What is Helios Strategies?
Strategic Marketing Innovations, Inc. (SMI) created Helios Strategies to provide a range of services to clients with the goal of driving investment into energy production, delivery and end use, as well as to shape the policy landscape to promote federal legislation that encourages clean energy development.
Helios Strategies focuses on program development and funding opportunities for clean and alternative energy technology, including the promotion of federal financial incentives for the clean tech industry. SMI and Helios collectively represent a diverse number of companies and universities conducting research on wind, wave and tidal power, batteries, energy storage, fuel and solar cells, coal-to-liquid and biomass fuels. By helping to secure funding and shape federal policy for these clients, a significant number of jobs relating to the emerging area of clean energy production have been created.
The Helios team has hands-on, insiders´ experience working with Members of Congress and staff and federal agency officials. Our team combines experience from Capitol Hill, federal agencies (DOE, DOD etc.), technology/renewable energy advocacy, and trade association management/leadership. We are on Capitol Hill and at federal agencies, meeting with officials and staff, in the course of normal business. This regular interaction with Members and staff strengthens our understanding of the tenor and pulse of Capitol Hill and the Administration. We have strong, long‑standing relationships with numerous Republican and Democratic legislators and with key committees and agencies, which we utilize to shape policy and advance the interests of our clean tech clients.
Examples of Past & Current Clients
- Advanced Composites Group
- Ameresco
- Apex Wind Energy
- Aquamarine Power
- Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.
- BioSonics, Inc.
- C&D Technologies, Inc.
- California State University Long Beach
- Collins Engineers
- Columbia Power Technologies
- Dehlsen Associates
- DRS Power & Control Technologies, Inc.
- DuPont Corporation
- East Carolina University
- O'Neill and Associates
- Ocean Power Technologies
- Ocean Renewable Power Company
- Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company
- Resolute Marine Energy
- SML Consulting
- Sound and Sea Technology
- Third Wave Systems
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock
- University of Dayton Research Institute
- University of Maine
- University of Massachusetts Lowell
- University of Montana
- University of Tennessee
- Verdant Power
- Wavebob