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Practice Areas

Evaluation & Planning
Policy Development & Advocacy
Financial Assistance

Creating successful businesses around innovative energy and environmental technologies remains as challenging as ever despite the enthusiasms of many public officials. Markets are dominated by incumbent technologies, customers are risk adverse, and government policies often present as many obstacles as inducements.

AJW helps clients navigate and remove public policy barriers facing emerging technologies and secure policy improvements necessary to ensure meaningful market demand. To our knowledge, AJW is the only Washington, DC area policy firm formed for the distinct purpose of assisting next generation energy and environmental technology firms. We have extensive knowledge of energy and environmental policies, and understand the unique challenges faced by businesses in these markets.

Our role is to connect the needs of our clients to the goals of Federal policy makers in ways that meaningfully protect or enhance the client’s positioning within the rapidly evolving and increasingly competitive energy and environment related market sectors. AJW serves a wide array of businesses and trade associations. Our clients are producing some of the most exciting advancements in renewable energy, power generation and storage, waste-to-energy, energy efficiency, emission control technology, green manufacturing, smart grid, and other emerging energy/environment fields.

AJW focuses on three primary practice areas:

Evaluation & Planning
AJW supports our clients’ efforts to ensure their business plans:

  1. Are developed with a full understanding of the policies and politics that can expand or restrict their market opportunities, and

  2. Accurately anticipate policy and political developments ahead.

Policy Development & Advocacy
AJW has successfully developed and advocated policy proposals to enable clients to overcome market barriers, including key provisions in numerous current laws and regulations. Commercializing or deploying a company’s products can be a complex and potentially controversial in the energy and environmental markets. Our extensive experience allows us to develop and execute advocacy strategies that expand market demand and increase support for technology development and demonstration.

Financial Assistance
New technology firms can benefit from federal financial support for research, development, and deployment activities. Federal grant and loan programs are highly competitive and usually oversubscribed. Applicant’s need every competitive edge available. AJW facilitates the development of successful client applications for federal grants, loan guarantees, and other forms of financial assistance. Our client’s have an excellent record of success on applications we have supported.