Plan the whole opportunity, not just the equipment.
Energy security is connected to economic security. Reliable power can enable housing, food systems, local businesses, communications, training, infrastructure, and new investment. We help communities understand those connections, build the plan, assemble the right partners and funding, and carry projects into delivery.
Centred around community priorities.
Each area around them depends on and strengthens the others. Plan one well and it becomes the foundation for the next.
- Energy security
- Housing
- Food
- Jobs & skills
- Local business
- Water
- Connectivity
- Transportation
- Resilience
- Infrastructure
A power project can also be a housing project, a food project, a workforce project, or the infrastructure that makes another economic opportunity possible.
Start with what the community is trying to make possible.
A project rarely stands alone. New housing may depend on power, water, roads, workforce, and financing. A food project may depend on growing infrastructure, cold storage, training, energy, and local operations. A new business may depend on connectivity, transportation, utilities, and procurement.
We help identify those connections early so projects can be planned in the right order and built around long-term community value.
From priorities to lasting value.
Our role can begin before there is a defined project and continue through planning, funding, delivery, training, and long-term operations.
- Stage 01
Understand the opportunity
Community & economic development planning
We work with leadership, community members, economic-development teams, and project partners to understand priorities, constraints, opportunities, and the infrastructure that connects them.
- Holistic economic development planning
- Community energy and resilience planning
- Opportunity and priority mapping
- Infrastructure and dependency analysis
- Community engagement and decision support
- Stage 02
Test what is possible
Feasibility & project development
Before choosing equipment or applying for funding, we help test whether an idea makes sense technically, operationally, economically, and logistically.
- Feasibility studies
- Business cases
- Market and opportunity assessments
- Site and infrastructure requirements
- Preliminary budgets and implementation pathways
- Stage 03
Build the project
Funding, capital & partner strategy
We help turn viable ideas into fundable, investable projects by building the budget, identifying funding pathways, matching partners, and clarifying delivery roles.
- Funding scans and grant strategy
- Grant and funding applications
- Capital stacking and project budgets
- Technology and supplier matching
- Institutional and delivery partnerships
- Stage 04
Prepare people and businesses
Workforce, training & local economic benefits
Every project creates choices about who installs it, operates it, maintains it, supplies it, and benefits from it. We help plan those opportunities before construction begins.
- Workforce and skills planning
- Training pathways
- Youth opportunities
- Local hiring and procurement
- Community-owned business opportunities
- Stage 05
Deliver it
Project coordination & implementation
We help bring the right suppliers, specialists, installers, partners, and project controls together so the plan can move into practical delivery.
- Project management
- Procurement support
- Scopes of work
- Supplier and installer coordination
- Commissioning and handoff planning
- Stage 06
Keep the value local
Ownership, operations & long-term support
The project should leave behind more than equipment. We help plan for local ownership, operating capacity, maintenance, monitoring, and the next opportunities the project can unlock.
- Local operating models
- Community Energy Hubs
- Maintenance and service planning
- Performance monitoring
- Next-stage project development
Start with the need, not the product.
IES brings together technology suppliers, training organizations, research institutions, project specialists, funding partners, and delivery teams around community priorities.
We help identify which technologies and partners are worth exploring, how they fit together, and what needs to be confirmed before a project moves ahead.
Plan the local benefits before the project is built.
Projects can create opportunities in installation, operations, maintenance, procurement, administration, environmental monitoring, training, and local business.
IES and Unify can help communities identify where local participation is realistic, what skills are needed, what training pathways could help, and where community-owned or local businesses may have a role.
- Local hiring pathways
- Training and upskilling
- Youth participation
- Local procurement
- Operations and maintenance roles
- Community-owned enterprise
Specialist services that can plug into the plan.
Studies & assessments
Research and analysis to support planning, funding, and investment decisions.
- Labour market and workforce studies
- Economic-development studies
- Feasibility studies
- Market and business analysis
- Housing and building assessments
- Energy assessments
Environmental & resilience
Planning and coordination for environmental risk, infrastructure resilience, and long-term stewardship.
- Environmental monitoring
- Spill preparedness
- Remediation coordination
- Water resilience
- Wildfire and flood resilience
- Critical-infrastructure planning
Innovation & pilots
Structured ways to explore emerging technologies before committing to broader deployment.
- Pilot planning
- Technology demonstrations
- Research partnerships
- Roles and risk allocation
- Evaluation criteria
- Scaling decisions
Build the funding strategy around the project.
We identify funding opportunities early, help shape applications, and work through project budgets, eligible costs, timing, and potential capital sources.
Funding depends on program eligibility, timing, project fit, and approval.
Delivery is coordinated, not improvised.
We coordinate the qualified installers, suppliers, specialists, and technical partners a project requires, and build training and long-term support into delivery wherever possible.
Some projects unlock the next ones.
- Reliable powerenables housing, water, connectivity, or food infrastructure
- Infrastructureenables local businesses and service delivery
- Training and local operationskeep more project value in the community
- Stronger local capacitysupports larger future opportunities
The right sequence depends on the community. The goal is not to build everything at once, but to understand which investments create the strongest foundation for what comes next.
What a good plan leaves behind.
- A clearer investment roadmap.
- Projects in the right order.
- Funding-ready opportunities.
- Local jobs and training pathways.
- Stronger local businesses.
- Infrastructure that enables the next project.
- People who know how to operate what gets built.
- Long-term local value.
What is your community trying to make possible?
You do not need to know which technology, funding program, or project structure you need. Start with the priority.