Energy

Epsilon's team of energy transmission specialists, coastal scientists, marine biologists, and ecologists together offer the expertise that is essential for successfully navigating through the highly complex federal, state, regional, and local offshore wind development permitting process.

Our federal, state, regional, and local permitting and approvals assistance includes support for BOEM COP filing, offshore and coastal terminals, submarine cables and pipelines, offshore sand mining, onshore transmission, and regional electrical grid interconnections.

Epsilon offers comprehensive environmental services including wetlands and rare species permitting, detailed development constraints analyses, transmission line routing expertise, and sound level monitoring and modeling services.

Epsilon's consulting scientists offer federal, state, and local environmental compliance and permitting services in coordination with our compliance resources, including acoustics, GIS, and credentialed wildlife biologists, ecologists, and wetland scientists.

We specialize in solar and Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) acoustics/noise consulting and permitting services. Using Cadna/A (Computer Aided Noise Abatement) software, Epsilon has conducted over 200 sound level modeling and monitoring studies for energy projects across the United States and Canada, including dozens of solar and BESS developments.

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.

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.