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Climate · ESG · Digital Infrastructure

The advisory firm
built for the
climate transition

Novasolis Consulting helps municipalities, corporations, and digital infrastructure operators navigate climate adaptation, ESG strategy, community relations, and sustainable transformation — with rigour, intelligence, and conviction.

$98B
in data centre projects blocked by community opposition in 2025
17%
annual growth rate in the global green data centre market through 2031
2026
ESG reporting becomes mandatory under CSRD and US state law
1.3
PUE — mandatory OECD efficiency target for data centres by 2030
What We Do

Six integrated
practice areas

From municipal climate resilience to corporate ESG disclosure to green digital infrastructure — our practice areas are interconnected and designed to create compounding strategic value.

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"The climate transition is not a risk to manage. It is an intelligence problem to solve."

Novasolis Consulting
How We Work

Rigorous.
Relational.
Decisive.

We don't sell frameworks. We deliver outcomes — grounded in deep regulatory knowledge, sector expertise, and the credibility that comes from doing this work at institutional scale.

01
Diagnosis Before Prescription
Every engagement begins with a structured assessment — understanding your current ESG maturity, regulatory exposure, and community context before any recommendations are made.
02
Integrated Advisory, Not Siloed Consulting
Climate, community, and compliance are not separate problems. We bring them together in a unified strategy that creates value across your entire stakeholder ecosystem.
03
Orchestrated Implementation
We coordinate technical partners — engineers, certifiers, energy advisors — while you retain one strategic relationship. One firm accountable for the full transformation.
04
Credibility That Holds Up to Scrutiny
Our work is built to withstand regulatory review, investor due diligence, and community scrutiny — because that's the standard our clients operate under.
Proprietary Methodology

Distinctive tools.
Defensible results.

Our proprietary assessment and reporting methodology is built from first principles — not off-the-shelf frameworks. Designed to produce outputs that satisfy regulators, investors, and communities simultaneously.

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Novasolis ESG Intelligence™
Proprietary ESG scoring, climate risk profiling, and investor-focused benchmarking for impact investment readiness and due diligence workflows.
◉ Proprietary Platform
Novasolis Readiness Audit™
Fixed-scope audit framework for digital infrastructure — benchmarking PUE, WUE, carbon, and renewable mix with a phased transformation roadmap output.
◉ Structured Audit Product
Novasolis ESG Managed Reporting™
Annual retainer service with GHG inventory, regulatory filing, Scope 1-2-3 tracking, and executive-ready ESG disclosure packages.
◉ Recurring Retainer Service
200B+
Green data centre market by 2031
17% CAGR — Green Building Intelligence
188
Active opposition groups targeting US data centres
66% of contested projects blocked or delayed
2026
California mandatory Scope 1 & 2 reporting begins
CSRD already in force across Europe
27%
Higher investment interest in certified sustainable businesses
vs. non-ESG-certified peers — McKinsey
Industries We Serve

Built for the operators
building tomorrow

01
🏛️
Municipalities & Government
Climate resilience planning, GMF/FCM advisory, infrastructure vulnerability assessments, and community engagement frameworks for small and mid-size municipalities.
02
🖥️
Data Centres & IT Infrastructure
Green retrofit advisory, community relations management, ESG reporting, and regulatory compliance strategy for colocation providers and enterprise IT operators.
03
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Financial Institutions
Climate risk disclosure, TCFD alignment, ESG due diligence, and sustainability strategy for banks, asset managers, and institutional investors.
04
Energy & Utilities
Net-zero roadmaps, renewable energy sourcing strategy, stakeholder engagement, and Scope 3 accounting for energy companies navigating the transition economy.
05
🏗️
Real Estate & Infrastructure
LEED and green certification advisory, community benefit frameworks, ESG asset reporting, and climate risk integration for REITs, developers, and infrastructure funds.
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Corporate Enterprise
Full ESG strategy development, decarbonization planning, managed ESG reporting, and stakeholder engagement for corporations navigating regulatory and investor pressure.
Insights & Thought Leadership

Intelligence that
informs decisions

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The $98 billion community opposition problem in digital infrastructure
Data Centre · Community Relations

Why Data Centres Are Losing the Community Relations Battle — and What the Industry Must Do Differently

Between March and June 2025, community opposition led to $98 billion in data centre projects being blocked or delayed. This is not a permitting problem. It is a trust problem.

