In June of this year, Nik Wallenda successfully walked over Niagara Falls on a high wire. That was risky. If I tried to perform the same feat, that would be…insane. In business, as in death defying acts – risk is personal. It depends on your position in the industry, your ...

I am anticipating 2012 to be an exciting year for both 3TIER and the broader renewable energy industry. Despite the ups and downs of 2011, our belief in renewable energy's promising future is unwavering. Even in this time of financial and political crisis, there lies an opportunity to learn ...

Originally published in Energy Risk magazine, Sept 2011.

Wind power is being relied on by governments around the world to deliver on their promises of low carbon power. But who is left holding the financial risks inherent to this resource? And what are the prospects for a mature wind derivatives ...

Originally published in EQ International, July/August 2011

It is no secret that many wind energy projects around the world are underperforming their pre-construction energy yield estimates. One of the factors behind this underperformance is that many projects were built with production estimates that did not adequately account for weather ...

Three years ago, if you asked a 3TIER employee what the company does, the answer was straightforward: 3TIER provided renewable resource mapping, assessment and forecasting services. Our customers were primarily project developers and operators, and we thought of our products as a linear path through the lifecycle of individual projects ...