You might want to contact someone named John Galt.

I have a colleague who has worked at a utility consulting firm for the past 6 years and at least 10 years before that developing products used by electric utilities. I do not know if he's good at grants, but I've seen him workout a profitable partnership between a small company a large company in the industrial automation sector. PM me if I can help make a connection.

Good luck Dale - I hope you can find someone. Tom

I've worked in Power Generation and Distribution for 25 years. I'm not in the commercial utility space though.

Saving $1B/year is an insignificant dent in an industry whose sales are on the order of $660M/day.

You have to break it down into clear $/$ ratios to attract investor interest. Simply stating a total money savings, makes for interesting click-bait, but it also raises the level of disbelief a full notch before the page loads.

That said: I've made my career finishing projects other people have started and allowed to run late and go over budget. Gimme a shout today and i can save you a ton of aggravation; or you can wait and enjoy chewing on nails. ;^)

Hi Dale,
I'll PM you.

When I read things like this I worry about the physics involved.

A friend who was a truck driver approached me years ago with his plan to run an entire semi-tractor rig on the electricity from a 5 kw gas-electric generator. Rather than argue with him, I told him, "Put your plan in writing and I'll look at it." Result? Nothing.

A big rig's engine might be making 560 hp, which is over 400 kw. He was off the mark by a factor of 80, but he was hoping I would fund his crazy project.