End users of electricity have more options than ever as renewable and distributed energy resources (DER), including microgrids, solar, wind, and battery storage, become more accessible and competitively priced for homeowners and businesses alike. As the power grid and critical infrastructure become ever-more technologically advanced, we’re helping our clients address changing customer demands, comply with regulatory requirements, maximize revenues and establish themselves as preferred energy partners.
To maintain resiliency and security-physical and cyber-clients are challenged with becoming the agile market operators who will balance cost, technology, regulation and sustainability. It’s complicated, but solutions are readily available. Black & Veatch works alongside clients to craft constructive, data-driven strategies for asset management and capital allocation. We’re enabling profitable investments in generation, storage, transmission and distribution of safe, reliable electric power.
We are a global solutions provider with highly skilled professionals who deliver planning, consulting, engineering, construction, program management and combined engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) solutions to meet our clients’ rapidly changing infrastructure needs. Our service offerings include conventional, renewable, and distributed power generation, transmission and distribution, microgrids, and behind-the-meter services.
Air Quality Control (AQC)
Alternative & Renewable Energy
Combined Heat & Power
Distributed Energy Resources
The cost of renewable technologies continues to decline. Natural gas prices are low and have been relatively stable for nearly a decade. At the same time, government, industrial, commercial and residential customers are demanding greater access and use of clean energy technologies, lower energy costs and enhanced energy security at the distribution level and behind the meter.
Black & Veatch brings significant programmatic experience across all technologies and fuel sources to deliver sustainable and resilient distributed generation solutions.
Energy Storage
Environmental Services
Fossil Fuel Generation
Utilities seek answers and direction based on fact and insight. Black & Veatch helps plan, build and operate new plants. We guide clients through decisions to refurbish, retrofit or retire a facility. We make an efficient and compliant operation possible through smooth project delivery.
Industrial & Institutional
Black & Veatch Industrial and Institutional Services provide clients with global experience and local resources to create innovative solutions for their energy, water, industrial process, operations & maintenance, and sustainability needs. As a leading global engineering, consulting and construction provider, we work closely with clients to deliver solutions regardless of project size or location.
Microgrids
Utilities, communities, and energy consumers are actively investigating microgrids as a solution for reaching sustainability, resiliency, and cost-certainty objectives. Microgrids support greater levels of intermittent renewable resource integration, and enhance energy security for mission-critical facilities and operations.
Nuclear
Our professionals design and build ways to enhance security and extend the life of nuclear power plants. We also participate in the deployment of Generation III and the development of Generation IV nuclear power technologies.
Our nuclear power teams provide planning, engineering and construction services. They guide clients in selecting the right technology, moving forward with regulatory approvals, and ensuring safe, reliable, and timely project completion.
Overhead & Underground Transmission
Power delivery challenges are consistently growing in complexity. A variety of forces are driving the need for overhead and underground transmission lines to efficiently move electricity.
We collaboratively meet our clients’ cost, schedule and performance expectations through proven planning, design and construction services for transmission projects of all sizes and voltages. We coordinate with our clients to avoid environmental impacts where possible and meet regulatory requirements. We also are on the leading edge of technologies such as underground transmission design.
Power Generation
Black & Veatch provides complete services, from concept through construction and operations, for all types of utility-scale power generation assets. We help clients plan, build, and operate new plants and evaluate options to refurbish, repower, retrofit, or retire existing facilities. We also provide comprehensive environmental services so your facilities can meet current and future regulations.
Solar Energy
Substations
We enable reliable and secure grid operations through the design and construction of robust substation and related interconnection facilities, ranging up to 500kV. Our substation experience and expertise includes:
Transmission & Distribution
A modern grid requires modern solutions and technologies. To build the grid of the future, clients must make efficient use of their existing facilities, adapt to ever-changing generation sources, and be able to integrate greater amounts of intermittent renewable resources, all without sacrificing reliability.
Black & Veatch is a full-service engineering provider with in-house procurement and construction capabilities. We also provide expertise in substation siting, transmission line-routing, all types of permitting, and all environmental areas.
Wind Energy
Wind development activity remains strong globally. Improved economics and advanced technology support project viability and continued wind investment.
Full and Partial wind repowers enable owners to utilize existing infrastructure, expand megawatt (MW) output, extend the operating life of assets, and maximize return on investment with upgraded wind facilities. Offshore wind is underway in Europe and developing in other regions.
Related Projects
Unique assessment advances commercial viability of tidal energy
Tidal stream energy could theoretically supply more than 150 terawatt hours per annum globally. This represents a potential total global market of up to 50 gigawatts (GW) of generating capacity.
Tidal stream energy is a significant renewable energy source because, although it varies, the power output is highly predictable. As a result, it can help to balance supply and demand as part of a balanced energy mix alongside other renewable sources such as wind and solar power.
Maximising environmental and social value through innovative integration of landscape design, natural capital accounting and interactive mapping
With climate change placing increasing pressure on budgets for flood alleviation schemes, and other measures to increase resilience, it is vital clients can access innovative funding models to ensure communities are protected. It’s equally vital that such projects engage fully with the people they protect and create a legacy that provides multiple, sustainable benefits for the community.
Mohawk Valley EDGE Substation Powers Economic Growth in Upstate New York
The completion of a new electrical substation will help power economic development in Oneida County, New York, by supplying electricity to a new $1 billion state-of-the-art, highly-automated world's-first silicon carbide wafer fabrication facility that is expected to draw more than 600 highly-skilled jobs to the region.
Transmission Replacement Project Ensures Reliable Power Future for Glenwood Springs
Related Perspectives
With the March of Renewables, Electricity Sector Latest Industry to Undergo Transformation
Resources
The Economic Impact of COVID-19 for Utilities
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to upend markets around the world, our clients are facing a landscape of increasing uncertainty that will be challenging to navigate. While utilities are resilient, having experienced and weathered crises in the past, the unique and unprecedented nature of this pandemic and its consequences are creating an entirely new experience. As of March 31, the group recorded a total market capitalization of $682.87 billion – down 13 percent from the $783.97 billion reported on December 31, 2019. Deepa Poduval, Senior Managing Director and Associate Vice President for Black & Veatch Management Consulting, addresses the potential impacts of COVID-19 on our utility clients.
Smart Analytics Adaptive Planning Solutions
Black & Veatch’s Adaptive Planning (AP) Solutions perform predictive simulations using past and current data to create, compare, and inform complex planning, operational, and business decisions.
We Know the Environment
Black & Veatch is an employee-owned engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company with a 100-year legacy of innovation in sustainable infrastructure. Achieve better economic, stakeholder and project outcomes through multi-disciplinary and integrated solutions that address the environmental needs of today and can mitigate future risk.
Development Services for New Generation
Today, new generation projects must address and solve an unprecedented number of issues early in the project development phase. The timely and efficient resolution of these issues has a direct impact on cost and schedule. Black & Veatch is structured to assist our clients in balancing diverse goals and managing complex issues surrounding new generation project development.