Free Energy Consulting is a project oriented private company, offering their expertise in the field of solar electricity to interested companies, governmental organisations and institutions.

The founder of Free Energy Consulting is Peter van der Vleuten, who has an extensive background in solar electricity:
As president of Free Energy Europe he gained experience with the development, manufacture and worldwide marketing of thin film silicon modules, while his presidency of Free Energy International involved him in strategy and finance in the field of solar electricity, as well as in many joint research and development projects. As chairman of the Free Energy Foundation, Peter´s focus has been on awareness campaigns and dealer support in rural areas in developing countries. He has been involved in work on VLS-PV for desert applications from 1996 and has enjoyed contributing significantly to the IEA PVPS Task 8 project.
In addition to his work in IEA PVPS, Task 8, Peter is also involved in the activities of the Observatoire Méditerranéen de l´Energie (OME RESDC), as well as in the Mediterranean Solar Plan (MSP).
In the field of R & D, Peter has, with his company Free Energy International, been the formal coordinator of the EUREKA MYCRYSTAL project; this included the "development of a proof of principle for a new process technology for solar cells based on thin films of silicon, to reduce the cost of photovoltaic cells while maintaining similar conversion efficiencies".
In the year 2009, Peter advised ECN in extending their operations with an R & D facility in Eindhoven and he took the initiative to design a Solar Energy Roadmap for the Province of Noord Brabant. As a follow-up on these activities, Free Energy Consulting is supporting several local companies with starting or expanding their industrial activities in the field of solar electricity.