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Mohr Partners’ Energy & Sustainability Advisory Services deliver strategic solutions that reduce risk, control costs, and build a more sustainable future. With decades of utility expertise and proven results across commercial and industrial portfolios, we transform energy from overhead expense into competitive advantage. 

Energy infrastructure, utility management, and sustainability performance have become critical business imperatives that directly impact financial performance, operational resilience, and competitive positioning. Mohr Partners’ Energy and Sustainability Advisory Services provide the expertise, tools, and strategic guidance to transform these challenges into opportunities. 

Our comprehensive approach integrates utility coordination, strategic site selection, energy procurement, efficiency implementation, distributed resources, and emerging Grid Edge solutions into cohesive strategies aligned with your business objectives and sustainability commitments. 

How Mohr Partners Can Help You

Mohr Partners’ Energy & Sustainability Advisory Services deliver measurable outcomes that improve financial performance, operational resilience, and competitive positioning: 

Systematic identification and capture of energy cost savings through procurement optimization, efficiency implementation, tariff negotiation, and incentive capture that reduce ongoing operational expenses and improve budget predictability. 

Comprehensive assessment of utility infrastructure, service reliability, and energy supply security that reduces project risk, prevents costly delays, and ensures operational continuity for critical business operations. 

Positioning energy infrastructure and sustainability performance as competitive differentiators that enhance asset values, attract tenants and employees, meet stakeholder expectations, and demonstrate corporate leadership. 

Measurable advancement toward climate commitments through renewable energy procurement, energy efficiency implementation, emissions reduction, and transparent sustainability reporting that satisfies investor, regulatory, and stakeholder requirements.

Strategic positioning to benefit from evolving energy markets, emerging technologies, and regulatory frameworks through Grid Edge solutions, distributed resources, and active market participation. 

By transforming energy complexity into opportunity, Mohr Partners helps organizations reduce costs, mitigate risks, and build sustainable competitive advantages. 

Why Energy Strategy Matters Now

Energy infrastructure and utility management represent critical decision factors that directly impact your bottom line and operational resilience. The commercial real estate landscape has fundamentally shifted, placing energy considerations at the forefront of strategic planning. 

Key Business Imperatives:

Upfront utility costs pose a major risk in new construction and expansion projects, requiring sophisticated planning and utility coordination to avoid costly delays and budget overruns. 

Energy availability ranks as the #1 site selection factor in 2025, surpassing traditional considerations as power infrastructure constraints limit development opportunities in key markets. 

Utility expenditures consume 40% or more of operating costs for commercial and industrial buildings, making energy management a primary driver of operational efficiency and profitability. 

Utility prices escalate faster than inflation, eroding budgets and demanding proactive procurement strategies to maintain cost predictability and financial stability. 

ESG commitments grow in importance as stakeholders, investors, and regulatory bodies demand measurable progress toward sustainability goals and transparent climate reporting. 

Return-to-office initiatives require enhanced environments, with comfortable, sustainable workspaces becoming essential for employee attraction, retention, and productivity. 

Understanding these challenges is the first step. Mohr Partners provides expertise, tools, and strategic guidance to transform energy complexity into opportunity. 

Comprehensive Energy Solutions

Mohr Partners delivers end-to-end energy & sustainability advisory services that integrate utility expertise, procurement strategy, infrastructure optimization, and emerging technologies. Our approach combines deep industry knowledge with data-driven insights to deliver measurable results across your portfolio. 

Energy Procurement & Contract Management

Cost-effective energy contracts optimized for deregulated markets and portfolio complexity. 

Mohr Partners’ Energy Procurement services, delivered through our partnership with Zentility, provide customized energy buying strategies that ensure the lowest lifecycle cost while managing risk and supporting sustainability objectives. 

Strategic Procurement Capabilities:

Tailored procurement strategies aligned with consumption patterns, risk tolerance, budget requirements, and corporate sustainability commitments across single or multi-site portfolios.

