About Athena

The Athena Institute is an analyst firm with a collection of internationally regarded experts in progressive strategies and practical deployments to create Brilliant buildings, businesses, communities and utilities. Athena experts have successful track records in leveraging Smart (digital technologies, networks, sensors, etc.) and Green (advanced materials, resource approaches, etc.) solutions in a business case that enhances economics as well as the environment Smart+Green=Brilliant. We know where the future is heading, and our approaches create quick wins to start the transformation today.

Athena unleashes value from Smart+Green innovations and builds markets through research, events, consulting, and deployment of integrated solutions to transform energy systems. Clients include Fortune 1000 companies, utilities, solution providers, governments and investors.

  • Athena works with innovators, solution providers, and investors to pursue the best opportunities in this growing industry.
  • Athena works with businesses, building owners, developers and utilities to better leverage energy innovations that enhance their own approach to producing, delivering and using energy.
  • Athena works with entire regions to provide strategy and actions to transform their energy systems, and empower them to build a thriving new energy sector to compete in world markets.

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Athena Advantage

If you want to...
  • Find approaches that make good business sense.
  • Work with people who've solved the issues you face.
  • Access best-of-breed solutions and learn where innovation is heading.
  • You want Athena.

We understand there are smarter and greener solutions to most key energy issues

Beyond being more environmentally sound, these brilliant solutions need to be cost-effective, operationally reliable, resilient to threat and scalable. Our goal is to make sure the best solutions get to market more effectively.

We know what it takes to design and implement an integrated solution that ensures value

Our experts have designed and successfully deployed energy innovations--large energy supply projects, distributed generation programs, energy efficiency approaches and more. Athena experts have had an impact on the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars into sustainable energy.

We know where the future is heading and can create quick wins now

Athena tracks emerging energy technologies and trends in Smart+Green fuels and power generation, smart grid, storage, energy efficiency, brilliant building design, and distributed energy resources among others. We monitor R&D efforts and product innovations from universities, leading government and private research laboratories, and corporate R&D departments. We review best practices from tested solutions in the field. We compile evaluations of the brilliant solutions being deployed today and the state of the art solutions just hitting the market.