Powering Your Electrical Generating Facilities with Experience
We served our first power generation company over 100 years ago. They are still a client today.
The Burns & McDonnell power team provides current knowledge backed by a century of hands-on experience.
We build lasting power and lasting relationships.
Getting Your Power Off the Ground
Burns & McDonnell experience includes tens of thousands of megawatts of generating capacity fueled by coal, lignite, gas and oil - and hydroelectric generation. We have prepared site selection, environmental and permitting studies for more than 200 different electrical generating facilities. Our permitting expertise covers requirements for air, land and water.
- Permitted over 33,000 megawatts (MW) of coal
- Permitted over 26,000 MW of natural gas
- Permitted/evaluated over 400 MW of wind (wind farms)
- Site selection/evaluation
- Feasibility/fatal flaw review
- Certificate of public convenience application
- Environmental assessment
- Biological field surveys
- Cultural resource surveys
- Aquatic surveys
- Air permitting/air dispersion modeling
- Stormwater permitting
- Water intake/discharge permitting
- Noise monitoring/modeling
- Wetland delineations
- Cooling tower plume modeling
- GIS services
- Transmission line routing