Community Engagement for Energy Developers
Local Intelligence.
Strategic Excellence.
Built to Win.
Strategic communications for energy, storage, and data center developers, fueled by an intelligence engine that hears what communities are actually saying.
What We Do
We Help Energy, Storage, and Data Center Projects Win Community Support
We monitor what communities are saying about your project, then build the websites, materials, and research that answer it. Pick one piece or all of them, priced flat.
CSC Intelligence
We watch the places local fights happen: Facebook groups, local news, public meetings, agendas, and state dockets. Our analysts turn it into one clear briefing a week for your project.
How CSC Intelligence worksCreative & Advertising
Project websites, fact sheets, mailers, door hangers, presentation decks, and paid ads, built from what your community is actually saying.
Creative servicesResearch
Community assessments, landscape reviews, official dossiers, statewide studies, and long-form research reports. Fixed scope, available on their own.
Research productsAbout Us
Frontline Experience in Land Use, Energy and Innovation
CSC was built by people who have developed real energy projects: land acquisition, permitting, and development in big cities, small towns, and everything in between.
Insider's Perspective
We've been on the ground managing land use challenges across sectors, from energy to data centers, backed by a national network of subject matter experts who tailor strategy to each project's community and regulatory environment.
Fresh Marketing Approach
Deep industry expertise paired with the strategy and craft of global brand marketing, rebuilt for city councils, county boards, and the people who decide whether projects get built.
Decade-Deep Industry Roots
Our coast-to-coast team has been hands-on in energy projects for over ten years: land acquisition, permitting, and development, building strong community relationships along the way.
Where We Sit
The Industry Insider and the Agency, at One Table
Renewable agencies know the industry. Large agencies know marketing. CSC goes further on both.
CSC Intelligence
Meet CSC Intelligence
A purpose-built engine that turns community noise into intelligence you can act on. It was built to make what we know about a community organized, accessible, and ready the moment you need it.
Technology does the chasing and collecting, so our people spend their time on the thinking. And every project makes it smarter: knowledge compounds instead of disappearing when a project ends.
The questions it answers
- What is the community saying?
- What might influence the decision makers?
- What can we learn from past projects, here and elsewhere?
- What does the local opposition playbook look like?
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Step 1
Collect
Facebook groups and pages, Instagram, Reddit, local to national news, opposition websites and petitions, public meeting video, government postings, and state dockets, gathered by custom connections built for each source.
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Step 2
Organize
Everything lands in one database, stored word for word and checked before it goes anywhere. No sentiment score sits between you and what the community actually said.
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Step 3
Surface
Community and opposition assessments, the weekly digest, docket monitoring, key figure dossiers, trend and cross-project analysis, and answers to the questions that come up between reports.
- Active sources monitored
- 1,100+
- Community posts monitored
- 385K+
- News articles tracked
- 159K+
- Hours of meeting video made searchable
- 2,000+
Why CSC
Built Around What Developers Actually Need
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Experience tells us where to look. The community tells us what to build.
In between is the step most firms skip, running the same playbook county after county. We listen until we understand this place on its own terms: its values, its voices, its power structure. Everything we make starts there.
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We see what other firms can't.
Most monitoring is a person behind a computer, searching and scrolling. CSC Intelligence reads the places opposition actually forms, at a scale no person could. Then our analysts decide what it means.
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From “we need this” to deployed in 24 to 72 hours.
When the story shifts, the first response shapes what the community believes. Our production engine turns strategy into finished, delivered materials in days, not agency weeks.
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Our only incentive is your approval.
Flat fees, 0% markup. We make nothing extra by recommending more work, so every recommendation, including “do nothing,” is exactly what the project needs.
Let's Talk About Your Project.
Tell us where you're developing and what you're up against. We'll come back fast.