Strategic Consulting
From Owner’s Engineering support to transactional support including Independent Engineering Due Diligence, POWER Engineers is ready to provide you creative solutions that can add value to your project. We’ve successfully served utility, IPP, financial, federal, international and government clients.
OE and Transactional Consulting Support Services
As an Owner’s or Independent Engineer, we can identify and manage project risks, plan for successful project execution and ensure responsive performance of contracted activities.
Our services include:
- Project Development Support
- Site Selection and Environmental Assessments
- Licensing and Permitting Support
- Conceptual and Preliminary Engineering Studies
- Plant Performance Modeling
- Project Capital and Lifecycle Cost Estimates
- Contract Development and Negotiating Support
- Project Implementation and Compliance Reviews
- Project Financing Support
- Financial Proforma Development and Analysis
- Risk and Condition Assessments
- Value Engineering Studies
- Procurement Services
- Project Execution Oversight
Renewables
POWER has extensive experience in the evaluation, development and engineering of renewable and emerging renewable technologies, including:
- Geothermal
- Wind
- PV and concentrated solar PV
- Solar thermal
- Fuel cells
- Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)
- Organic Rankine Cycle and Stirling engines
- Solid fuel gasification and liquefaction
- Energy storage systems
Our renewables strategic consulting services include:
- Emerging technology and commercial readiness assessments
- Fatal flaw analyses
- Performance modeling and financial evaluations
- Feasibility studies
- Conceptual engineering development
Emerging Nuclear Technologies
POWER has been involved in the development of a number of advanced and first-of-a-kind designs of new nuclear reactor technology. We’ve also provided recent engineering and conceptual design services for the following four small modular reactors (SMRs) and advanced reactors:
- TerraPower Traveling Wave Reactor
- GE PRISM
- Toshiba 4S Reactor
- B&W mPower Reactor
Permitting Support
POWER conducts the complete spectrum of licensing activities and preparation of licensing documents at the international, federal, state and local levels. We can organize your licensing effort, prepare applications for licenses and permits for all government agencies, and appear at federal, state and local public hearings.
- Permitting Strategy Development
- Full Spectrum Environmental Permitting Services from linear permitting to
air dispersion modeling - Design Certification and Technical Support Services
- 316b Support—Fossil and Nuclear
Thermal Cycle Efficiency Improvements
- Heat Balance Analyses and Cycle Improvements
- Binary, Topping and Bottoming Cycle Development
- Low Grade Waste Heat Utilization
- Blowdown Recovery and Moisture pre-separation for Nuclear Plants
Global Experience and Expertise
POWER’s Strategic Consulting practice has true global experience and capability, including completed fossil and renewable projects in Turkey, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Korea, Mongolia, Latin America, Australia and Africa.