AltaTerra Research

AltaTerra Research is a research consultancy specializing in sustainable business and the expanding commercial marketplace for clean technology solutions. Through research reports, executive educational events and advisory services, AltaTerra helps forward-looking organizations improve resource-efficiency in their operations and capitalize on new 'green' market opportunities. From our headquarters in Silicon Valley, we have been serving a global base of corporate, institutional, and government clients since 2007.

The AltaTerra Advantage

We provide independent, customer-focused research on emerging products, services, markets, and implementation success factors - information our clients find critical for making effective, fact-based spending and investment decisions.


Our work is organized around subject areas essential to sustainable business:
* Sustainability Strategy
* Enterprise Carbon Management
* Building Resource Management
* Renewable Energy & Green Power
* Product Innovation
* Marketing & Stakeholder Communications
* IT & Data Center Energy Efficiency
* Supply Chain Operations
* Employee & Workplace Solutions

AltaTerra Research principals, who typically have decades of business experience, are known for their coupling of domain knowledge and functional expertise with insights from our current research. Depending on the needs of our clients and scope of each project, our analysts collaborate to create innovative approaches.

We specialize in executive-level advisory services for solution planning and 'green' market development programs. Our consultants address such topics as large-scale commercial, industrial and utility solar power, corporate carbon footprint reduction, building energy monitoring, sustainability reporting, energy efficiency services, product lifecycle analysis and environmentally-friendly product development.

We monitor key regulatory and market developments, providing executive-level education to keep our clients up-to-date on emerging market forces and solution trends. Our work with environmental nonprofits, academia, and other organizations ensures that we are continually expanding our collaborative knowledge base.

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List of reports from AltaTerra Research

Facility Resource Management Solutions: Emerging IT Tools Reshape Building Energy Management
11/21/2011 | published by: AltaTerra Research
... States, nearly 30 percent of which is wasted through inefficiency. Historically, building management systems (BMS) were designed primarily to manage occupant comfort and building operations, and have lacked the advanced analytics necessary to optimize resource ...  |  more...
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$2,295.00
Software Solutions for Engaging Employees in Sustainability
9/15/2011 | published by: AltaTerra Research
... way high-level goals apply today-to-day operations. Employees often need help translating general objectives and interest in sustainability into actions that make a difference for the organization. Managers are using many different communication and engagement methods ...  |  more...
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$432.00
Municipalities & Utilities Take Leading Roles in PEV Readiness - Solutions Deployment Brief
8/15/2011 | published by: AltaTerra Research
... and manufacturers are interested in the potential for PEVs, especially with the rise in gas prices, CAFE standards, and general concerns for the environment. But before PEVs can be widely adopted, charging infrastructure must be ...  |  more...
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$198.00
Enterprise Sustainability Management Solutions: Reference Architecture & Buyer's Guide
6/1/2011 | published by: AltaTerra Research
... meant new information management and process control challenges, around energy use, water use, solid waste, toxic materials, carbon emissions and other factors - inside the organization and across the value chain. These requirements vary dramatically ...  |  more...
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$2,995.00
Solar Water Heating on the Rise: Tapping into Commercial Solar Thermal
4/4/2011 | published by: AltaTerra Research
... support in the past and recently slowed by low natural gas prices, has nonetheless benefited from new government incentives and an increase in customers exploring renewable energy to meet resource reduction goals and hedge against ...  |  more...
$2,595.00
Green Innovation in Business Network, 2010 Solutions Labs Series Summary Report
2/9/2011 | published by: AltaTerra Research
... stakeholders. Inside their organizations, they are institutionalizing sustainability by setting up behavior-changing policies, processes, and programs. Many organizations are beginning to follow this lead. Their focus is on making the business case for sustainability to ...  |  more...
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$120.00
Utility Solar: U.S. Market Takes Off
11/1/2010 | published by: AltaTerra Research
... all the largest projects, and project case studies. The utility segment is now on a par with commercial and residential segments by volume and growing faster—by a factor of ten. In 2010, the segment grew ...  |  more...
$480.00
Green Teams and Value: Engaging Employees in Meeting Sustainability Goals
9/21/2010 | published by: AltaTerra Research
... shapes and sizes. And surprisingly, they may not be officially connected to an organization’s full-time efficiency efforts, environmental management, or corporate responsibility. The story that is still developing is how green teams can most effectively ...  |  more...
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$290.00
The Sustainable Corporation 2010: Solutions from the Innovation Economy
5/1/2010 | published by: AltaTerra Research
... embracing new practices in their operations, products, and value chains -- generating cost savings and growth opportunities. This report features key takeaways from the Silicon Valley Leadership Group's March 2010 conference "The Sustainable Corporation 2010: ...  |  more...
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$40.00
Greening the Company Website: A New Era in Sustainability Reporting
1/7/2010 | published by: AltaTerra Research
... community-building tools that keep stakeholders up-to-date and involved. In this study, we evaluated the websites of sixty companies recognized as sustainability leaders and distilled eight essential attributes common to effective online communication and engagement. Many ...  |  more...
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$398.00
Palo Alto Cuts Carbon with Hara
10/2/2009 | published by: AltaTerra Research
... Alto Cuts Carbon with Hara,” AltaTerra Research presents a case study of Palo Alto’s implementation of carbon management software from Hara Software, Inc. The case study provides context for Palo Alto’s decision to put a ...  |  more...
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$295.00
Carbon Management Solutions: Business Value through a New Lens
6/9/2009 | published by: AltaTerra Research
... their carbon footprint and the strategic importance of carbon as an asset or a liability. A new information systems category, carbon management solutions, enables businesses to analyze and monitor energy use and greenhouse gas emissions ...  |  more...
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$711.00
Greening the Data Center: Organizing Framework for Sustainable Energy Efficiency
3/4/2009 | published by: AltaTerra Research
... but this issue is by no means just a question of technology: IT managers must also confront the challenge from an architectural and business standpoint. There is a large body of work available on energy ...  |  more...
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$475.00
Solar Employee Purchase Programs: Will Corporate Customers Take It Home?
11/7/2008 | published by: AltaTerra Research
... and SolarCity, representing a new and potentially important channel for increasing sales and improving sales efficiency. External drivers of these programs are corporate sustainability initiatives and growth in voluntary employee benefit offerings, especially green benefits. ...  |  more...
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$1,580.00
 

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