What Visage Energy does

Visage Energy Corp. is a privately held clean energy technology consulting firm headquartered in Culver City, California, founded in 1990 by Will Johnson after a 15-year banking career at Bank of America and Union Bank focused on lending to electric and gas utilities and oil & gas producers. The firm provides advisory services across carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), direct air capture (DAC), smart grid, and natural gas markets, serving corporate clients, technology developers, government agencies, and academic/research institutions. Core service offerings include Community Stakeholder Engagement, Technology Commercialization Advisory, and Industry/Market Analysis.

The firm developed and licenses the Funds Transfer Agent Agreement (FTAA), a specialized natural gas financing mechanism co-developed with Southern California Gas Company, Union Bank of California, and the U.S. Department of Energy, supported by FTAA CD-ROM products offering automation features and error-checking integrated with NAESB standards. Visage also developed a commercialization methodology in collaboration with SRI International. Technical work spans DOE-funded projects including CO2 capture (Linde-BASF demonstration), industrial CCUS for the steel sector (ArcelorMittal HBI facility with Air Liquide), and DAC regional hub initiatives across Colorado, Florida, the Appalachian region, Indiana, and Texas, alongside grid-modernization efforts such as the Smart Grid Stakeholders' Collaborative Initiative and Western Transmission Integration Planning.

Visage Energy generates revenue primarily through professional services engagements—stakeholder engagement advisory, technology commercialization consulting, and market analysis—supplemented by licensing of FTAA documentation tools. As a 1-10 employee boutique firm operating for more than three decades under sole ownership of Will Johnson, the company operates as a project partner (not prime contractor) on DOE-funded consortia with federal cost shares ranging from $4.3 million to $72 million, alongside direct engagements with corporations such as BP, SCE, PG&E, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Kiewit, Linde, and Air Liquide. The firm maintains no external funding rounds and pursues no M&A activity.

Name

Visage Energy

Legal name

Visage Energy Corp.

Website

https://visageenergy.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Visage Energy Corp. is a Culver City-based boutique clean energy consulting firm providing stakeholder engagement, technology commercialization, and market analysis services to utilities, oil & gas majors, technology developers, and academic institutions on CCUS, DAC, and grid modernization projects.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Clean Energy Consulting

NAICS

Environmental Consulting Services (54162)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Climate Finance Strategy (CapEx planning, green finance, incentives & grants) (EUABAKAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Supplier Engagement & Value-Chain Decarbonization Programs (EUABAKAE), Permitting, Siting & Environmental Impact (EIA/NEPA) Advisory (EUAMANAB), Grid Interconnection, Transmission Policy & Market Rules (EUAMANAC), Corporate & Voluntary Procurement Policy (PPAs, Green Tariffs, 24/7 CFE) (EUAMANAH)

Keywords

• Clean energy consulting
• Stakeholder engagement services
• Carbon capture advisory
• Technology commercialization
• Energy project financing

Headquarters

HQ city

Culver City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Strategic Consulting Services: Provides consulting services for all aspects of clean energy and carbon management technology projects. Services include market analysis, stakeholder engagement, project management, and strategic advisory work for technology developers, major corporations, and end-users. Revenue is generated through professional service engagements with government, private sector, and academic clients.
2. FTAA Licensing and Training: Offers FTAA CD-ROM products containing instructions and guidance on implementing the Funds Transfer Agent Agreement financing mechanism. The Enhanced CD-ROM includes automation features with embedded logic for generating FTAA documents. Revenue generated through licensing terms for these products.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Visage Energy Corp. provides consulting services for clean energy and carbon management technology projects, including community stakeholder engagement, technology commercialization advisory, and industry/market analysis delivered to major energy corporations, utilities, technology developers, and academic institutions. The firm also developed and licenses the Funds Transfer Agent Agreement (FTAA), a specialized natural gas financing mechanism, along with FTAA CD-ROM software products containing document automation logic, and facilitates multi-stakeholder collaborative initiatives on carbon capture, smart grid, and transmission planning.

