We provide custom and flexible support to help clients succeed. From very small projects to major initiatives, we bring our experience, creativity, curiosity and hard work to your specific challenges and opportunities.

We pay attention to communication and apply advanced skills in facilitation and group process, because bringing together diverse stakeholders and viewpoints is critical to making and sustaining the necessary changes that underlie large-scale energy initiatives.

We stay connected and partner for success, working within extensive networks of clean energy peers and colleagues in the private, public and non-profit sectors to ensure that solutions are informed by current best practices and comply with industry standards. We team with other well qualified consultants and contractors as appropriate to better meet client needs.

The ultimate purpose of energy programs is to make something happen: to cause measureable change due to the program’s work. We are practical change agents, and we want to help you create positive change now and help build your capacity for change in the future.

Great Work Energy is headed by Kim Crossman, who has twenty years of experience as a program and project developer and manager in the field of industrial energy efficiency, distributed generation, and business energy solutions. From 2009 to early 2017, Kim led the Energy Trust of Oregon’s award-winning resource acquisition programs for industry and agriculture, providing comprehensive technical services and incentives to support custom projects, efficient technologies, and ground breaking Strategic Energy Management offerings. Prior to that, Kim was a sales engineer for energy efficiency and distributed generation projects in Northern California, team lead of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Combined Heat and Power Partnership program in Washington D.C., and senior manager of technical research on commercial building performance at PECI in Portland, Ore.

Kim has been a frequent public speaker, facilitator and moderator throughout her career. She organized and facilitated Energy Trust’s Conservation Advisory Council of external stakeholders, is a founder of the Northwest SEM Collaborative and was co-chair of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) Industrial Summer Study in 2015. Kim received an Associate in Applied Science in energy management from the Northwest Energy Education Institute and is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) through the Association of Energy Engineers.