Evolved Energy Research
Charting pathways through the energy transition with advanced analytics
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The Costs You Can't Bill: Data Centers and the Price of Load Growth
A data center pays for what it can be billed for. Its largest costs — higher gas bills, electricity bills, and equipment prices for everyone else — belong to no one.
Our Models, Now Yours to Run
Evolved builds the energy models it runs in-house. As AI lowers the barrier to picking them up, we have begun licensing them to more clients.
Solving the Reconductor-or-Greenfield Problem
A new capacity-expansion model fuses long-range planning with nodal power-flow physics — and reveals when reconductoring is powerful, when greenfield is necessary, and why Texas needs both.
Our Practice
What We Do
Research is our purpose. We live for the unexplored question.
Research Engagements
A typical engagement with us lasts 2 to 4 months, with three project phases: Leverage experience to clearly articulate research questions, seed models with project-specific input data and generate results, and synthesize model results and insights.
Expert Consulting
Hire us to host workshops on specific topics, share insights based on past research findings, or provide guidance on your own analytical efforts. We've contributed our expertise to research performed by leading NGOs, academic research groups, national labs, and energy consulting firms.
Model Licensing
License our analytical tools to perform your own in-house analysis. We provide training, documentation and high-touch ongoing technical support. Our licensing clients include Fortune 500 electric utilities, large consulting firms and academic researchers.
Built In-House
Our Modeling Platforms
We combine creative problem-solving with technical expertise. Our modeling platforms were developed in-house over years of crafting—versatile, adaptable, and robust.
EnergyPATHWAYS
A bottom-up demand-side forecasting model with detailed energy system accounting — sales, stocks, service demands, costs, and equipment-level energy bill components.
RIO
A capacity expansion model that co-optimizes investment and dispatch across electricity, fuels, and demand sectors over multi-decade horizons with high temporal resolution.
RIO-ENSEMBLE
A Modeling to Generate Alternatives framework that explores hundreds of near-optimal system configurations, revealing the full range of plausible energy futures rather than a single least-cost answer.
Emporium
A production cost model integrating with RIO for detailed unit commitment, long-duration storage, and multi-sector coupling across electricity, hydrogen, and fuels.
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Ready to Navigate the Energy Transition?
We empower clients—from government agencies and utilities, to corporations, nonprofits, and research organizations—with advanced analytics and strategies.
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