Cascadia Renewables LLC

What Cascadia Renewables LLC does

Cascadia Renewables LLC is a Bellingham, Washington-based clean energy consultancy and project developer founded in 2022 that designs solar, battery energy storage, and microgrid projects for local governments, utilities, and private-sector clients across the Pacific Northwest. The firm offers end-to-end services spanning feasibility studies, system design, engineering coordination, owner's representation, grant strategy, and commissioning support, with implementation delivered through a sister-company arrangement with Sulis Energy.

The company's technical approach combines a proprietary three-pillar feasibility framework (Technical, Economic, Community) with the Xendee techno-economic optimization platform, used in partnership with MZ Solar Consulting to model seasonal solar production, critical load survivability, generator coordination, and dispatch strategies. A flagship project — the Orcas Center microgrid in the San Juan Islands — integrates 100 kW PV and 1,376 kWh of battery storage with a Fieldsight microgrid controller and OPALCO's DERMS platform over a fiber-optic connection, representing one of the first DERMS-connected community microgrids in the region.

Cascadia Renewables monetizes through professional services on a quote-based, project-by-project basis with no publicly disclosed pricing. Revenue streams include consulting and advisory fees plus grant strategy and funding support, with notable outcomes including a $2M Washington Department of Commerce Solar Power grant for the South Whidbey American Legion Post 141 and feasibility assessments for Thurston County's Solar Plus Storage for Resilient Communities program. The firm remains privately held with 1-10 employees, no disclosed external funding, and concentrated geographic operations in Washington State.

Name

Cascadia Renewables LLC

Legal name

Cascadia Renewables LLC

Website

https://cascadiarenewables.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cascadia Renewables LLC is a Pacific Northwest clean energy consultancy founded in 2022 that provides feasibility, design, grant strategy, and owner's-representation services for solar, storage, and microgrid projects serving local governments, utilities, and private-sector clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bellingham

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Consulting and Advisory Services: Professional services for feasibility studies, system design, engineering coordination, owner's representation, and project management for solar, storage, and microgrid projects.
2. Grant Strategy and Funding Support: Assistance with grant applications and funding strategies, including navigation of Washington Department of Commerce grants and Climate Commitment Act funding.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Cascadia Renewables is a clean energy consultancy and developer that helps public entities, businesses, and utilities accelerate solar, storage, and microgrid development through feasibility studies, system design, grant strategy, owner's representation, and project management. The company provides full lifecycle services from portfolio analysis and grant writing through engineering design, commissioning, and grant reporting for distributed energy projects in the Pacific Northwest.

Product overview

Cascadia Renewables is a mission-driven clean energy developer and consultancy offering a comprehensive suite of services for solar, energy storage, and microgrid projects. Their offerings span the full project lifecycle including development services (portfolio analysis, feasibility studies, grant writing), design services (on-site assessment, engineering, final design), and implementation services (owner's representation, construction management). Core products include solar plus storage systems and intelligent microgrid systems capable of operating islanded or grid-connected. The company specializes in DERMS-ready integration for utility grid flexibility and resilience hub planning for community emergency preparedness. Cascadia Renewables deploys these solutions for commercial, industrial, community, and small utility-scale applications, with implementation delivered through their sister company Sulis Energy.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Feasibility Studies
• System Design Services
• Development and Grant Writing Services
• Implementation and Owner's Representation Services
• Solar + Storage Systems
• Microgrid Systems
• Resilience Hub Planning

Quantifiable outcome

• 87% of facility's annual energy use offset
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• OPALCO (Orcas Power & Light Cooperative)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on the Orcas Center microgrid project, integrating the system with OPALCO's Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) platform. The fiber-based connection enables experimental dispatch signals for peak shaving, voltage regulation, and data gathering, marking one of the first DERMS-connected community microgrids in the San Juan Islands.
• MZ Solar ConsultingcoreTechnology or IntegrationPartnered with MZ Solar Consulting to run techno-economic simulations in Xendee for the Orcas Center microgrid project. MZ Solar translated preliminary system architecture into full simulation environment, modeling dozens of operational scenarios.
• XendeecoreTechnology or IntegrationMicrogrid optimization and techno-economic modeling platform used by Cascadia Renewables for system design validation, enabling rapid simulation of operational scenarios including seasonal solar production, critical load survivability, and dispatch strategies.
• Sulis EnergycoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerSister company and contractor partner providing turnkey installation services for projects where Cascadia Renewables serves as owner's representative. Sulis Energy connected the Fieldsight controller to OPALCO's fiber-optic network for the Orcas Center project.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Wood Group: Wood is a global engineering and consulting firm with renewables, storage, and grid services — a broad incumbent that competes for utility DER and microgrid advisory work.
• Burns & McDonnell: Burns & McDonnell is a major engineering, procurement, and construction firm with a strong microgrid and DER practice serving utilities and large industrial clients — comparable in microgrid engineering depth but at vastly greater scale and geographic reach.
• DNV: DNV provides independent energy consulting, technical advisory, and DER/microgrid services across renewables, storage, and grid integration — comparable technical advisory depth but globally scaled and broadly diversified.
• ICF International: ICF is a large advisory and digital solutions firm with a deep energy practice spanning utility regulation, DER integration, and climate strategy — overlapping with Cascadia's consulting and grid-modernization work but at significantly greater scale.
• PowerSecure (NSTAR/Southern Company): PowerSecure designs, installs, and operates distributed generation and microgrid systems for utilities and large commercial customers — a much larger incumbent serving similar end markets but with broader portfolio and balance sheet.

Direct peers

• BlocPower: BlocPower develops and finances building-level energy efficiency, electrification, and behind-the-meter solar + storage microgrid projects for nonprofits, municipalities, and commercial customers — a closely aligned business model serving similar community, government, and institutional clients.
• Enchanted Rock: Enchanted Rock provides natural-gas and renewable-powered resiliency microgrids to commercial, industrial, and institutional customers — a peer in distributed energy and on-site resilience solutions with overlapping go-to-market and customer profiles.
• Scale Microgrid Solutions: Scale Microgrid Solutions is a microgrid developer that designs, finances, and operates distributed energy systems for commercial, industrial, and institutional customers — directly comparable to Cascadia's microgrid consulting and development offering.

Others

• RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute): RMI is a clean energy think tank and consultancy working on DER, microgrid, and community resilience research and advisory — adjacent in mission and methodology but not a commercial competitor.
• Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA): CESA is a nonprofit coalition supporting state-level clean energy programs including resilience and solar-plus-storage grant design — an ecosystem participant whose grant programs generate Cascadia's customer pipeline.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cascadia-renewables

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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