Planning

Coordinated planning that brings tribal nations, municipalities, corporations, and communities into alignment.

Our Planning Services

Energy Sovereignty Planning

Plans that move a nation from buying power to owning generation: load and cost baselines, generation and storage options, ownership and financing structures, and the sequence to get there.

Comprehensive & Strategic Planning

Comprehensive plans, strategic plans, and CEDS documents written to be adopted by a council or board and executed by the staff who inherit them, not filed and forgotten.

Grant-Required Planning Deliverables

The planning products federal programs require as a condition of award, including DOE energy planning deliverables and hazard mitigation plans, produced to the reviewer's criteria and on the funder's clock.

Energy & Sustainability Planning

Energy transition roadmaps, renewable integration and grid modernization strategy, carbon reduction plans, and the technical analysis behind each.

Why Work With Us

AICP-Credentialed

Our planning work is led by an American Institute of Certified Planners credential holder, the professional standard agencies and review panels look for.

Built Around Your Calendar

We plan against council meeting cycles, funding deadlines, and consultation obligations, because those are what actually set the schedule.

Implementation-Ready

Milestones, owners, and resource requirements, so the plan survives contact with the staff and budget that have to carry it out.

Adaptable Frameworks

Planning approaches that can evolve as conditions and priorities change.

Credentials That Matter to Reviewers

Our planning work carries an AICP credential, the American Institute of Certified Planners standard. We are also an Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy Preferred Provider, and our leadership has been recognized as a Grid Alternatives Tribal Energy Innovator and through the American Indian Policy Institute Indigenous Leadership Academy.

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Questions We Get

Can you write the plan a grant requires?
Yes, and to the reviewer's criteria rather than to a general template. Federal programs specify what a planning deliverable must contain and how it will be scored, and a plan that reads well but misses a required element does not get the award.
How long does a planning engagement take?
The technical work is rarely the constraint. Council and board meeting cycles, consultation obligations, and funder deadlines set the schedule, so we build the plan around your calendar and tell you at the start which dates are immovable.
What is an energy sovereignty plan, specifically?
A plan that moves a nation from buying power to owning generation. It establishes the load and cost baseline, evaluates generation and storage options against it, sets out ownership and financing structures, and gives a sequence with decision points. It is a governance document as much as a technical one.
Will the plan actually get used?
That is the test we design for. Plans are written to be adopted by a council or board and executed by the staff who inherit them, which means named owners, real dates, and resource requirements rather than aspirations.
Do you also deliver what the plan recommends?
We can, and we say so up front so you can decide whether you want that. Some clients specifically want a planner with no downstream interest in the outcome; where that is the case we will scope the engagement that way.

Start Planning Your Project

From comprehensive planning to energy transition roadmaps, let's build a plan that works for your community.