- Consulting and training in the use of various Artificial Intelligence tools for corporate and business strategy and tactics. This includes market and customer research on market size, potential, and trend reports.
- New technology assessment, particularly in the energy, water, and transportation industries.
- Customer education and awareness building.
- AI and digital research, review, and evaluation using online databases and reports. This includes developing informative infographics, maps, web content and training materials. Content development using a variety of digital tools, including Canva, Paint, AI apps, including Chat GPT, Majai, and Copilot, among others.
- Corporate market positioning and internal training.
- Marketing, product plans, and business plans.
- International business travel planning, risk assessment, and logistics.
Specialized domain areas include:
- Monitoring Texas water supply and demand trends, including tracking Texas Water Development Board activity, plans, and policies.
- Monitoring news media reports on Texas water development and grants. This is a complex market that fits perfectly into the need for a balanced, larger systems model to understand micro-level issues that exist in the state, even the interdependency of water and electric supply, distribution and consumption.
- Monitoring changes in water supply and distribution trends in Texas and elsewhere, including the impacts of growing data centers and impacts on local water systems, costs, and possible shortages.
- Water distribution system restructuring, joint ventures and consolidation. A key recommendation in a recent published volume of one of our principals. (Texas Water 101: Forging Resilience Through Innovation and Adaptation). Available at chemediagroup.com.
- Corporate strategy planning and deployment.
- Energy and water conservation.
- Renewable energy.
- Sustainability, social responsibility, marketing, climate change, and carbon footprint assessment and reporting.
- Policy and program analysis.
- Technology diffusion of innovations.
- Professional report development, review, editing, and distribution.
- Employee training and workshops.
- Digital content development, infographics, and implementation.
Global Experience
Our principals have extensive international experience advising governments, utilities, and private-sector organizations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. This global perspective enables us to recognize patterns, risks, and opportunities that emerge when infrastructure systems, markets, and environmental pressures intersect.
Leading Projects Completed
- Completed business plans for the creation of energy service businesses for leading American utilities.
- Completed water and energy conservation plans for a leading utility in the United Arab Emirates.
- Completed water and electricity energy conservation program workshops in Saudi Arabia for the major water supplier in the country.
- Estimated the value of weather forecast accuracy for selected leading American grid operators and electric utilities collaborating with the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
- Managed electricity purchasing and portfolio management for the largest transportation commuter rail network in the world and for the leading subway, rail, shipping, and airport authority in the United States.
- Staffed and managed the Governor’s “War Room” during the California Electricity Crisis in 2001 liasoning with the California agencies, including the California Water Association, PUC, and California Energy Commission.
- Completed a proposal on leak detection services to a Texas water utility for a leak detection contractor.
- Completed numerous least cost planning projects for electricity, natural gas, and heating markets in Europe for the European Commission. These projects were viewed as model designs for designing and implementing low, medium, and higher cost demand reduction using transparent cost/benefit analysis methodology. Collaboration with European utilities and government agencies was a requirement.
