Owner’s Engineering Services

We provide proactive, owner-centric support tailored to each technology, with full-lifecycle coverage from early-stage development through COD, operations, repowering, and decommissioning.

  • Early-Stage Development & Feasibility

    • Advanced site screening, site control services, resource/fuel assessments, and project identification using proprietary modeling tools.

    • Interconnection & transmission congestion/curtailment studies (including detailed curtailment & congestion impact assessments). See additional information here.

    • Wind assessment services (detailed wind resource assessment, wake modeling, CFD analysis, and power curve performance analysis) for onshore and offshore wind.

    • Solar resource assessment and solar tuning & performance optimization modeling.

    • Comprehensive BESS Use-Case Optimization & Revenue Stacking Modeling (including multi revenue stream & merchant revenue underwriting support).

    • BESS-specific services: site suitability, initial sizing/optimization via our Advanced BESS Digital Twin, and hybrid solar + BESS optimization studies.

    • Technology evaluation, equipment/vendor qualification, fatal-flaw studies, and project scoping.

    • RFP/tender preparation, bid evaluation, and contractor/vendor selection support.

    • Interconnection services and data center & behind-the-meter / co-located load integration studies (including dedicated gas-fired generation support for data centers).

    • Fuel supply & LNG/pipeline integration assessments (fuel contracting reviews, supply reliability studies, pipeline lateral design support, and LNG terminal tie-in evaluations).

    • Turbine procurement and Long-Term Service Agreement advisory (vendor qualification, bid evaluation, and negotiation support for scarce H-class or advanced turbines).

    • Inflation Resilience Owner’s Engineering Program — value engineering, supply-chain optimization, and tax-credit deadline acceleration (OBBBA commence-construction requirements).

  • Design & Engineering Phase

    • Preliminary and detailed design reviews across all disciplines, including power system studies.

    • Value engineering and optimization using advanced modeling.

    • Plant modernization, efficiency upgrades & flexibility enhancements (detailed technical and economic evaluations of turbine upgrades — advanced blades, combustors, or controls — faster start/ramp capabilities, Flex-Power packages, and efficiency packages targeting >60–63% efficiency, including performance modeling, outage planning, and ROI analysis).

    • Digital twin & advanced performance modeling for gas plants (plant-specific digital twins for real-time optimization, predictive maintenance, dispatch simulation under volatile markets, and integration with renewables or storage).

    • Hydrogen blending & hydrogen-ready plant assessments and carbon capture readiness & integration studies (CCUS).

  • Procurement & Contracting

    • Full contract review, negotiation, and administration (EPC, O&M, PPA, interconnection, supply agreements).

    • Constructability reviews, risk assessments, resilience planning, and serial defect analysis.

    • Technical advisory for BESS-as-a-Service or Performance-Based Contracting Support and LTSA reviews, spare parts strategies, and outage optimization.

  • Construction & Commissioning (Through COD)

    • Full QA/QC, HSE, progress monitoring, inspections, and claims management.

    • Commissioning support and performance/acceptance testing.

  • Operations, Maintenance & Asset Lifecycle (Including Repowering and Decommissioning)

    • Full-lifecycle operating performance reviews & O&M forecasting for all technologies.

    • BESS Degradation Modeling & State-of-Health (SoH) Forecasting and solar degradation & soiling studies.

    • Useful life analysis, lifetime assessments, condition monitoring, training, and customized O&M manuals.

    • Repowering assessments (solar, wind, BESS, and conventional plant upgrades, including coal to-gas conversion assessments with infrastructure reuse, permitting deltas, and cost-benefit analysis).

    • Emissions compliance & regulatory support (detailed emissions control system reviews — dry low NOx, SCR upgrades — compliance modeling under evolving state/federal rules, and Equator Principles/ESG reporting tailored to gas-fired assets).

    • Grid stability & ancillary services optimization (studies for synchronous condenser conversion, inertia provision, reactive power support, and participation in capacity/ancillary markets).

    • Enhanced ESG / Equator Principles Plus compliance, environmental compliance, and permitting support.

    • Spare Parts Inventory Optimization Service — 15–40% inventory reduction and improved availability through multi-echelon optimization and predictive analytics.

    • Satellite-First Asset Performance Monitoring Program for ongoing, cost-effective remote oversight.

    • Advanced BESS Digital Twin and Advanced CCGT Digital Twin for degradation forecasting, dispatch optimization, and State-of-Health projections.

    • Technical support for insurance claims and risk management related to fires, floods, tornadoes, and other natural disasters.

    • Decommissioning planning and financial assurance.

    • Predictive maintenance & AI-driven performance analytics, Virtual Power Plant (VPP) & Aggregator Program Integration, battery second-life & end-of-life strategies, fire safety, thermal management & hazard modeling, and cybersecurity & controls/EMS validation.

  • Additional OE Services

    • Full project/construction management, technology validation, post-handover troubleshooting, and ongoing advanced modeling for optimization.