Novasolis EditorialMay 20268 min read
CSRD & the 2026 compliance window
ESG · Regulation

The 2026 ESG Compliance Window: What Mid-Size Operators Must Do Now

The regulatory clock is running. Most mid-size operators are not ready for what mandatory ESG reporting actually requires.

May 20266 min read
Ontario's clean energy advantage
Green Infrastructure · Canada

Ontario's Hidden Advantage in the Green Data Centre Race

Low-carbon hydroelectric power, cold ambient temperatures, and federal clean technology credits make Ontario strategically undervalued.

April 20265 min read
Flagship Service

Start with the
Novasolis Readiness Audit™

Our fixed-scope Green Readiness Audit is the entry point for data centre operators navigating the 2026–2030 regulatory window. In 30 days, we benchmark your current position and deliver a phased transformation roadmap — no ambiguity, no scope creep.

What the audit covers
PUE benchmarking against OECD 1.3 target
WUE assessment and water reduction pathways
Carbon footprint baseline (Scope 1, 2 & 3)
Renewable energy mix analysis and PPA readiness
LEED/BREEAM/ISO 50001 certification gap analysis
Phased transformation roadmap (2025–2030)
Client Perspectives

Trusted by those
doing the hard work

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Novasolis brought a level of ESG and stakeholder rigour we hadn't encountered in the data centre advisory space before. Their Readiness Audit gave us a credible roadmap we could take directly to our board and lenders.

Chief Operating Officer
Mid-size Colocation Provider, Ontario
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We were facing significant community opposition before we engaged Novasolis. Their Social Licence Advisory helped us build genuine relationships with the municipality — not manage optics. The project moved forward.

Director of Development
Infrastructure Developer, Mid-Atlantic US
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Their ESG Managed Reporting service transformed what had been an annual compliance headache into a strategic communications asset. Our investors now ask for the Novasolis disclosure package specifically.

VP Investor Relations
TSX-listed Energy Company, Canada
Start the Conversation

Let's talk about
what's at stake

Whether navigating community opposition, approaching a regulatory deadline, or planning a sustainability transformation — the conversation starts here.

hello@novasolisconsulting.com  ·  Toronto, Ontario  ·  Operating across Canada & the United States

HomeClimate Adaptation Advisory
Practice Area 01

Climate Adaptation
Advisory

We help cities, municipalities, and infrastructure operators build climate resilience from the inside out — translating complex climate science into actionable strategies, fundable plans, and lasting community capacity.

The Challenge

Climate risk is no longer a future problem

Municipalities across North America face an accelerating reality: more frequent extreme weather events, deteriorating infrastructure, rising insurance costs, and growing community anxiety. The challenge is not just physical — it is institutional, financial, and relational.

Most municipalities lack the internal capacity to translate federal climate policy into local action, secure available funding, and build the cross-departmental alignment needed to actually execute. That is the gap Novasolis fills.

What We Deliver
Climate Resilience Plans
Comprehensive, implementation-ready plans aligned with FCM/GMF, ICLEI, and provincial frameworks — designed to be funded, not shelved.
Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessments
Asset-level analysis of climate exposure across transportation, water, utilities, and buildings — prioritized by risk, cost, and community impact.
Net-Zero and Sustainability Roadmaps
Phased decarbonization pathways for municipal operations, fleets, and facilities — with funding strategies built in.
Municipal Funding & Grant Advisory
Navigation of FCM Green Municipal Fund, provincial climate programs, and federal infrastructure streams — from eligibility to application to reporting.
Typical clients for this practice area
🏛️Small & mid-size municipalities
🔧Infrastructure operators
🌊Water & wastewater utilities
🚌Transit authorities
🏘️Regional governments
🌲Conservation authorities
Our Process

How a climate adaptation engagement unfolds

01
Baseline Assessment
Current state review of climate risks, existing plans, infrastructure inventory, and community context.
02
Risk & Vulnerability Analysis
Asset-level exposure mapping using climate projections, scenario analysis, and probability-consequence frameworks.
03
Strategy Development
Co-development of adaptation measures, priorities, timelines, and funding strategies with municipal staff and council.
04
Plan & Submission
Final Climate Resilience Plan delivered, formatted for GMF/FCM or provincial submission, with monitoring framework included.