Advanced analytics and real-time market monitoring that identify optimal buying windows, predict price movements, and inform timing decisions for contract execution. 

Consolidated platform for tracking consumption, managing contracts, monitoring market positions, and generating portfolio-wide insights across multiple locations and utility providers. 

Sophisticated hedging approaches, fixed-price contracts, and portfolio diversification that protect against market volatility while maintaining budget predictability. 

Renewable energy procurement, renewable energy certificate (REC) sourcing, and green power programs that advance climate commitments while meeting cost objectives. 

In deregulated energy markets across 17 states and the District of Columbia, commercial customers can choose their electricity and natural gas suppliers, creating opportunities for significant cost savings. Our procurement specialists leverage competitive market dynamics, supplier relationships, and market timing expertise to secure optimal terms that traditional utility tariffs cannot provide. 

Our systematic approach reduces energy costs, mitigates price risk, and provides transparency across your entire energy portfolio while advancing corporate sustainability goals. 

Energy Efficiency Implementation

Cost-effective energy contracts optimized for deregulated markets and portfolio complexity. 

Mohr Partners’ Energy Procurement services, delivered through our partnership with Zentility, provide customized energy buying strategies that ensure the lowest lifecycle cost while managing risk and supporting sustainability objectives. 

Strategic Benefits:

 Systematic reduction of utility consumption through lighting upgrades, HVAC optimization, building envelope improvements, and control system enhancements that deliver immediate and ongoing cost savings. 

Improved temperature control, air quality, lighting quality, and acoustic comfort that increase employee productivity, satisfaction, and support return-to-office initiatives. 

Energy-efficient buildings command premium valuations, attract quality tenants, and demonstrate lower total cost of ownership that enhances portfolio performance and marketability.

Measurable greenhouse gas emission reductions that advance corporate climate commitments, meet stakeholder expectations, and demonstrate environmental leadership.

Utility incentive programs provide substantial financial support for efficiency projects through rebates, demand reduction credits, renewable energy incentives, and infrastructure improvement grants. Our utility specialists conduct comprehensive assessments, identify qualifying measures, and navigate incentive application processes to maximize financial benefits.


We coordinate with utility providers, incentive administrators, and regulatory bodies to ensure optimal rebate capture while maintaining service reliability and operational requirements. This systematic approach accelerates project payback periods and improves return on investment for efficiency initiatives. 

Our systematic approach reduces energy costs, mitigates price risk, and provides transparency across your entire energy portfolio while advancing corporate sustainability goals. 

Utility Interface & Coordination

Seamless utility navigation through seasoned expertise and established industry relationships 

Mohr Partners’ Utility Interface services leverage decades of utility economic development experience and comprehensive understanding of utility operations, protocols, and financial drivers. Our seasoned professionals navigate complex utility landscapes on your behalf, ensuring optimal coordination and service delivery. 

Core Capabilities:

Comprehensive evaluation of electricity, natural gas, water, telecommunications, and waste management systems to identify capacity, reliability, and cost optimization opportunities. 

Detailed examination of utility rate structures, demand charges, and time-of-use pricing to develop strategies that minimize ongoing operational costs. 

Expert coordination with utility providers following established protocols while maintaining safety standards and regulatory compliance throughout all interactions. 

Insight into utility business models, investment priorities, and economic development programs that inform negotiation strategies and incentive capture opportunities. 

Assessment of utility service history, infrastructure redundancy, and outage risk to ensure operational continuity for critical business operations. 

Our utility specialists coordinate directly with energy providers, regulatory bodies, and economic development organizations to negotiate optimal rate structures, secure infrastructure commitments, and capture available incentives that reduce total cost of ownership. 

Discover how Mohr Partners’ Utility Interface expertise can streamline your energy infrastructure planning and unlock hidden cost savings. 

Strategic Site Selection

Utility-driven location strategy for optimal infrastructure, cost, and reliability

Mohr Partners’ Strategic Site Selection services integrate traditional location factors with comprehensive utility infrastructure analysis, ensuring your site decisions align with energy availability, cost structure, and long-term business objectives.

