Portfolio & Property Strategy
We evaluate utility data, property characteristics, ownership priorities and market rules to identify where solar, storage and other distributed-energy resources can create real value.
ADVISORY FOR PROPERTY OWNERS • DEVELOPERS • INDUSTRY PARTNERS
Energy strategy
for property owners
and industry partners.
Rice Energy Advisors helps owners turn solar, storage and distributed-energy opportunities into well-structured, executable investments.
Built through collaboration. We work alongside developers, installers, capital providers and technical specialists to move sound energy strategies into successful operating projects.
THE OWNER'S PERSPECTIVE
Distributed energy can improve a property. The wrong structure can complicate it.
Property owners are approached with competing claims about savings, lease revenue, tax benefits and new energy technologies. The choices are rarely as simple as they first appear.
REA brings an owner's representative perspective to the entire process. We clarify the economics, compare alternatives, organize the right counterparties and remain engaged through execution.
Why owners need an energy strategyWHAT WE DO
From opportunity
to operating asset.
Senior-level advice across the full distributed-energy lifecycle.
Project Structuring
We compare ownership, PPA, lease and subscription structures—then help owners select the approach that best fits their capital, risk and operating objectives.
Procurement & Execution
We organize competitive processes, evaluate developers and contractors, review commercial terms and stay engaged through development, financing and construction.
Capital & Tax-Credit Strategy
We help project owners evaluate financing alternatives, investor requirements, tax-credit transfer opportunities and transaction economics alongside their legal and tax advisers.
Asset & Portfolio Advisory
We advise on acquisitions, asset performance, value improvement and monetization for operating projects and distributed-energy portfolios.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Practical judgment,
applied to real assets.
Representative assignments are anonymized to protect client confidentiality.
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
Multi-property community solar procurement
Analyzed a large commercial-property utility portfolio, developed subscription capacity estimates and structured a competitive provider process across multiple service territories.
PROJECT OWNER
Tax-credit monetization
Prepared a Maryland community solar project for a federal clean-energy tax-credit transfer, including buyer outreach, diligence planning, economics and transaction coordination.
DEVELOPER
Floating solar strategy and execution
Advising a community solar developer on project value, development capital, financing, strategic alternatives and execution through key development milestones.
INVESTOR
Distributed portfolio strategy
Evaluated acquisition, financing and asset-management strategies for distributed solar portfolios, with a focus on disciplined underwriting and risk-adjusted returns.
HANDS-ON LEADERSHIP
StrategyCapitalDevelopmentExecutionABOUT JIM RICE
An energy entrepreneur who stays in the details.
Jim Rice is an energy entrepreneur, investor and veteran leader. He co-founded Nautilus Solar Energy with Laura Stern in 2006 after the two sketched out their vision for a solar-focused independent power producer at a local Starbucks.
Jim and Laura built Nautilus from the ground up. That meant working hands-on across strategy, capital formation, project development, customer and utility relationships, contracts, construction, financing, ownership and operations. Jim remained close to the details because that is where projects are made bankable, risks are resolved and value is created.
Under their leadership, Nautilus grew from a start-up into a national distributed-generation and community solar platform. The company developed more than 800 MW of solar projects during its first 15 years, and Jim later led its community solar business from inception to more than 400 MW.
Before Nautilus, Jim held senior power, infrastructure and investment-banking roles at Riverstone, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and First Union. Earlier, he served as a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine officer—experience that shaped the engineering precision, strategic discipline and endurance he brings to every assignment.
At Rice Energy Advisors, clients work directly with Jim and receive the same practical, engaged approach: understand the asset, master the economics, anticipate the execution issues and stay involved until the work is done.
Work with Jim
OUR TEAM
Technical depth.
Practical execution.
RENEWABLE ENERGY & INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
Warren Juba
Warren Juba is an energy and infrastructure development professional whose work bridges technical execution, project finance and transaction support. At Rice Energy Advisors, he supports solar and energy-infrastructure opportunities through site screening and feasibility assessment, utility and energy-market analysis, project-finance modeling, tax-incentive evaluation, transaction diligence and project execution.
Before entering renewable energy, Warren served as a U.S. Navy nuclear engineer and submarine officer. He led teams responsible for the safe operation, maintenance and modernization of complex infrastructure in high-consequence environments. That experience gives him a hands-on, engineering-led approach to systems evaluation, equipment and vendor diligence, implementation planning, operational reliability and analytical problem-solving.
Warren earned a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, where he also completed the Certificate in Sustainable Business.
HOW WE WORK
Start with the owner
We define objectives, constraints and decision criteria before recommending a structure or counterparty.
Make complexity understandable
We turn technical, regulatory and financial inputs into clear commercial choices.
Stay through execution
Advice matters most when it survives diligence, negotiation and the realities of project delivery.
START A CONVERSATION
What energy opportunity are you evaluating?
Tell us about your property, project or portfolio. We'll help you identify the questions that matter and the most practical path forward.
jim.rice@riceenergypartners.com 917-991-0807