Ready to build a
climate-resilient community?

Our team brings the regulatory knowledge, community engagement expertise, and implementation rigour to turn climate ambition into fundable, executable plans.

HomeCorporate Sustainability & ESG
Practice Area 02

Corporate Sustainability
& ESG Strategy

We help corporations, financial institutions, and listed companies build ESG strategies that satisfy regulators, reassure investors, and create genuine long-term value — not compliance theatre.

The Landscape

ESG has moved from voluntary to mandatory

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive took effect in January 2025. California's SB 253 mandates Scope 1 and 2 reporting from 2026. TCFD-aligned disclosure is now expected by institutional investors regardless of regulatory status. The question is no longer whether to have an ESG strategy — it is whether yours is defensible.

Most mid-size corporations are navigating this with internal teams who lack the technical depth in GHG accounting, materiality assessment, and regulatory alignment. Novasolis brings that expertise in a structured, engagement model that grows with your needs.

What We Deliver
ESG Strategy Development
Material issue identification, stakeholder mapping, strategic priorities, and governance framework — your ESG strategy built for credibility, not optics.
Decarbonization Planning
Science-based target setting, Scope 1-2-3 reduction pathways, and implementation roadmaps aligned with net-zero commitments.
Climate Risk Disclosure
TCFD-aligned scenario analysis, physical and transition risk assessment, and board-ready climate risk disclosures for annual reports and investor communications.
CSRD & TCFD Alignment
Gap analysis against CSRD double materiality requirements, ESRS standards, and TCFD pillars — with implementation support for mandatory compliance timelines.
Typical clients for this practice area
🏦Financial institutions
📈Listed corporations
🏭Mid-size enterprises
💼Private equity portfolios
🌐Multinational operators
Energy companies
Our Process

Building an ESG strategy that holds up to scrutiny

01
Materiality Assessment
Double materiality analysis — identifying what affects your business and what your business affects, mapped to ESRS topics.
02
GHG Baseline
Scope 1, 2, and 3 GHG inventory using GHG Protocol methodology, establishing your performance baseline.
03
Strategy & Targets
ESG strategy development, science-based target setting, governance structure, and stakeholder communication plan.
04
Reporting & Disclosure
Annual ESG report, CSRD-aligned ESRS disclosures, TCFD report, and investor-ready summary package.

ESG strategy built for
the scrutiny ahead

Regulators, investors, and communities are asking harder questions. Let us help you build answers that are credible, defensible, and strategically valuable.

HomeNovasolis Readiness Audit™
Practice Area 03 · Flagship

Novasolis
Readiness Audit™

A fixed-scope, advisory-led green readiness assessment for data centre operators. We benchmark your current position against 2026–2030 regulatory targets and deliver a phased transformation roadmap — in 30 days.

Why This Matters Now

The regulatory window is already closing

New OECD-aligned regulations propose that data centres built before mid-2026 must retrofit to a PUE of 1.5 by 2026 and improve further to PUE 1.3 by 2030. Community opposition — which blocked $98 billion in projects in 2025 — shows no sign of slowing.

The Novasolis Readiness Audit gives you a clear, honest picture of where you stand and exactly what it will take to get where you need to be — before regulators or communities force the issue.

What We Deliver
PUE Benchmarking
Power Usage Effectiveness assessment against the OECD 1.3 target — identifying your efficiency gap and highest-impact improvement opportunities.
WUE Assessment
Water Usage Effectiveness analysis with pathways to closed-loop cooling, free air cooling, and water recirculation — particularly relevant for Ontario-based facilities.
Carbon Footprint Baseline
Scope 1, 2, and 3 GHG inventory for your facility — establishing the baseline required for all future disclosure and reduction tracking.
Renewable Energy Analysis
Current renewable mix assessment and PPA/REC readiness — including on-site solar viability, green tariff options, and procurement strategy.
Certification Gap Analysis
LEED v4.1, BREEAM, and ISO 50001 readiness assessment — identifying the gap, credit opportunities, and certification pathway most appropriate for your facility.
Typical clients for this practice area
🖥️Colocation providers
🏢Enterprise data centre operators
☁️Cloud infrastructure firms
🏗️Data centre developers
💼PE data centre portfolios
🔌IT infrastructure operators
Audit Timeline