Strategic Approach:

Our methodology evaluates geographical location advantages including skilled labor access, supply chain proximity, and market reach, while prioritizing utility infrastructure capacity as a primary decision criterion. This integrated approach identifies locations that support operational requirements while minimizing energy-related risks and costs.

Evaluation of available power capacity, substation proximity, transmission infrastructure, and grid reliability to ensure adequate energy supply for current and future operations

Assessment of natural gas distribution infrastructure, capacity, and pricing to support heating, manufacturing processes, and combined heat and power applications. 

Analysis of water supply capacity, quality, treatment capabilities, and discharge options for industrial processes and cooling operations. 

Examination of fiber connectivity, bandwidth availability, and redundancy options is essential for modern business operations and data-intensive applications. 

 Identification of utility-sponsored incentives, infrastructure investment commitments, and rate concessions available for qualifying projects and employers. 

Our proprietary analysis framework compares candidate locations across utility cost structures, infrastructure readiness, service reliability, and expansion capability. Interactive dashboards with weighted scoring methodology enable data-driven site selection aligned with project requirements and strategic objectives. 

By positioning utility infrastructure as a core site selection factor, Mohr Partners identifies locations that reduce upfront infrastructure costs, minimize ongoing operational expenses, and provide long-term energy security. 

Diversified Sustainability Solutions

Mohr Partners provides diversified and data-driven sustainability solutions ranging from utility data enrichment to strategic electrification as well as grid edge solutions. Our expertise in integrating data enrichment policies with intelligence reporting as well as end-to-end project implementation delivers impact that is quantified and identified across your portfolio. 

Climate Reporting & Utility Bill Management

Transform utility data into actionable intelligence and compliant sustainability reporting 

Mohr Partners’ Climate Reporting and Utility Bill Management services, powered by WatchWire by Tango, transform fragmented utility data into a comprehensive, accurate database that drives efficiency, ensures compliance, and supports strategic decision-making. 

Platform Capabilities:

Centralized utility bill collection, validation, approval workflows, and payment coordination that eliminate manual processes and reduce administrative overhead. 

Systematic review of utility invoices to identify billing errors, tariff misapplications, demand charge anomalies, and refund opportunities that recover costs and prevent future overcharges. 

Detailed analysis of energy, water, and waste consumption patterns across locations, identifying inefficiencies, anomalies, and optimization opportunities through interactive dashboards. 

Predictive modeling of utility expenditures based on historical consumption, weather normalization, and operational changes that improve budget accuracy and financial planning. 

Comprehensive calculation of Scope 1 (direct emissions), Scope 2 (purchased energy), and Scope 3 (value chain) emissions following established protocols and reporting frameworks.

Generation of fully compliant sustainability reports aligned with CDP, GRI, SASB, TCFD, and other frameworks that meet investor, regulatory, and stakeholder requirements.

By consolidating utility data into a single source of truth, our platform enables portfolio-wide visibility, benchmarking across locations, identification of underperforming assets, and measurement of efficiency initiative impacts. This intelligence drives targeted interventions that reduce costs and advance sustainability objectives. 

Track utility spending, meet climate commitments, and unlock operational insights with comprehensive utility data management and reporting. Transform your facilities into high-performance assets that reduce costs, enhance comfort, and support sustainability goals. 

Behind-the-Meter Solutions

On-site generation, storage, and resilience through distributed energy resources 

Mohr Partners’ Behind-the-Meter Solutions deliver comprehensive planning, design, procurement, and implementation services for on-site renewable energy, energy storage, combined heat and power (CHP), and microgrid systems that enhance resilience, reduce costs, and lower emissions. 

End-to-End Project Management:

Comprehensive evaluation of site characteristics, energy consumption patterns, utility tariff structures, and incentive eligibility to determine optimal system configuration and financial performance. 

