NorthernLights Advisory Services is a specialized, employee-owned technical advisory firm delivering high value Owner’s Engineering (OE) and Independent Engineering (IE) services across the full spectrum of power generation, storage, and transmission technologies. Our experienced team—averaging more than 20 years in the industry—supports developers, owners, lenders, investors, and utilities in:

  • Solar PV (utility-scale, distributed, community solar)

  • Wind (onshore and offshore)

  • Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) (standalone, co-located with solar/wind, and hybrid configurations)

  • Hydropower (conventional, pumped-storage hydro, and run-of-river)

  • Geothermal

  • Natural gas-fired (simple-cycle peaker plants and combined-cycle facilities)

  • Nuclear

  • Biomass and biofuels

  • High-voltage transmission and grid infrastructure (substations, HVDC, interconnection facilities, and grid modernization)

Our practice is staffed with electrical, civil and structural engineers, former developers, technology experts, environmental experts, financial experts, and technical experts that have established themselves as trusted advisors to all parties.

The employees of NorthernLights Advisory Services have been involved in providing independent engineering services on more than 33.4 GW of solar and BESS assets over the past five years either with NorthernLights or prior to joining the company. The figure below shows the location of a sample of solar and battery assets for which our consultants have provided independent engineering services.