OUR WORK

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eFormative Options specializes in developing sustainable energy solutions, creating funding and resource plans and strengthening relationships with funders and other stakeholders. Our services draw on substantial experience and lessons learned with successful project developments, community engagement and sustainable energy deployment programs.


We are qualified to provide a broad range of energy policy consulting services including:

Policy & Market Analysis

  • Performing research, building relationships and networking with industry, utilities, consumer advocates and other stakeholders locally, regionally and nationally
  • Collecting and analyzing market data; evaluating economic development impacts
  • Organizing support for hearings, community engagement, media outreach

Climate & Energy Insights

  • Evaluating technologies, project engineering, resource assessment
  • Providing energy-related capacity building and training
  • Serving as subject matter expert (SME)

Development Consulting

  • Launching new ventures, conducting project scoping, feasibility research, financial modeling and pro forma sensitivity analysis
  • Preparing and reviewing proposals, including work plan and budget design
  • Identifying potential funders and cost-sharing; obtaining commitments for support

Management Consulting Services

  • Leading strategic planning and implementation of related actions
  • Business development and marketing, including website content
  • Agenda development and facilitation, and serving as a resource to prepare project reports including project achievements, funding secured and budget updates
  • Sound project management to ensure high-quality deliverables completed on time


Over the past few years, we have led submission of more than
21 major funding proposals with awards together totaling $17 million.

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

“Heather has an impressive network of colleagues and a keen grasp of technical issues as well as seeing beyond the trees to see the big picture of the forest.”

John Vanden Bosch | President/Principal Engineer, ArcVera Renewables


“Heather has a gift for developing public / private consensus and securing funding to match, benefiting sectors that traditional investors are unable to serve.”

Tadd Lisman | Senior Wind Resource Analyst, ENEL Green Power 2020

“Without her strong organizational skills, policy and market knowledge, and energy insights, our NREL awards would have not been attainable.”

Ken Kotalik | Director of North American Sales, Primus Windpower

OUR AFFILIATES

Becki Meadows B.S.M.E. | She/Her | Technical Consultant | BAM Engineering Consulting
In the wind industry since 2008, Becki’s experience includes small wind sales and site engineering. While at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, she completed national wind resource assessments, provided outreach for Wind Powering America and conducted levelized cost of energy (LCOE) modeling and business development. Prior to starting BAM Engineering Consulting, Becki provided predictive maintenance services for Romax Technology. LinkedIn

Britton Rife

Britton Rife | She/Her | Policy and Development Consultant
As project manager for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Council and Smart Buildings Center, Britton advocates for energy efficiency policies and programs and supports the national Building Operator Certification Program. She has promoted distributed energy resources through outreach with diverse stakeholder groups like the Distributed Wind Energy Association, Bergey Windpower Co., and the Oklahoma Wind Power Initiative. She has served on Solar Washington’s Board of Directors and is the current Washington Caucus Chair for the Northwest Energy Coalition. LinkedIn

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C. Axel Stanovsky | He/Him | Project Associate | Professional Civil Engineer
A creative and compassionate engineer with construction, communication, and management training, Axel approaches each project as an opportunity for collaboration. He provides technical writing, analysis, and grant coordination, specializing in interdisciplinary project coordination and stakeholder communications. With a diverse background including structural design, intellectual property protection and experience working with tribal communities, he applies a broad approach to distributed energy implementation. LinkedIn

Kaiulani Osorio-Sawka | She/Her | Assistant | Vashon Water Works
Providing strategic planning, business management, operations and administration, coordination, systems design, and graphics support for eFormative Options to develop documents, analysis and communications services, Kaiulani also manages Vashon Water Works and has more than 12 years of experience in wastewater/water operations management. LinkedIn

Padma Kasthurirangan EE | She/Her | Technical Consultant | Buffalo Renewables Inc.
An electrical engineer based in Western New York, Padma runs a small business specialized in providing customized turn-key distributed wind and solar PV based distributed power generation solutions. When she’s not working with an insanely adventurous team and an even more motivated customer base, Padma likes to hike, bike, kickbox and jump out of planes for fun!  LinkedIn

Boyd Pro | He/Him | Independent Consultant
A seasoned renewable energy expert with 13 years of experience in the industry. Boyd has worked as an independent consultant with eFormative, Convivium, and other firms, as well as leading projects within Black & Veatch’s Performance and Strategic Planning groups. His expertise spans wind and solar PV analyses, energy storage, microgrids, EVs, biomass, and fossil fuel generation technologies.

Bill Moyer

Executive Director of Backbone Campaign since 2003 addressing root problems with just, sustainable solutions; co-author of 2016 Solutionary Rail: A People-powered Campaign to Electrify America’s Railroads and Open Corridors to a Clean Energy Future, and host of the Reconnect America podcast, providing strategic tools for unifying Americans in otherwise divisive times. A fourth generation Washingtonian, Bill is a well respected community leader, combining lessons of the performing arts with grand strategic principles to invigorate nonviolent social change. Bill and his colleagues have designed and produced hundreds of creative events and trained thousands of change agents across the country.

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