Epsilon’s Energy Practice has been a cornerstone of our company since its founding in 1997. We offer services including comprehensive licensing, siting, and permitting services for all types of power generation and delivery systems. As the nature of energy generation and transmission industry has evolved, Epsilon has maintained its position as an industry leader and expanded our depth and breadth of services and experience to meet the changing market conditions.
Epsilon continues to deliver expertise and results to the energy industry when speed to market matters.
As further detailed below, Epsilon’s expertise across the energy industry ranges from the siting and permitting of renewable generation facilities as well as traditional generation and power delivery systems including district heating, combined heat and power projects, substation and compressor station development, liquefied natural gas facilities, natural gas pipelines, and underground and overhead electric transmission projects.
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
Epsilon’s experience and multidisciplinary resources help developers execute Battery Energy Storage System projects efficiently.
Epsilon’s environmental and regulatory specialists, acoustic experts, and planners provide experience and leadership, from initial site selection through project permitting, construction, and operation. Our siting, permitting, and compliance support experience includes hundreds of energy-related projects throughout New England and New York, navigating changes in regulatory requirements while advocating and guiding our clients through the permitting process. We have experience in supporting developers’ BESS projects with in-house siting, permitting and licensing, GIS and acoustic evaluation services, and we leverage this experience to support our clients’ streamlined implementation of utility-scale BESS projects.
Expertise:
Comprehensive regulatory permitting
Compliance monitoring
Ecological impact evaluations
Expert witness testimony
Noise control evaluations
Sound evaluations
Outreach support
Renewables
The U.S. is experiencing a clean energy revolution that has changed the face of power generation, and Epsilon is at the forefront of the industry.
Epsilon’s environmental analysis, licensing, permitting and compliance evaluation services for our renewable energy clients are a solid foundation for our practice, but Epsilon’s true value is realized through the cradle to grave support and industry insight we offer.
While power produced from renewable energy may be the same as any traditional generation project, the regulatory programs and drivers, economics, and means of addressing regional power needs are vastly different. From supporting our clients’ responses to RFPs from government agencies to obtaining local approvals to supporting construction, Epsilon is intensely focused on supporting our renewable energy developer clients with services our competitors can’t match and doing it in an efficient, comprehensive, and cost-effective manner.
Expertise:
Air permitting and modeling
Avian studies
Beneficial Use Determination for fuels
Ecological resources
Environmental permitting, siting, and due diligence
Expert testimony
Field investigations for wetlands, rare species and other
Shadow flicker and photo-simulations
Sound level analyses
Spill Prevention Control & Countermeasure Plans
Transmission line route assessment
Water resources analysis, including gray water reuse
Transmission
Epsilon has a long and proven track record of successfully permitting electric transmission lines, gas pipelines, and their supporting facilities.
The founders of Epsilon included industry leaders in the siting and development of major electric generation and transmission projects. They passed their considerable skills and expertise down to the current generation of Epsilon scientists, engineers, and planners. And as such, siting and permitting of linear power and fuel lines remains a cornerstone of Epsilon’s energy practice, and we are proud to continue our support of local and regional transmission operators.
Our experienced staff has cultivated strong working relationships with the regulatory agencies, and we have a deep knowledge of the regulations and regulatory strategies. We are able to provide important strategic guidance to our clients and identify critical flaws and opportunities during project planning.
This unmatched experience means that Epsilon is leading the way in guiding projects through the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board and Department of Public Utility approval processes, with dozens of generation and transmission projects fully licensed.
Expertise:
Energy Facilities Siting Board and Department of Public Utilities applications
Environmental Inspector Services and Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans
Environmental Management and Construction Plans
Expert testimony and public hearing presentations
GIS mapping
Local, state, and federal environmental permitting
New York Article VII applications
Photo simulations
Routing analysis, site selection, and evaluation of project alternatives
Threatened and endangered species habitat assessments and surveys
Wetlands delineation, functions and values assessments, and mitigation plans
Traditional
Traditional energy generation licensing and permitting has been one of Epsilon’s core services throughout its history.
We provide of a broad spectrum of permitting, compliance, and support services for a variety of facilities, including natural gas generation (baseload and peaking), waste-to-energy facilities, liquefied natural gas facilities, district heating, and institutional and commercial combined heat and power projects.
Our siting and licensing support of new power generation facilities include a range of services from air quality analyses and noise monitoring to wetland delineation, historic preservation, and rare species assessments. Epsilon also performs due diligence studies for power plant acquisitions and assists our clients with fuel type conversions and facility decommissioning.
Epsilon engineers and scientists combine their broad knowledge of the energy industry with experience navigating changing regulatory requirements. They use this knowledge and experience to advocate for our clients, from electric generating facilities, liquefied natural, gas storage facilities, district heating, electric substations, to combined heat and power facilities and guide them through the environmental permitting processes.
Environmental regulatory agencies know Epsilon and what to expect of us, and we know what to expect of them based on many years of working together. Epsilon uses this knowledge to give our clients discrete and practical solutions to obtaining regulatory approvals and helps ensure that no time is wasted on unnecessary steps in obtaining critical project approvals.
Expertise:
Compliance support for existing facilities
Department of Public Utilities and Energy Facilities Siting Board Petitions in MA
Due diligence reviews
Public Service Commission Applications (Art. VII and Art. 10) in NY
Linear routing studies and permitting for transmission lines and pipelines
Multimedia siting and licensing of new electrical generation, including fossil fuel, biofuel, wind and solar
Photo simulations
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