Services for Electric Power Utilities
The electric power industry faces numerous challenges in the coming decade. These include shifts in fuels, increasing pressures from the public and environmental advocacy groups, regulatory changes for air, water, and coal-burning byproducts. Along with such challenges, high-profile events like the tsunami that struck Fukushima, Japan, are reshaping plans and decisions for producing and delivering electricity.
Practice Specifics
Our expertise is widely recognized and sought by power producers and industry organizations. We have been called on to participate in strategic responses to ash spills, create guidance documents, teach client in-house courses, and provide third-party oversight and design optimization and verification for projects.
Our support for our power utilities clients includes the following:
- Conducting geotechnical site investigations for new 365kV lines
- Decommissioning power plants
- Evaluating the integrity of dams, dikes, and ponds
- Designing flood protection plans for nuclear facilities
- Designing and managing ash-storage facilities
Our experts across disciplines help clients understand the water-air nexus in waste reduction. On their behalf, we also interpret the combined impacts of the current and anticipated regulatory changes regarding effluent limitation guidelines (ELGs), coal combustion residuals (CCR), and Section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act.
Services
- Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) & Byproducts
- Engineering Services for CCR
- Groundwater Services for CCR
- Water and Wastewater Services
- Air Quality Services
- Electric Transmission