Development of conceptual system designs, performance modeling, financial analysis, and interconnection requirements that inform investment decisions and project planning. 

Preparation of detailed specifications, solicitation of qualified engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors, bid evaluation, and vendor selection to ensure competitive pricing and quality execution.

Comprehensive coordination of design development, permitting, construction, commissioning, and performance verification to ensure on-time, on-budget project delivery aligned with specifications. 

Navigation of federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC), state incentive programs, renewable energy grants, and accelerated depreciation benefits that improve project economics and reduce payback periods. 

Coordination with utility providers for interconnection applications, technical reviews, metering requirements, and final system commissioning to ensure compliant, safe operation. 

Strategic sourcing and management of RECs to support renewable energy claims, meet sustainability commitments, and satisfy regulatory requirements. 

Our expertise spans solar photovoltaic systems, battery energy storage, combined heat and power, fuel cells, wind energy, and microgrid integration that deliver energy independence, demand charge reduction, backup power capability, and carbon emission reductions tailored to facility requirements and business objectives. 

Build energy resilience and control with distributed energy resources designed for your operational needs and sustainability goals. 

Electrification Technologies

Decarbonization through strategic electrification of transportation, heating, and industrial processes 

Mohr Partners’ Electrification Technologies services guide the transition from fossil fuel-based systems to efficient electric alternatives that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, lower operating costs, improve processes, and enhance workplace environments. 

Strategic Electrification Solutions:

Comprehensive planning and implementation of electric vehicle (EV) fleet transitions for both on-road and off-road applications. Our services include fleet analysis, vehicle selection, charging infrastructure design, utility coordination, demand management strategies, and incentive capture that ensure successful electrification while managing grid impacts and operational requirements. 

Deployment of high-efficiency ground-source heat pumps and closed-loop geothermal systems that provide superior heating and cooling performance with significantly reduced energy consumption compared to conventional HVAC systems. These technologies deliver excellent temperature control, lower operating costs, and substantial carbon emission reductions for commercial and industrial facilities. 

Strategic electrification of specialized applications including controlled environment agriculture (indoor farming), industrial heat recovery systems, and manufacturing processes that benefit from precise electric control, improved efficiency, and emissions reduction. Our expertise identifies opportunities where electrification delivers operational advantages while supporting decarbonization objectives. 

Our electrification methodology evaluates current energy systems, identifies optimal electrification opportunities, assesses utility infrastructure requirements, models financial performance including incentives, and coordinates implementation to ensure seamless transitions that deliver immediate benefits while advancing long-term sustainability commitments. 

Accelerate decarbonization and operational improvement through strategic electrification of transportation, heating, and industrial systems. 

Grid Edge Solutions

Navigate the evolving energy landscape with integrated supply and demand-side strategies 

Mohr Partners’ Grid Edge Solutions position your organization at the forefront of energy innovation, leveraging emerging technologies and market mechanisms that optimize energy costs, enhance resilience, and generate new revenue streams through active participation in evolving energy markets. 

Advanced Energy Management:

Aggregation and orchestration of distributed energy resources—including on-site generation, battery storage, controllable loads, and flexible demand—into coordinated systems that participate in utility demand response programs, wholesale energy markets, and capacity markets. VPP participation generates revenue while supporting grid reliability and reducing peak demand costs. 

Implementation of sophisticated control platforms that optimize energy consumption, coordinate distributed resources, automate demand response participation, and execute real-time decisions based on utility rates, grid conditions, and operational priorities. Advanced EMS platforms deliver continuous optimization that reduces costs while maintaining operational requirements. 

Strategic use of battery energy storage to capture value through time-shifting energy consumption, purchasing electricity during low-price periods for use during high-price periods, participating in frequency regulation markets, and providing grid services that generate revenue while reducing overall energy costs.

