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DG+ is a marketing, communications, and creative agency for innovative brands across clean energy and climate tech.

DG+ turns policy, incentives, and stakeholder insights into positioning, messaging, and campaigns that perform.

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Insight-led strategy for the energy transition.

In the energy transition, the context is the strategy. Policy, incentives, and stakeholder dynamics shape markets, timelines, and what your audiences need to hear. DG+ brings deep clean energy fluency and targeted research to clarify what’s changing, what it means, and how to respond. Those insights don’t live in a separate report — they inform the positioning, messaging, and campaigns we create across your marketing and communications.

Our work spans policy analysis, stakeholder research, audience segmentation, and competitive/category framing. We synthesize complex, fast-moving inputs into clear direction your team can use: what to lead with, what to prove, who to prioritize, and where the opportunity is emerging.

As a boutique clean energy marketing, creative, and communications agency built for the renewable industry, we support both established industry leaders and are a growth marketing agency for startups. Whether you’re a developer entering a new market, a utility engaging communities, or a consultancy looking for specialized support, we bring perspective and precision grounded in the realities of the sector.

We work with stakeholders across wind, solar, energy storage, building electrification, and electric vehicle markets:

  • Renewable energy project developers and financiers
  • Major utilities, government agencies, and municipalities
  • Market research and consulting firms seeking niche expertise

Implementation options

We build custom HubSpot solutions for clean energy and climate organizations.

Our in-house experts configure your CRM, marketing, and sales hubs to align with your specific goals, helping you unlock the full value of the platform quickly and effectively.

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Setup and onboarding

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Lead capture and conversion

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Marketing automation

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Sales pipeline and outreach

Featured work

Zero Emission Transportation Association

The successful launch and scale of a national member-driven organization through press outreach, website redesign, social media activity, and targeted public awareness campaigns.

Camus Energy

Development of an aligned and impactful brand presence for a transformative grid management platform through content development, sales strategy, and a new website.

Banyan Infrastructure

A complete website refresh and bold communications strategy for a sustainable infrastructure finance software platform, educating its audience and communicating the value of an entirely new technology.

The World Bank

As a consultant to the World Bank’s Energy and Extractives Unit, DG+Design’s founder, David Ganske, developed a financial model to estimate embedded fuel subsidies across 48 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Solar Developer, Investor, and Asset Owner (Confidential Client)

Comprehensive market and competitive analysis to inform the sales and marketing strategy of a Fortune 1000 solar energy developer, financier, and asset owner.

Pivot Energy

Content marketing and strategy support for a leading national solar developer, drawing on DG+’s extensive clean energy industry experience.

Why invest in research-backed marketing and communications?

Understand your market before making your next move.

Renewable energy market trends evolve quickly. Policy shifts, funding programs, and technology trends can reshape your opportunity landscape overnight. Research helps you understand what’s changing, what it means for your audience, and where your message needs to adapt.

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Make decisions grounded in evidence.

Accurate, timely insights provide a solid foundation for cleantech pr, communications, marketing, and investment decisions, ensuring your strategies are informed and effective.

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Build credibility with investors and partners.

When your story is backed by real market and stakeholder context, you sound more confident, more strategic, and more trustworthy.

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Spot emerging opportunities earlier.

Market research uncovers emerging renewable energy industry trends, gaps, and audiences that others may overlook, helping you move first and come out on top.

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Approach

Strong client relationships are the foundation of our work.

We build our relationships through clear, consistent communication and dedicated time for account management.

We see ourselves as an extension of your team — proactive, responsive, and aligned with your goals. Account management is an ongoing component of every month of engagement between DG+ and our clients.

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Experience where it matters.

Whether it’s branding a battery startup or launching grid-edge software, we’ve helped 100+ clean energy and climate tech clients tell their stories and grow.

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Streamlined support

DG+ is a one-stop-shop for cleantech and climate tech companies looking to expand their brand, drive sales, and create value for customers.

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An integrated, fun team

Our team is small by design, so you always work directly with the people doing the work. We collaborate closely, communicate openly, and genuinely get to know our clients.

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Flexible engagement options

We offer project-based, ongoing, and prepaid scope of work options that can be customized to suit your needs and budget.

Working with DG+ has been seamless, in design, transparency, and timing. We are very pleased with their work as it elevated our branding to the next level.

Jacqueline Castillo

Caban

DG+ has been instrumental to our growth at RST CleanTech. Our disruptive technology requires that we not only find the right customers but also properly educate those customers. DG+ provided excellent content from the start and continues to refine and improve our message and get it in front of the right customers. I would strongly recommend DG+.

Matthew Casey

RST CleanTech Solutions

Our collaboration with DG+ has dramatically improved our marketing and customer engagement efforts. The team at DG+ demonstrated a strong understanding of our industry and provided valuable support for our solar and storage marketing campaigns. Their contributions to our website updates, blogs, newsletters, and sales material have proven highly beneficial. Additionally, DG+ has been instrumental in supporting our identity as an industry and thought leader in the solar space.

Michael Boucher

Promise Energy

"DG+ is a great fit for us because of their flexibility, willingness to really understand our business, and the ability to tailor output to fit."

Steven B.

Camus Energy

I really enjoyed working with the DG+ team. We originally chose to work with DG+ due to their environmental focus, flexibility, and responsiveness. They understood our needs as a small company and delivered the products we needed in a well executed and timely manner. We really appreciate all of the help from DG+!

Sydney Bartone

Graphitic Energy

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