Your partners for growth in an evolving energy sector.
We help our clients
The Ad Hoc Group (AHG) is a specialized consulting firm that accelerates growth for start-ups and innovative companies operating in a complex and highly-regulated energy sector. We source opportunities, advance deals, and shape regulations to ensure that our clients scale with the urgency that today's energy and climate challenges demand.
HOW WE HELP
The Ad Hoc Group offers a suite of services that help our clients drive topline revenue growth, shape the policy and regulatory environment, raise capital, and build out their internal go-to-market team.
WHO WE WORK WITH
The companies we work with are solving the toughest climate challenges.
Here is a selection of our past and present clients.
TESTIMONIALS
Sonia Kastner
Founder and CEO
Pano AI
"We wouldn't be where we are without The Ad Hoc Group team. They were instrumental in helping us understand our market and its regulatory drivers, refine our product offering and messaging, and close our first deals. Rather than arms-length advisors, they have been part of the Pano team from nearly day 1.”
Sam D’Amico
CEO
Impulse Labs
“Working with The Ad Hoc Group has been a great experience. They were super clutch when it came to closing a Series A in the difficult funding environment of 2022. They helped us get deals over the finish line by highlighting important policy tailwinds to investors, presenting complex information in an immediately understandable way.”
Carter Li
CEO
SWTCH
"The Ad Hoc Group developed an intimate knowledge of our business, our team, and what we needed in our first head of policy role. They then helped us hire an excellent leader, supported him as he hired additional members of the team, and then helped onboard them. They bring a lot more than recruiting to the table; they've actually done these jobs themselves so knew what we needed from the inside out and then set up our new hires for success.”
Kathy Hannun
President and Founder
Dandelion Energy
“The Ad Hoc Group has been an essential partner to the Dandelion team from early in our journey. Their ability to quickly understand the regulatory and and political dynamics of our market and translate that into a focused growth plan has ensured that we have invested our precious resources on the right markets at the right time.”
Latest from The Gist
The Gist is a monthly newsletter on the business, politics, and people of climate tech.
The Ad Hoc Gist: The Case for Utility Wildfire Suppression
Utilities have spent years reducing wildfire ignition risk, and much of that work has been necessary. But prevention has limits. Trees come down. Equipment fails. Lightning strikes. And when an ignition occurs, the first minutes can change the trajectory of an event.
In our latest piece, we argue that rapid suppression should be part of the utility wildfire conversation — not as a replacement for firefighters, but as part of a broader consequence-reduction strategy in the highest-risk areas. The question for regulators is no longer just: how do we prevent ignitions? But also: what is the plan for the fire that still starts?
The Ad Hoc Gist: Virginia Has a Data Center Problem
Virginia is ground zero for the country’s data center boom and affordability crunch. Coupled with a new governor and a recently announced mega merger between the state’s biggest utility, Dominion Power and NextEra, things in Virginia are getting spicy.
In this month’s Gist, my colleague Max Davidson and I look at the first 100 days of Governor Spanberger’s tenure and, specifically, how she and the legislature are responding to the Commonwealth’s energy challenges.
The Ad Hoc Gist: Inside the Octopus/Uplight Deal
The British are coming! Octopus Energy, the UK energy titan, announced it will acquire a majority stake in Uplight, which serves more than 85 utility customers in North America.
In this month’s Gist, we take you behind the scenes of the deal in a joint interview with Nick Chaset, who heads Octopus in North America, and Hannah Bascom, the GM of Uplight. What does this new partnership mean for the industry and why did it come together right now?