From engagement to roadmap in 30 days

01
Onboarding & Data Collection
Days 1–7: Facility data review, documentation intake, and stakeholder interviews with operations and engineering teams.
02
Assessment & Analysis
Days 8–18: Technical benchmarking across all audit dimensions with regulatory gap analysis against 2026–2030 targets.
03
Findings & Roadmap
Days 19–26: Draft transformation roadmap development with phased recommendations, priority actions, and partner referrals.
04
Delivery & Briefing
Day 30: Final Readiness Audit report delivered with executive briefing — board-ready, investor-grade, regulator-proof.

Know where you stand.
Before you have to.

The Novasolis Readiness Audit gives data centre operators a clear, honest baseline and a phased roadmap — delivered in 30 days, structured for action.

HomeSocial Licence Advisory
Practice Area 04

Social Licence
Advisory

Community trust is now infrastructure. We help operators, developers, and municipalities build genuine, durable relationships with the communities they operate in — before, during, and after project development.

The Stakes

$98 billion blocked. By people, not regulators.

Between March and June 2025, community opposition led to $98 billion in data centre projects being blocked or delayed. 188 active opposition groups are now operating across the United States, with 66% of contested projects stalled or cancelled. Water use is cited in over 40% of opposition cases.

The industry spent decades treating site selection as a real estate and engineering problem. That era is over. Novasolis exists precisely at this intersection — where technical credibility meets community trust, and where most developers have no roadmap.

What We Deliver
Stakeholder Mapping & Analysis
Comprehensive mapping of community actors, influencers, and opponents — with relationship strategy for each segment.
Community Benefit Agreement Frameworks
Structured CBAs that create genuine, enforceable community co-benefits — employment commitments, local procurement, infrastructure contributions, and transparency reporting.
Municipal Engagement Playbooks
Tailored engagement strategies for council, planning departments, and municipal staff — designed to build institutional support, not just permit approvals.
Ongoing Relationship Management
Post-approval community liaison, impact reporting, and relationship maintenance — because social licence must be maintained, not just obtained.
Typical clients for this practice area
🖥️Data centre developers
Energy infrastructure operators
🏗️Infrastructure developers
🏛️Municipalities (proactive)
🌱Renewable energy developers
🏢Real estate developers
Our Approach

Building trust before you need it

01
Community Intelligence
Stakeholder mapping, sentiment analysis, and opposition landscape review before your first public engagement.
02
Engagement Strategy
Tailored engagement plan with messaging frameworks, format design, and timing strategy — built for your specific community context.
03
Active Engagement
Facilitated community sessions, council presentations, one-on-one meetings with key stakeholders, and transparent impact reporting.
04
Ongoing Management
Post-approval relationship maintenance, community benefit reporting, and social licence health monitoring throughout operations.

Social licence is not
a PR problem

It is a trust problem — and it requires genuine engagement, not messaging. Let us help you build the community relationships that determine whether your project succeeds.

HomeNovasolis ESG Managed Reporting™
Practice Area 05

Novasolis ESG
Managed Reporting™

An annual retainer-based managed service that transforms ESG compliance from a burden into a strategic asset — covering GHG inventory, Scope 1-2-3 reporting, regulatory alignment, and executive-ready disclosure packages.

The Compliance Reality

Reporting is now mandatory and material

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive is in force. California mandates Scope 1 and 2 disclosure from 2026. Institutional investors are applying their own ESG frameworks regardless of regulatory timelines. The question is no longer whether to report — it is whether your reporting is credible.

Most mid-size corporations and data centre operators lack the internal technical expertise to produce GHG inventories that withstand audit, alignment documentation for CSRD's European Sustainability Reporting Standards, and the executive narrative that turns compliance data into investor-facing communication.

