem Statement

The North American electric grid is the largest machine created in the history of humankind. Over a century, diverse organizations connected conventional generating fleets with industrial consumers, urban centres, and rural cooperatives — largely without a master planner.

Today, offshore wind, demand-side aggregation, distributed generation, electrification, aging poles and wires, catastrophic weather events, and evolving generation economics are all forcing utilities, balancing authorities, and governments to rethink how we plan, procure, and interconnect power infrastructure.

Canada’s role in the North American grid is vital, yet our planning and development approach remains fragmented. We do not maximize the value of interregional transmission technology — especially our high voltage direct current know-how. The gaps between provinces must become clean energy highways.

Strategic Advisory Services

Project origination via prefeasibility assessments and business case development
Governmental and regulatory affairs mandates
Sector networking and engagement for new entrants, proposal and grant writing
Communications, public and stakeholder relations, event coordination
Recruitment of personnel, team building and project launch

I can work independently or muster a continental network of top-tier independent professionals and technical firms to collaborate with your team — from the cocktail napkin to tweaking your pro-forma in advance of financing.

About the Principal

I have spent the last 15 years focused on the public policy, development, and commercial matters of high voltage transmission development — working with companies, communities, Indigenous organizations, and governments from the Northwest Territories to Texas, and from New England to British Columbia.

My energy career started on a pier in Cape Town, South Africa in early 2010, where a conversation with the developer of the first utility-scale wind farm in sub-Saharan Africa clarified that the greatest barriers in energy are rarely technical alone — they are legal, social, political, and human.

Since then, I have worked with global wind developers, provincial governments, HVDC transmission developers, and non-profits on grid advocacy campaigns, always operating as a strategist translating complexity into executable movement.