Visage Energy Corp. provides consulting services for all aspects of clean energy and carbon management technology projects involving technology developers, major corporations, and end-users.
Community Stakeholder Engagement
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Identify and engage communities that have historically been marginalized and disproportionately impacted by community social or economic challenges.
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Assess the potential effects of the project on the local and surrounding regions of the host site. This includes conducting a stakeholder mapping and assessment process to determine which communities are most affected.
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Encourage information exchange and use a variety of engagement methods (e.g., focus groups, small-group discussions, and educational workshops) to include a broad range of participants from impacted communities.
Technology Commercialization Advisory
Visage Energy uses a commercialization methodology for energy technology projects that was developed with and was applied in partnership with SRI.
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Visage Energy accelerates technology commercialization and project development by soliciting the perspectives of all relevant project stakeholders and by factoring those inputs into the macro- and micro-level dimensions of project deployment.
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Assist technology developers in translating the industry needs into technical specifications allowing developers to target the design to those specifications.
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The methodology as applied to carbon mitigation is described in "Commercialization of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology Through Public-Private Partnerships."
Industry/Market Analysis
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Assists clients in formulating a robust business framework for commercialization of projects encompassing a suitable business model, market analysis, risk management factors, and financial projections.
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Develop project management analyses to identify commercialization issues and develop mitigation strategies, which consider all stakeholder requirements.
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Prepare clients for regulatory and project deployment hurdles, by performing regulatory impact assessments for emerging technologies and energy projects.