Strategy & Analysis
Financial models and decision analysis that turn a hard question into a clear answer: growth plans, investment cases, valuations and scenarios, from next quarter to the next thirty years. Built to be audited, not just presented.
va·lu·tà·re (Italian, verb) to determine the value of an asset; to weigh something carefully in reaching a judgment.
Valutare Inc. · Calgary, Alberta
Business strategy, development and analysis.
Decisions are better when they're made with the best tools and information. Valutare helps companies of all sizes work through industry transitions and stay competitive, and we make your success our priority.
- Financial modelling
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Business development
- Project development
- Budgeting & forecasting
- Commercial analysis
Services
What your business needs
Acquisition & Development
Acquisition and merger analysis, business and project development, and commercial support on contracts, from the first screen to a package an owner can evaluate, finance and sign.
Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting
Annual budgets, detailed operational forecasts and recurring management reporting, run as an extension of the client's own finance team.
Research & Grant Applications
Research, professional writing and grant applications that turn analysis into funding submissions and decision documents.
05 · Live decision tools
Your models, rebuilt as live tools you can still audit
The analysis behind a business shouldn't live in a spreadsheet someone updates by hand. Valutare builds secure web tools around your data, backed by proper servers, storage and redundancy, that refresh themselves and give your team a clean interface. One click exports everything to Excel with every formula and assumption intact, so the logic stays visible and yours to change.
In use today: a live, self-updating dispatch tool for a client's operations. Next up: moving a client's invoicing from Excel to a hosted application.
- Live, automated data instead of manual updates
- Full Excel export: formulas, not pasted values
- Auditable logic you can change yourself
- Dashboards, dispatch, invoicing and planning tools
Selected experience
Recent and representative work
Clients have included utilities, power producers, district energy and municipal operators, midstream companies, developers and private owners. Names are withheld; many engagements are confidential.
Data centres · Ongoing
Powered-shell co-location site, Alberta
Economic analysis of a 10-year co-location lease from the landlord's side, research into data centre operations, cost and waste-heat value, and support negotiating the commercial agreement.
Hydro · Ongoing
Hydroelectric project development
Financial modelling and commercial support as part of a project team developing a First Nation–partnered hydro plant.
District energy · Long-term
Long-term planner to a district energy utility
Detailed financial and operational forecasting, budgets and reporting, plus growth analysis: electrified and low-carbon heat, CHP refurbishment and waste-energy options.
Utilities · M&A
M&A tool and growth analysis for a municipal utility
Built an acquisition evaluation tool, reviewed targets and financials, and assessed pyrolysis, waste-to-energy and renewable natural gas opportunities alongside ongoing budgeting and modelling.
Generation · Planning
Next-generation supply options for a Canadian utility
Evaluated competing generation technologies, primarily natural gas, for a provincial utility's next build cycle.
Energy M&A
Acquisitions in regulated and non-regulated energy
Corporate development work on generation development and acquisitions, including gas-fired generation, across both regulated and competitive energy markets in Canada and the US.
Midstream · M&A
Transformational midstream merger
Built the transaction model with the CEO for a pipeline company's acquisition of a larger competitor.
Solar & wind
Renewable development and acquisitions
Helped develop a utility-scale solar project, supported a solar acquisition, and evaluated a large wind acquisition for a Canadian energy company. Also evaluates residential solar for owners deciding whether it pays.
About
Meet our team
Dylan Meyer
Managing Director
Dylan has worked across energy since 2006, in oil and gas, power generation, utilities and, more recently, digital infrastructure. His background is in business development and corporate development: acquisition, development, planning, strategy, analysis and risk. He has worked on development and M&A across regulated and non-regulated energy, from gas-fired generation to solar and wind.
Since founding Valutare he has served as long-range financial planner to utility clients and is moving further into project development, starting with data centres and hydro. He values safety, integrity, honesty and accountability in every engagement, and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Alberta.
Get in touch
Most work begins with a conversation about a decision on the table: a site, a contract, an acquisition or a budget.