Product overview

Visage Energy Corp. is a clean energy technology-consulting firm that provides advisory and professional services rather than a unified software product. The company's portfolio consists of consulting service offerings including Community Stakeholder Engagement, Technology Commercialization Advisory, and Industry/Market Analysis, which together help clients accelerate technology commercialization and project development by soliciting stakeholder input. The company also offers the Funds Transfer Agent Agreement (FTAA), a specialized natural gas financing mechanism with associated CD-ROM software products (FTAA CD-ROM and FTAA Enhanced CD-ROM) for document generation. Additionally, Visage Energy facilitates several stakeholder collaborative initiatives focused on CCS technologies, smart grid, and transmission planning.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Community Stakeholder Engagement Engages historically marginalized communities impacted by project activities, assesses potential effects on local regions, conducts stakeholder mapping, and facilitates information exchange through focus groups, small-group discussions, and educational workshops. Designed for clients deploying clean energy and carbon management projects across the United States.
• Technology Commercialization Advisory Applies a commercialization methodology developed with SRI International to accelerate technology commercialization by soliciting stakeholder perspectives and factoring them into macro- and micro-level project deployment dimensions. Assists technology developers in translating industry needs into technical specifications for clean energy and carbon management technologies.
• Industry/Market Analysis Assists clients in formulating business frameworks for commercialization, including business models, market analysis, risk management factors, and financial projections. Performs regulatory impact assessments for emerging technologies and energy projects.
• Funds Transfer Agent Agreement (FTAA) A specialized financing facility designed to help eligible parties purchase natural gas without the typical requirement of posting a Letter of Credit. Developed in collaboration with Southern California Gas Co., Union Bank of California, and the Department of Energy. Uses NAESB-approved FTAA documents and has successfully supported billions of dollars in natural gas transactions.
• FTAA CD-ROM CD-ROM containing hyperlinked documents providing a step-by-step tutorial for executing FTAA transactions, MS Word document templates for NAESB-approved FTAA documents, and hints and tips for folder hierarchy. Designed for parties implementing the FTAA natural gas financing mechanism.
• FTAA Enhanced CD-ROM Advanced version of the FTAA CD-ROM with automation features, including embedded logic that scans input documents for LDC Repurchaser and Producer company information and generates required FTAA documents for Agreement #1 and Agreement #2, with profile-saving capability.
• CCS Stakeholders' Collaborative Initiative A forum for presentations and informative discussions by diverse stakeholders on CCS technology characteristics, benefits, and commercial viability, with periodic meetings to assess trends shaping CCS policy and projects in California.
• Smart Grid Stakeholders' Collaborative Initiative An initiative to promote deployment of High Performance Computing capabilities of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory within smart grid and cyber security context, encouraging collaboration among grid modeling stakeholders.
• Western Transmission Integration Planning Stakeholders' Collaborative An interagency engagement initiative on transmission planning and siting within the Western region, convening DOE, CPUC, DOE NETL Lab Director, CARB Director, CEC President, CA IOUs CEOs, and other stakeholders for collaborative discussion.

Quantifiable outcome

• Successfully supported billions of dollars in natural gas transactions through the FTAA financing mechanism
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers17 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

