Maximizing business

& climate results in energy

We guide companies and investors navigating today's rapidly changing energy landscape. Our expertise in data centers, advanced energy technologies and AI allows our clients to see over the near horizon.

ABOUT Near Horizon Group

With broad experience and deep expertise at the forefront of energy and climate strategy, we provide expert guidance to companies and investors, helping them navigate energy markets, optimize business performance, and achieve climate goals. From AI infrastructure to advanced energy technology, we deliver innovative solutions that catalyze new partnerships and accelerate the transition to a clean, reliable, afforable energy grid.

We have worked with clients across sectors and geographies, from startups to the Fortune 100 - and we leverage this extensive network in our work. We often serve as a bridge between large energy customers and other segments of the market.

We have done business in most major energy markets in the US and with most types of participants in them. We pull on this deep expertise when working with clients.

We have negotiated and executed a range of large, diverse transactions including Power Purchase Agreements, Advanced Market Commitments, utility green tariffs, tax equity project financing, voluntary carbon market purchases, and others. We understand the allocation of risk and the required creativity to provide expert advice on these and other complex transactions - particularly on new to you or new to the market structures.

"I chose the name Near Horizon Group because, in reflecting on the current moment, I felt that the next horizon in energy is very near indeed. This makes me tremendously optimistic about the opportunities now available to companies and investors, and I am excited to help my clients seize them."

Peter Freed – Founding Partner

Broad experience,
deep expertise

We work across the energy industry and tie all the pieces together for clients to reach their goals of accessing clean, reliable, affordable energy

Services

We identify areas of strategic connection between our clients and others in the market they don't know yet. We understand the requirements and motivations of large energy customers and use that knowledge to drive innovation with other market participants.

Build relationships & foster collaboration

We advise companies seeking data center and other large load service as well as the utilities that serve them. We navigate the current load growth environment to find solutions for clean, reliable, affordable energy service.

AI Infrastructure & Large Loads

From sourcing to contracting, from your management to your CFO, from solar to advanced nuclear, we help companies find and buy the right clean energy solution for their commitments.

Clean Energy Procurement

We help companies understand how the policy landscape impacts their energy and climate goals and to create strategies that drive policy outcomes.

Energy Policy Guidance

We assist companies with innovative rate design and negotiation for clean energy service, and help them navigate the wide variety of regulatory proceedings that impact their energy service.

Rates & Regulatory Support

We explore how companies can maximize their climate impact through net zero and other corporate climate commitments while using carbon markets as a tool to achieve those outcomes.

Net Zero & Carbon Markets

How we work

We believe that collaboration is central to meeting urgent climate goals, and that business can be a catalyst for positive change. The complexity of the current moment demands creativity, optimism, and novel thinking. Our diverse professional history, ability to foster new connections and relationships, and real-world experience allow us to deliver that to clients.

A few things we're currently working on include advising a large investor on how they might invest in the data center space; navigating the complex commercial finance and regulatory landscape for advanced nuclear energy; helping a utility meet the massive demands of load growth as cleanly as possible; and conceptualizing non-traditional financing and commercial models for advanced energy technology.

WE OFFER

Expertise
Perspective
Creativity
Insight
Leadership
Credibility
Partnership

Peter Freed
—
Founding Partner

Peter Freed has over 20 years of experience working at the nexus of clean energy and climate. He provides strategic advice to companies and investors aiming to optimize business performance and climate outcomes within the energy sector. His areas of expertise include enabling load growth, data center development and AI infrastructure, the deployment of advanced energy technologies, utility, regulatory, and policy engagement, as well as commercial structuring and negotiation—all with a focus on accelerating the transition to a clean, reliable grid of the future.

In addition to his advisory work, Peter serves as a Research Fellow at the Sustainable Finance Initiative at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, where he works on innovative strategies to maximize the impact of companies in combating climate change. Additionally, he is a Senior Advisor to the Energy Transition and Sustainability team at Warburg Pincus. In his most recent role, Peter spent a decade as the Director of Energy Strategy at Meta, where he led efforts to advance grid decarbonization and reliability, aligning with Meta’s data center energy and net zero objectives. Peter was a founding board member of the Clean Energy Buyers Alliance. He holds a BS in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

Selected ClientS & Affiliations

Maximizing business

& climate results in energy

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