What We Deliver
GHG Inventory Management
Annual Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas inventory using GHG Protocol methodology — audit-ready, verifiable, and baseline-tracked year over year.
CSRD/TCFD Alignment
Documentation and disclosure support aligned to ESRS standards (CSRD) and TCFD pillars — across governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics.
Regulatory Filing Support
Preparation and review of mandatory ESG filings for applicable jurisdictions — Canada, US states, and EU — with regulatory calendar management.
Executive-Ready Disclosure Package
Board-level ESG summary, investor-facing disclosure brief, and annual report ESG chapter — turning compliance data into strategic communication.
Typical clients for this practice area
🏦Financial institutions
📈TSX & NYSE-listed corporations
🖥️Data centre operators
Energy companies
🏢Mid-size enterprises
💼PE-backed companies
Annual Delivery Cycle

A managed service built around your calendar

01
Q1 — Data Collection
Scope 1, 2, 3 data collection, supplier engagement, and GHG inventory compilation for the prior fiscal year.
02
Q2 — Analysis & Alignment
Regulatory gap analysis, ESRS/TCFD alignment documentation, and performance tracking against prior year targets.
03
Q3 — Report Development
Annual ESG report drafting, executive summary preparation, and investor-facing disclosure package development.
04
Q4 — Filing & Planning
Regulatory filing support, board presentation, and next-year target-setting and data collection planning.

Turn ESG compliance into
strategic communication

The Novasolis ESG Managed Reporting service takes the complexity off your team's desk and puts a credible, investor-grade disclosure package on the board's table — every year.

HomeNovasolis ESG Intelligence™
Practice Area 06

Novasolis
ESG Intelligence™

Our proprietary ESG assessment methodology for due diligence, sustainability scoring, climate risk profiling, and investor-focused benchmarking — built for the rigour that impact investors and institutional allocators actually require.

The Intelligence Gap

Most ESG data is abundant. Actionable insight is not.

The market is flooded with ESG ratings, scores, and frameworks — but institutional investors increasingly find them inconsistent, opaque, and disconnected from actual climate risk. The Novasolis ESG Intelligence methodology was built to fill that gap: a proprietary, first-principles assessment designed for the rigour of capital allocation decisions.

Whether conducting pre-acquisition due diligence on a data centre portfolio, assessing impact investment readiness for an infrastructure fund, or benchmarking a corporate ESG profile for investor presentation — Novasolis ESG Intelligence delivers a structured, verifiable, decision-grade output.

What We Deliver
ESG Due Diligence
Pre-acquisition and pre-investment ESG assessment across Environmental, Social, and Governance dimensions — structured for integration into investment committee processes.
Sustainability Scoring
Proprietary scoring methodology covering 34 ESG indicators — producing a composite score and pillar-level ratings that are comparable, repeatable, and audit-traceable.
Climate Risk Profiling
Physical and transition risk assessment using scenario analysis — mapped to TCFD categories and quantified for integration into financial models and risk registers.
Impact Investment Readiness
Assessment of alignment with impact investment standards — IRIS+, SDG mapping, and additionality — preparing for impact-oriented capital raises.
Typical clients for this practice area
💼Private equity firms
🏦Institutional investors
🌱Impact investment funds
📊Asset managers
🏗️Infrastructure fund managers
🏢Corporations seeking capital
Assessment Process

Decision-grade ESG intelligence in four stages

01
Scope & Framework
Assessment scope definition, materiality mapping, and framework selection tailored to investor type and asset class.
02
Data Collection
Structured data request, management interviews, document review, and third-party data integration across all 34 ESG indicators.
03
Scoring & Analysis
Application of Novasolis proprietary scoring methodology with scenario analysis, peer benchmarking, and risk profiling.
04
Intelligence Report
Investor-grade ESG Intelligence Report delivered with scoring rationale, risk flags, recommendations, and improvement roadmap.

ESG intelligence built for
the decisions that matter

Capital allocation requires better than ratings agency scores. Novasolis ESG Intelligence provides the structured, verifiable, decision-grade assessment that serious investors require.

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Consultation

Whether navigating community opposition, approaching a regulatory deadline, or planning a sustainability transformation — the conversation starts here. No generic pitch. No obligation.

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Let's talk about
what's at stake

Our team will respond within one business day. All initial consultations are confidential and without obligation.

Email
hello@novasolisconsulting.com
Location
Toronto, Ontario  ·  Canada & United States
Entity
A division of Oreade Group Inc. (Canada)  ·  Oreade Group LLC (US)
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