SGA Energy Limited

SGA Energy Limited, founded in 1988, is a trusted Canadian sustainable energy and climate changeconsulting firm based in Eastern Ontario, close to Canada’s capital, Ottawa. Building on its extensive network SGA Energy has provided professional engineering and socioeconomic services through individuals or in teams to projects in developing countries wordwide and in Canada’s rural and First Nation communities for the last quarter century.

Our technology expertise and experience is broad:

1. We provide policy, feasibility / design consulting and project management services for an array of sustainable energy options that include energy efficiency in commercial buildings and renewable energy technologies (small hydro, wind, biomass, and solar).

2. We are energy specialists in rural electrification working both on and off-grid to plan the most practical and cost effective solutions;

3. We are specialists in greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory and mitigation. We help build both National and Facility inventories of GHG and work with clients to develop and manage strategies for GHG mitigation.

Why does hiring SGA make sense?

We offer:

• Professional services tailored to your needs;
• Policy and feasibility services that are backed by years of professional service;
• Wide international experience connecting energy and development issues in nearly 20 developing countries and Canada’s rural and First Nation communities;
• Broad experience with energy systems that ranges from integration into modern grids to placement in remote, off-grid locations;
• Up-to-date evaluation of financial/business performance along with technical design criteria;
• On-the-ground support services that include user demand surveys, due diligence analysis, training, facilitation, monitoring / evaluation and project management.

Services

SGA, through an established network of trusted specialists, provides a wide array of services. We are technologically savvy particularly around issues of sustainable energy and climate change.

Depending on the challenge, we also regularly combine technical know-how with an array of “softer” skills such as specialized social science research, capacity building and training, economic analysis, program development and management, due diligence and business planning as well as monitoring and evaluation. In other words, we take a comprehensive view of the challenges of technical change and development.

This broad range of services is particularly effective when SGA is faced with challenges of under-development. We have experience working at village and government levels in nearly twenty developing countries providing technology solutions and programs for sustainable energy solutions and the reduction of GHG. We have applied these same skills to Canadian aboriginal communities.

A sample of projects showing our range of services includes:

• Policy and programming for renewable energy in China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and North Korea;
• An Impact Analysis of RETScreen International for Natural Resources Canada
• Project Development and Management for LED-solar lighting: off-grid applications
• Photovoltaic Power System Design and Specifications
• Biomass Combustion Systems (BCS): Pre-feasibility Analysis
• Due Diligence: Proposal evaluation for technical, financial and corporate standards
• Monitoring of Photovoltaic-Genset Hybrid Power Systems
• Long term planning for Renewable Energy in the Uttar Pradesh Utility, India
• Rural Electrification Master Plan Specialist – the Philippines
• Training and Facilitation: The Canada-China Cooperation in Climate Change Project
• Renewable Energy Technology Screen (RETScreen) Program Development and Training
• Facilitation Services for the Establishment of a National Industrial Biomass Network in Canada