The energy industry is rapidly evolving from centralized generation and one-way power flow toward distributed resources, two-way grid interaction, and active customer participation. Our Grid Edge expertise helps organizations navigate this transformation, capturing opportunities while managing complexity associated with emerging technologies, market structures, and regulatory frameworks. 

Position your organization to benefit from energy market evolution through advanced Grid Edge solutions and strategic resource optimization. 

Frequently Asked Questions

Energy advisory services provide strategic guidance and implementation support for utility management, energy procurement, efficiency optimization, sustainability planning, and emerging energy technologies. Professional energy advisors help organizations reduce costs, mitigate risks, and achieve sustainability goals through comprehensive assessment, strategy development, and project execution. 

Energy advisory services reduce operating costs through multiple mechanisms: optimized energy procurement in deregulated markets, utility tariff analysis and rate structure optimization, energy efficiency implementation with utility incentive capture, demand charge management, behind-the-meter generation and storage, and systematic utility bill auditing that identifies billing errors and refund opportunities. 

Utility infrastructure assessment evaluates electricity capacity and reliability, natural gas distribution and availability, water supply and wastewater systems, telecommunications infrastructure, and waste management services at potential site locations. This assessment identifies locations with optimal utility cost structures, adequate capacity, service reliability, and expansion capability essential for operational success.

Behind-the-meter solutions including on-site solar generation, battery energy storage, combined heat and power, and microgrid systems improve business resilience by providing backup power during grid outages, reducing dependence on utility-supplied energy, mitigating exposure to energy price volatility, and ensuring operational continuity for critical business processes. 

Grid Edge refers to technologies and strategies that enable active customer participation in energy markets through distributed generation, energy storage, flexible demand, and intelligent control systems. Commercial customers benefit through demand response revenue, energy arbitrage opportunities, wholesale market participation, reduced peak demand charges, and optimized energy costs through real-time decision-making. 

Energy advisory services support ESG commitments through renewable energy procurement and REC management, greenhouse gas emissions accounting (Scope 1, 2, and 3), sustainability reporting aligned with CDP, GRI, and TCFD frameworks, energy efficiency implementation that reduces carbon footprint, and strategic planning that aligns energy decisions with corporate climate goals and stakeholder expectations. 

5 Reasons Why Mohr Partners is the Best Choice for Energy & Sustainability Advisory

Mohr Partners brings decades of utility economic development experience and a comprehensive understanding of utility operations, protocols, tariff structures, and safety standards. Our seasoned professionals maintain established relationships with utility providers, economic development organizations, and regulatory bodies that enable effective advocacy and optimal outcomes for clients. 

Unlike traditional site selection approaches, Mohr Partners positions utility infrastructure as a core decision factor alongside labor, supply chain, and market access considerations. Our comprehensive assessments evaluate electricity capacity, natural gas availability, water systems, telecommunications infrastructure, and economic development programs to identify locations with optimal cost, reliability, and expansion capability. 

Through strategic partnerships with Zentility and WatchWire by Tango, Mohr Partners delivers AI-driven market intelligence, centralized portfolio management, and tailored procurement strategies for deregulated markets. Our platform-enabled approach ensures lowest lifecycle cost energy contracts while providing comprehensive utility data management, bill auditing, and sustainability reporting capabilities. 

From behind-the-meter distributed energy resources to climate reporting and emissions accounting, Mohr Partners delivers comprehensive services that reduce carbon footprint, improve operational resilience, and support ESG commitments. Our expertise spans renewable energy implementation, energy efficiency optimization, and regulatory compliance that advance sustainability objectives while delivering financial returns. 

Mohr Partners helps organizations capitalize on energy market evolution through Grid Edge solutions including virtual power plants, advanced energy management systems, and energy arbitrage strategies. Our expertise integrates supply-side and demand-side resources, positioning clients to benefit from emerging market opportunities while optimizing costs and enhancing resilience. 

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Patrick Kelly is a Director at Mohr Partners Inc., based in the firm’s Cleveland office where he focuses on energy analysis for the company’s occupier clients.

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