CRATOS CAN · Clean Energy

Sustainable Energy for Industry

Shed light on your energy transition with pragmatic, technology-agnostic support across strategy, analysis, financing, project delivery, engineering, risk and regulatory compliance.

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  • Green power & clean hydrogen
  • Biogas, biofuels & electrification
  • Efficiency, storage & off-grid power

For industry, data centres, utilities and project developers

Energy Resilience

Companies bring us the energy decisions that have no obvious answer. Projects stall for reasons that have little to do with the technology: nobody has committed to buy the output, lenders cannot price a first-of-a-kind risk, five routes look equally plausible on paper, heat and power and carbon are decided by different people at different times, and the number the board approved was never accurate enough to fund.

We design and model the system end to end, put every credible option through the same technical, economic and regulatory test, and take it to a number that holds in front of a board and a lender.

OfftakeFind and qualify buyers and shape terms the project can be financed against.
FundingConnect grants, concessional debt and lender requirements into one route toward close.
TechnologyScreen credible routes on common terms and identify the option that fits the site.
The whole systemModel heat, power, storage, carbon and offtake together rather than as separate decisions.

The energy market is in the middle of a transformation, and it is unlikely to settle back into the shape most plans were built on. Demand is growing faster than the infrastructure can follow, and competition for grid connection is likely to keep growing with it — which makes the case for a project, and its place in the queue, matter as much as the technology behind it. Efficiency and smarter consumption turn into a real advantage, and it would be reasonable to expect pricing to move with the pressure.

Energy Resilience — what we actually do

01 · Secure the energy

The constraint clients feel first

Grid connection & power supply

Load profile, connection route and options — with time to power.

Process heat & steam

Temperature-led decarbonisation of heat — heat pumps to hydrogen.

Storage & flexibility

Sizing and revenue stack — battery, thermal and hydrogen storage.

02 · Decide with numbers

Before capital is committed

Energy strategy

Baseline, target picture and investment roadmap — tied to production.

Feasibility & analysis

Options compared technically and economically — one model, sensitivities included.

Carbon intensity & certification

One defensible number — tested against credits, CBAM and RFNBO rules.

03 · Get it built

From decision to performance test

Bankability & funding

Class 4 cost, lender package and funding map — with offtake that holds.

Project delivery

Owner’s engineer through permits and build — to the performance test.

Risk & compliance

Permits, safety cases and reporting obligations inside delivery.

Selected projects

Owner’s Advisor · Western Canada

Clean hydrogen from lignite with CCS

Indigenous-led complex at industrial scale. Complete FEL-1: options analysed: power generation and ammonia; 12 licensors screened to one, 51 offtake candidates to a shortlist of ten. FID targeted 2029.

  • ~300 tpd H₂, 700 MWth
  • 90+% carbon captured
  • ~$3.0B capex
Project Management · British Columbia

Indigenous-led green hydrogen plant

Runs on curtailed hydropower from the provincial utility and defers new transmission investment. Offtake in industry and heavy-duty mobility.

  • 25 MW electrolyser
  • 10 t/d hydrogen, liquefied
  • 125 MCAD capex
Energy Strategy · Chemicals

Energy vision for a chemical plant

Steam and heat supply set against market forecasting and regulatory exposure, turned into one strategy: energy independence, a lower carbon footprint and measurable efficiency gains.

  • 12 MW electrical load
  • 126 kt steam per year
Feasibility · Biogas

Raw biogas turned into usable energy

A digester facility’s raw by-product assessed across technical, economic, ecological and regulatory dimensions — part of a wider circular-economy programme.

  • 30,000 Nm³/d biogas input
  • Up to 3 MW CHP
  • 10 CNG trucks
Feasibility · Commercial Property

Energy concept for a commercial campus retrofit

Scenarios modelled and compared on technical, economic and ecological grounds, so the developer could commit to one modernisation route.

  • 450 kW PV system
  • 400 kWh battery
  • 50 kW electrolyser
Project Management · Northern Germany

Large hydrogen hub

One of three managing partners in a consortium of 17 core parties, covering production, transport and utilisation across one region.

  • 12 MW electrolyser, 300 MW in phase 2
  • ~3.5 t/d hydrogen
  • 30 M€ capex
Process Heat · Germany

From natural gas to hydrogen in the kiln

A brick maker switching its kilns to hydrogen generated on site from its own PV and wind.

  • 10 MW electrolyser
  • 9 MWp rooftop PV
  • −55% CO₂ by 2030

Advisors for now. Partners for what’s next.

A holistic approach to industrial decarbonization.

Energy transition decisions rarely succeed in isolation. CRATOS CAN looks at the whole system: demand, supply, technology, economics, regulation, stakeholders and implementation readiness.

We remain technology-agnostic and focus on the combination that best serves your objectives — from energy efficiency and sustainable power procurement to clean hydrogen, electrification, storage and integrated energy concepts.

How we work

Strategy, decision support and implementation in one connected journey.

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We Strategize

Develop a forward-looking energy vision and roadmap that connects business priorities with energy-system realities.

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We Enable Decisions

Build clear, data-driven comparisons across technical, economic, ecological, regulatory and organizational perspectives.

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We Implement

Turn strategy into action through project management, engineering, stakeholder engagement, funding support and risk control.

Capabilities

Seven connected capabilities for complex clean energy projects.

Use one capability as a focused engagement or combine several into an integrated project pathway.

Capability

Financial Facilitation

Building the economic foundation to enable project success.

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Why CRATOS CAN?

Not traditional consultants. Pathfinders for complex energy projects.

We combine technical depth, economic clarity, regulatory awareness and project-delivery experience to make ambitious energy transition programs practical and decision-ready.

Integrated clean energy technologies

Your contact in Canada

Justin Cao

Hydrogen Engineering Consultant

Connect with CRATOS CAN for industrial decarbonization, hydrogen and integrated clean-energy project support in Canada.

Meet the Clean Energy team
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