27 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• University of Illinois (UIUC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary project partner in multiple DOE-funded carbon management projects including Linde-BASF CO2 capture, Illinois Basin DAC Hub, Illinois Basin West CarbonSAFE, and DAC projects in Colorado and Florida. UIUC leads these multi-institutional efforts with Visage providing business case analysis, community stakeholder engagement, and workforce revitalization expertise.
• Linde GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Large Pilot Testing of Linde-BASF Advanced Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Technology at coal-fired power plant. Linde provides the advanced CO2 capture process incorporating BASF's novel solvent technology.
• BASF CorporationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Linde-BASF Advanced Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Technology project. BASF provides the novel solvent technology for the capture system.
• Air LiquidecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Industrial Carbon Capture from Hot Briquetted Iron Manufacturing Facility using Cryocap FG Technology. Air Liquide provides its pressure swing adsorption-assisted Cryocap technology to capture CO2 emissions.
• SRI InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic engagement established to offer clients both business expertise and technical assistance. Visage Energy uses commercialization methodology developed with SRI for energy technology projects.
• Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with Visage Energy, Union Bank of California, and DOE to develop the Funds Transfer Agent Agreement (FTAA), a specialized financing facility for natural gas transactions.
• Union Bank of CaliforniacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with Visage Energy, SoCalGas, and DOE to develop the FTAA. Union Bank serves as the FTA Bank in the financing mechanism, receiving funds from Repurchasers and paying Producers.
• CarbonCapture Inc.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDAC technology provider in the FEED study of Direct Air Capture and Utilization Technologies using U.S. Steel's Gary Works Plant Waste Heat project.
• CarbonCureminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCO2 conversion technology provider in the DACUS project converting captured CO2 into concrete products at U.S. Steel's Gary Works.
• University of KentuckyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Appalachian Prosperity DAC Hub project and Carbon Capture Pilot at Cane Run Generating Station. UK provides solvent-flexible carbon capture technology.
• Hatch Associates Consultants Inc.minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEngineering consulting partner in the Industrial Carbon Capture from HBI facility project using Cryocap FG technology.
• ArcelorMittalminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHost site provider for the Industrial Carbon Capture from HBI facility project at their Texas Hot Briquetted Iron facility emitting approximately 1 million tonnes of CO2 per year.
• voestalpine Texas LLCminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProject partner in the Industrial Carbon Capture from HBI facility project.
• Carbon AmericaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner involved with Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonSAFE) study for geologic storage within the Colorado (Pueblo) DAC Hub location.
• NextEra EnergyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRenewable energy developer partner in the Colorado (Pueblo) Regional DAC Hub project.
• Kentucky Utilities Company / PPL CorporationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProject lead for Carbon Capture Pilot at Cane Run Generating Station. Visage Energy is a collaborator on this project providing stakeholder engagement expertise.
• Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborator on the Carbon Capture Pilot at Cane Run Generating Station project.
• Kentucky State UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborator on the Carbon Capture Pilot at Cane Run Generating Station project.
• Koch Modular Process SystemsminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerSupport for design, fabrication, and construction of the carbon capture unit on the Cane Run Generating Station project.
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVisage Energy advised LLNL on appropriate structure for R&D partnership and coordinated stakeholder visits and roundtable discussions for Smart Grid Stakeholders' Collaborative Initiative to promote High Performance Computing capabilities within smart grid and cyber security context.
• California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKey participant in Western Transmission Integration Planning Stakeholders' Collaborative and recipient of Champion of Diversity recognition in conjunction with UMAP/NARUC.
• California Energy Commission (CEC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on CCS Stakeholders' Collaborative Initiative and Smart Grid initiatives. CEC President participated in Western Transmission Integration Planning Stakeholders' Collaborative.
• California Air Resources Board (CARB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on CCS Stakeholders' Collaborative Initiative and Tulare County Carbon Storage Project permitting activities under low carbon fuel standard certification specifications.
• CAISOcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on CCS Stakeholders' Collaborative Initiative and grid planning initiatives involving transmission integration.
• WESTCARBcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with West Coast Regional Carbon Capture Sequestration Partnership to foster environment encouraging and accelerating CCS deployment as carbon-management tool.
• Department of Energy (DOE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with SoCalGas, Union Bank of California, and Visage Energy to develop the FTAA. DOE provides recognition as Outstanding Business Person and funds multiple project partnerships through Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law programs.
• NAESBcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVisage Energy's FTAA uses NAESB-approved FTAA documents. NAESB provides the standards framework for the Funds Transfer Agent Agreement transaction models.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Ramboll: Engineering, design, and sustainability consultancy with a significant energy transition practice supporting utilities, industrials, and DAC/CCUS developers — competes for adjacent project advisory and stakeholder work.
• Guidehouse: Energy and sustainability consulting arm advising utilities and governments on decarbonization, grid modernization, and CCUS strategy; overlaps with Visage's stakeholder engagement and clean energy commercialization work.
• Stantec: Global engineering and environmental services firm active in CCUS, DAC, grid modernization, and energy project advisory; competes with Visage on the engineering-consulting side of clean energy project deployment.
• Booz Allen Hamilton: Large federal and energy consulting incumbent with growing climate/clean energy practice supporting DOE and utility clients; competes for the same federal-funded stakeholder engagement and commercialization mandates as Visage, but at significantly larger scale.

Direct peers

• South Pole Group: Climate consulting firm advising corporates and developers on carbon strategy, CCUS, and decarbonization project development; comparable to Visage on the carbon-management consulting and stakeholder engagement axis.
• ICF International: Global consulting and digital services firm with a large energy, environment, and climate practice that advises utilities, governments, and technology developers on clean energy deployment, CCUS, and stakeholder engagement — directly competitive with Visage Energy's core service lines.
• ERM (Environmental Resources Management): Global environmental and sustainability consultancy delivering stakeholder engagement, permitting support, and clean energy project advisory to corporates and developers — closely comparable to Visage's community stakeholder engagement and technology commercialization services.

Emerging players

• RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute): Clean energy think tank and consulting organization advising on CCUS, climate strategy, and energy transition deployment; overlaps with Visage's thought-leadership and commercialization methodology work.
• CarbonCure (advisory arm / sibling services): Carbon utilization technology company that, like Visage's CCUS advisory, operates at the intersection of industrial decarbonization and stakeholder engagement; comparable as a participant in DOE-funded CCUS project portfolios.
• Carbon America: CCUS project developer working on CarbonSAFE-style geologic storage and DAC hub deployments alongside Visage as a project partner; comparable as a participant in the same DOE-funded Colorado DAC hub ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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