The Team

Two partners. No hand-offs.

The people who write your business case are the people who sit at your table, meet your funders, and stand on your site. Behind them, a project team and a delivery partner network carry the work at scale.

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Nick Mintoft

P.Eng. (APEGA) · Founder & Partner · Calgary

A Professional Engineer, Nick has spent his career across conventional and clean energy. Ten years in traditional oil and gas covering reservoir engineering, completions, and production economics, alongside geothermal generation studies. He founded Solarcor in 2015, and together he and Devon rebuilt it into the management consulting practice it is today. His current work extends into biofuels and applied AI. Across his engineering career he has developed or worked on more than 100 capital projects, from $10K community systems to $100M programs at one of Canada's largest energy producers.

  • Helped secure Canada's first Indigenous CanExport Community Investments grant
  • Advised a major Canadian electricity producer on net-zero strategy, contributing to a $5M Emissions Reduction Alberta award
  • Secured $3M in pilot funding for a world-first subsurface imaging technology, including $1M from Alberta Innovates
  • Built a secure virtual data room that helped raise over $1M in private investment
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Devon Ambros

Partner · CEA Subject Matter Expert · Aberdeen

Devon brings 30+ years of entrepreneurial and hands-on agricultural experience. Before consulting, he designed, built, and operated a 90,000 sq. ft. computer-controlled greenhouse complex with up to 40 staff and $1.4M in annual sales to major retail chains. He now applies that experience to controlled environment agriculture, forestry, and community enterprise development.

  • Negotiated a precedent-setting utility franchise waiver between a provincial crown corporation and a First Nations government
  • Led the development of a hybrid community microgrid, from feasibility through detailed engineering design
  • Drove a community vertical farm from feasibility through a full business case and technology procurement
  • Grant writer with millions secured from federal and provincial programs for community clients

Project team & partner network

The partners lead every engagement, and they are not alone. A Solarcor project team supports research, documentation, and program coordination across active files.

Around the firm sits a proven delivery network built over a decade of projects. Consulting engineers and a licensed Engineer-of-Record for regulated design work, a provincial research council for microgrid modelling and validation, federal research facilities for technology certification, Indigenous-owned implementation contractors, and college and university partners for workforce training. When your project needs a capability we do not carry in-house, we already know who does it well.

Who we are, and who we aren't

Solarcor is not an Indigenous-owned firm, and we never present ourselves as one. We are an independent consulting firm that works in service of Indigenous self-determination, and we believe being upfront about who we are is where good partnership starts.

What that means in practice is simple. Every engagement with a Nation is governed by OCAP® principles, so data, knowledge, and intellectual property belong to the community. We hire and train through Indigenous youth training programs within our own operations. We structure our work so communities gain the technical, operational, and managerial capacity to own and operate what we deliver. And we measure our success by what remains after we leave. Operating assets, trained people, and revenue that stays home.

About Solarcor

Consultants who have built what they advise on

Solarcor Energy Inc. is a management consulting firm with offices in Calgary and Aberdeen, serving clients across Alberta and Saskatchewan and beyond. We specialize in taking projects from concept to shovel-ready by combining financial analysis, funding strategy, procurement, and governance design.

Our practice today is consulting. Our credibility comes from delivery. We have produced oil and gas, evaluated geothermal reservoirs, installed solar across the Prairies, and run commercial growing operations at scale. That background means our advice is grounded in what actually gets built.

Roots in the field

Before we wrote business cases, we pulled wire at minus 40, commissioned systems built to Arctic specifications, optimized producing wells, and grew product for major retail chains.

That hands-on history shapes how we evaluate vendors, scope engineering work, and pressure-test budgets. We know what good looks like on the ground because we have stood there.

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