Energy for Development
Tetra Tech is powering a just energy transition for all.
Tetra Tech is Leading with Science® to deliver transformative energy solutions for clients worldwide. Our work helps people and businesses plug in to reliable electricity, strengthens energy security, and powers resilient economies. We structure finance to drive deals that maximize advanced technologies and promote energy independence. We help create efficient utilities and modern power grids. We promote broad-based economic opportunities in the global energy sector. We improve lives and livelihoods by addressing the critical intersections of energy with health, water, and food security.
Our wide range of technical, management, and policy expertise includes scaling up renewable energy, increasing energy efficiency, and utilizing market-based mechanisms such as emissions trading. Our engineers and consultants collaborate with governments, developers, investors, lenders, and international development agencies. Together, we implement long-term energy programs, facilitate sector reforms, and bring power projects to life.
Energy Transition
Tetra Tech scales resilient and cost-optimal energy solutions to drive broad-based economic growth. We implement and support comprehensive programs that involve policy reform, competitive procurement, utility demand-side management, and clean energy deployment.
- Just energy transition advisory
- Energy sector decarbonization and diversification
- Renewable energy auctions and tendering
- Renewable energy grid integration, studies, assessments, and strategies
- Feasibility studies and due diligence for renewable energy and energy storage solutions
- Vulnerability assessments of power infrastructure
- Clean and decentralized energy system design and deployment
- Green hydrogen and carbon capture strategies
Sustainable Energy Finance
Tetra Tech leverages public and private capital at scale to finance the clean and just energy transition. We support developing and emerging countries with renewable energy transactions and have strong relationships with lenders and investors. We understand the mandates, minimum requirements, and risk appetite of these investors, allowing us to rapidly identify financing partners.
- Impact and blended finance strategic advisory
- Project finance and transaction advisory
- Financial modeling
- Investment due diligence
- Financing instruments for infrastructure resilience
- Carbon finance
- Green and sustainability bonds
Utility Management Consulting
Tetra Tech partners with energy utilities worldwide to decarbonize portfolios, strengthen power system resilience, and boost efficiency to drive the clean energy transition. Our clients range from advanced utilities in North America, Europe, and the Middle East to recently privatized utilities in developing countries.
- Tetra Tech Utility Maturity Model and performance improvement planning
- Rapid Resilience Diagnostic to maximize investment
- Decarbonization, resiliency, and capital investment planning
- Operations management and performance enhancement
- Utility modernization and commercialization
- Digital asset management and inspection
- Smart grid, digitalization, and automation
- Owner’s engineer for grid infrastructure
Energy Access and the Energy Nexus
Tetra Tech is improving livelihoods through distributed and resilient energy solutions that power health, cultivate sustainable agriculture, and advance inclusive economic prosperity. We look at the intersections between energy and activities that drive economic and social development.
- Energy policy and regulatory navigation
- Grant program design and management
- Results-based financing development and management
- Market segmentation research and market assessments
- Technical assistance, business acceleration, and access to finance for entrepreneurs and innovators
- Renewable energy feasibility studies at commercial and industrial sites
- Health facility electrification, operations, and maintenance planning
- Implementation of energy efficiency and renewable energy credit lines
Energy Security and Sector Reform
Tetra Tech works with governments and development agencies to open energy markets, secure supply, boost efficiency, and protect critical infrastructure.
- Policy, legal, and regulatory frameworks for renewable energy and security of supply
- Strategic energy planning
- Mobilizing investment for clean energy projects and critical infrastructure
- Technical and policy support to implement national energy-related global goals
- Strengthening and expanding electricity networks to maximize cross-border trade
- Advising and enhancing independence of energy regulators
- Assessing reform progress via a sector maturity model
- Cybersecurity strengthening to prevent and respond to threats to energy infrastructure
Women's Economic Empowerment
Tetra Tech is building a global energy sector that leverages the skills of all individuals, including women and other vulnerable groups in partner countries, to enhance self-reliance and power economic opportunities for all.
- Incorporate varied talent into energy and infrastructure initiatives, emphasizing family-oriented policies and benefits for clients and communities
- Organizational change management strategies that enhance performance through effective talent utilization and customer targeting
- Building workforce resilience and safety to prevent violence and harassment against women and girls in and around the energy sector
- Market-driven safeguard metrics and social due diligence for investment strategies to promote market participation and benefit sharing
- Risk assessment and opportunity mapping for investors using established criteria to identify avenues for responsible and impactful growth
- Women’s entrepreneurship across the energy value chain, empowering individuals and fostering community development
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