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NOVUS Energy Advisors is a boutique consulting firm offering strategic services across the energy and cleantech industries to support teams in the rapidly changing landscape. Our unique combination of deep industry knowledge and extensive network across the renewable energy, oil, gas, and utility industries enables our partners to seize new opportunities for growth and profitability, capitalizing on the transition to a lower-carbon future.

Core Values

NOVUS Energy Advisors was built on a set of core values and managing principles that create a foundation of trust, integrity, and credibility with all of our partners. We are committed to practicing these principles in all of our affairs while delivering best-in-class power solutions and superior value for our partners.

Founder & CEO

Emily Easley
CEO

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Would you like to see how we might work together? We can meet you where ever you are as you navigate the energy transition.

Energy Advisors know renewables, We know oil and gas. We are the trusted partner you have been looking for.

Energy Advisors Novus is an independent consulting firm offering strategic services across the energy industries to support teams.

Emily Easley founded NOVUS Energy Advisors to bridge traditional and alternative energy markets. She has nearly two decades of experience in renewable energy and power. Additionally, her background in Texas oil and gas provides her with valuable expertise that she brings to the industry.

Our experienced team, having worked together for over a decade. That has united with veteran colleagues to connect the electrons and molecules of both traditional and alternative energy markets. With knowledge of the exponential growth of renewables and the fracking boom, we have a unique ability to intersect and add value.

NOVUS Energy Advisors has a deep bench of industry contacts in the energy and cleantech sectors. This extensive network provides access to valuable market intelligence, trends, regulatory and policy developments, and emerging technology advancements.

Leadership Team

Emily Easley – CEO

CEO

Building on her Texas oil & gas roots and an almost two-decade long career in the renewable energy and power businesses, Emily founded NOVUS Energy Advisors, an independent consulting firm offering strategic services across the energy and cleantech industries, to offer a bridge between the traditional and alternative energy markets. The company’s unique combination of deep industry knowledge and extensive network across the renewable energy, oil, gas, and utility industries enables clients to seize opportunities for growth and profitability, capitalizing on the transition to a lower carbon future.

Previously, Emily worked with midstream and exploration & production companies at ERE Strategies, a renewable energy consulting practice. Her clients consisted of oil & gas fund managers and midstream service companies, where she spearheaded their efforts to identify growth strategies in the renewable energy space, including project acquisition, deal-flow, fundraising, and strategic counsel on new markets and partnership. Emily was then recruited as CEO by client, Foundation Energy Management, to launch NOVUS Clean Energy from the ground up to build out a clean energy investment vehicle for their Limited Partners.

Prior to ERE Strategies, Emily spent a decade working with Washington, D.C.-based national clean energy associations, Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and the Smart Electric Power Association (SEPA). She was charged with successfully driving, developing and generating membership revenue on behalf of the organizations. During her tenure, she managed seven figure budgets, cultivated thousands of corporate relationships across the power and renewable energy industries, and increased sales to drive exponential growth. Additionally, Emily worked with organizational leadership to create membership vehicles and products, fundamental to the exponential growth of the organization.

She has provided strategic counsel and investor services across the energy industry, leveraging her unique experience across the renewable, energy storage, oil & gas, distributed generations, and regulated and un-regulated power markets. Emily graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University with a focus on business and organizational leadership, and currently resides in Virginia with her family.

Leadership Team

Stuart Nuckols

Vice President, Operations

Stuart holds more than 10 years of experience in clean energy communications and operations including strategy, marketing, and external relations. Spanning executive-level consultation to building teams and leading operational activities, Stuart’s broad industry experience includes renewable energy, energy efficiency, and green building fields through her roles at NOVUS Clean Energy, Viridiant and the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA). Stuart has led collaborative communications efforts and strategic partnerships with for-profit and non-profit companies as well as major regional utilities, helping leverage their ESG-focused initiatives. Most recently, Stuart steered operations and outreach for NOVUS Clean Energy, a clean energy investment vehicle driving superior return for its partners.From 2012 to 2019, Stuart led external relations and marketing at Viridiant, making sustainable structures more affordable, livable, and durable for businesses and homeowners. At SEPA, Stuart managed membership programs for 1500 solar and utility executives, steered external event programming, and supported company-wide strategic development. Stuart holds a BA in Environmental Science from The University of Virginia.