Our Services

Good Company Associates is a business development consulting and advocacy firm with expertise in energy efficiency, renewables, and smart grid technology, industry and policy within the Texas electricity market.

Business Development

We provide entrepreneurial services for existing businesses including direct operational, marketing and business development support where needed.  We can help new firms develop a business plan, identify allies, contact potential partners. We know the Texas market and can introduce clients to the customers and partners needed to establish a presence in Texas and succeed.  We can help win utility contracts, power purchase agreements, or resolve disputes.  We help companies capitalize on available incentives, grants, and funding opportunities. We provide market development advice and support to a variety of service providers and project developers, and continuously alert our clients to new business opportunities as they arise.  Through our government & regulatory affairs work (see below), we can bring together the stakeholders and policy changes needed to create a viable market for an innovative product or service where current conditions impede market formation or development.  We are positioned to help clean energy companies find a new home, or hire and train new staff.

Government & Regulatory Affairs

We provide governmental & regulatory affairs services, working closely with city officials, state agencies, the state legislature, and private stakeholders, to advance energy policy that is both good for our clients and good for Texas. Our team is experienced in legislative lobbying and regulatory intervention.  We work hard to develop and maintain relationships with local leadership of Texas cities and counties, as well as, chambers of commerce and civic and environmental organizations, each of whom is helping to shape the Texas economy.

Project Management

For companies expanding into the Texas market we can provide a virtual project development team, evaluating resources or opportunities, locating partners or staff, finding sites or customers, seeking grants or permits, monitoring progress or managing processes.

Coalition Building

Good Company Associates has a successful history of bringing together diverse groups of stakeholders to build coalitions, find consensus, and craft innovative public initiatives and policies. We have helped found, manage, and represent a number of consumer and industry coalitions, consortium, or trade associations, or their activities in Texas, including groups of large consumers, energy services companies, renewable energy companies, fuel cell manufacturers, and demand response aggregators.

Market Research & Economic Analysis

Good Company provides in-depth research and analytical support too.  Our expert team has evaluated smart-grid technologies for a new web-based service company, and for a venture capital firm; demand response markets for an international services company and several retail electric providers; the solar photovoltaic manufacturing industry for a large service company and a utility; market potential studies of energy efficiency, or renewables, for utilities; market pricing for new market entrants; and green job opportunities for the state.