Founded by Jonathan Thompson, OK Concepts works at the intersection of engineering, strategy, and delivery. The practice helps owners, institutions, and public-sector organizations connect technical analysis with real-world decisions about buildings, capital planning, utility coordination, and long-term investment.
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STRATEGIC ENERGY PLANNING
Turning energy from a recurring cost into a long-term strategy.
Good energy planning answers four questions in order: Where are you today? Where do you need to go? What are your opportunities? And how do you get there? We build long-range energy and emissions roadmaps around that framework — integrating compliance timelines, capital planning cycles, electrification, and utility coordination into one coherent plan, then translating the analysis into decisions leadership can actually make. Planning accounts for an uncertain future, including how a decarbonizing grid changes the math on every investment.
Where are you today? Establishing the baseline.
Energy auditing and existing-conditions assessment
Portfolio-wide energy and emissions benchmarking
Utility data analysis and end-use disaggregation
Compliance exposure and penalty-risk baseline
Where do you need to go? Defining the targets.
Regulatory compliance timelines (local laws, state mandates)
Carbon reduction, electrification, and resilience goals
Grid scenario modeling (CLCPA and non-CLCPA pathways) and how it shifts the target
What are your opportunities? Identifying the measures.
Conservation and decarbonization measure identification (ECM / RCM / GHGM)
Electrification and fuel-switching strategy
On-site generation, storage, and demand management
Impact-versus-cost screening across the full measure set
How do we implement? Sequencing the work.
Capital planning alignment and investment sequencing
Financing and incentive evaluation (utility programs, NYSERDA, tax incentives)
Phasing aligned to equipment end-of-life and compliance deadlines
Long-range roadmaps through 2050, revisited as conditions change
PORTFOLIO DECARBONIZATION
The most cost-effective path to your targets — building by building
Decarbonization mandates and commitments are multiplying: NYC's energy local laws (LL84, LL87, LL88, LL97), New York State's CLCPA, the Empire Building Challenge for institutional portfolios, LEED and other accreditation goals. We help owners meet them — not by doing everything, but by finding the most cost-effective pathway: the measures, sequence, and timing that deliver compliance and deep carbon reduction at the lowest total cost
We focus on the strategies and technologies that actually make sense in New York City — heat recovery and heat pump systems, steam-to-hot-water conversions, envelope and controls upgrades, thermal storage, and load management — matched to each building's systems, condition, and capital cycle.
Just as important, we navigate the bottlenecks that stall decarbonization and electrification projects:
True value stack and funding stack — understanding the full economic picture: avoided penalties, energy savings, incentives, financing, and tax treatment, layered correctly
Utility coordination — service upgrades, interconnection, and gas transition planning
Project sizing and phasing — right-sizing systems and sequencing work so projects pencil and disruption stays manageable
Typical work includes:
Compliance planning across the NYC energy local laws (LL84 / LL87 / LL88 / LL97)
Building-by-building penalty projections and risk ranking
Empire Building Challenge and institutional decarbonization roadmaps
CLCPA-aligned electrification strategy
LEED and accreditation support
Prioritized, phased pathways sequenced by impact, cost, and deadline
Policy advisory: We also support municipalities in shaping decarbonization legislation — including advising New York City on revisions to Local Law 97.
DISTRICT INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING
Energy planning at the scale of neighborhoods, not just buildings.
Some of the most valuable energy opportunities only appear when you stop looking at one building at a time. We assess where shared infrastructure — thermal energy networks, ambient and shared-loop systems, anchor loads — can outperform building-by-building solutions, and we do the cross-institutional work required to make coordinated infrastructure real.
Typical work includes:
Thermal energy network and ambient-loop feasibility
Anchor-load and shared-infrastructure analysis
Campus and multi-building system planning
Utility and interconnection coordination
Stakeholder alignment across agencies, owners, and communities
ENERGY DATA & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
The data foundation that makes good strategy possible.
Good strategy depends on data you can trust. We turn raw utility and building data into decision tools — ingesting and normalizing bills, building emissions accounting, and creating interactive analytics and visualizations that make complex systems legible. Increasingly, that work is accelerated by AI: automating data management, quality control, and reporting so analysis stays fast, accurate, and defensible.
Typical work includes:
Utility bill ingestion, normalization, and emissions accounting
Custom analytics and interactive visualization (Sankey flows, dashboards)
Scenario and rate-escalation modeling
AI-assisted data management, reporting, and quality control
Practical digital tooling built on accessible, maintainable platforms
These capabilities are most powerful in combination — the data layer feeds the planning, the planning shapes the infrastructure. Wherever your organization is on that arc, the conversation can start there.
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