From First Sketch to First Kilowatt
Original Design & Early-Stage Innovation
Engineering What Doesn’t Exist Yet
Before there’s a prototype, before there’s a product—there’s concept, architecture, and trust in the physics. Tim Sasseen has spent his career designing energy systems that didn’t exist yet, and making them real. His early-stage work has shaped some of the most impactful technologies in clean energy today.
What Tim Brings to Early-Stage Energy Projects:
“The earliest design decisions determine whether a clean energy system will scale—or stall. Tim’s early-stage work makes sure our investment pays off.”
Looking to move from napkin sketch to functioning system?
Tim partners with teams, startups, and agencies to turn early energy concepts into working, scalable, certifiable systems—ready for the real world.
Contact Tim to collaborate on design strategy or early-stage development.
Before there’s a prototype, before there’s a product—there’s concept, architecture, and trust in the physics. Tim Sasseen has spent his career designing energy systems that didn’t exist yet, and making them real. His early-stage work has shaped some of the most impactful technologies in clean energy today.
What Tim Brings to Early-Stage Energy Projects:
- Concept development for clean energy systems, from fuel cells to wind to microgrids
- Functional architecture and system modeling
- Hardware/software integration strategies
- Design-for-certification with UL, IEC, and grid interconnection compliance
- First-principles optimization of powertrain, control, and storage systems
- Rapid prototyping leadership with short time-to-hardware cycles
- Alignment with funding, policy, and commercialization from day one
- Re-architected the world’s best-selling small wind turbine, tripling sales and cutting warranty claims by 90%
- Led the design of a 400kW distributed-generation wind turbine—from concept to functioning hardware in under 12 months
- Created a silicon carbide-based utility converter on a single PCB, achieving 99% efficiency
- Designed microgrid blackstart systems using flywheel, saltwater, and flow battery storage technologies
- Developed the electrical and control systems for fuel cell modules used in the 2010 Olympic bus fleet
“The earliest design decisions determine whether a clean energy system will scale—or stall. Tim’s early-stage work makes sure our investment pays off.”
Looking to move from napkin sketch to functioning system?
Tim partners with teams, startups, and agencies to turn early energy concepts into working, scalable, certifiable systems—ready for the real world.
Contact Tim to collaborate on design strategy or early-stage development.
