GZA Main menu Energy GZA supports its clients in the reliability, resilience, beneficial re-use and decarbonization of energy assets with its full breadth of geotechnical, environmental, ecological, water, and construction management services. Gary McAllister, P.E. PRINCIPAL, ENERGY 781-278-3880 Email Me Image On this page: Overview Focus Areas Featured Projects Related Insights National Safety Council "Perfect Record" Award for five consecutive years First in U.S. offshore wind and port development Multi-discipline services for over 500 circuit miles of electric T&D Multi-discipline services for over 800 solar and battery storage facilities Performed services on over 100 former Manufactured Gas Plant (MGP) site Post-Fukushima flood studies at 25 Nuclear Power Plants Geotechnical and Civil Engineering services on over 300 electric substations GZA's 50+ years working on a wide range of power and oil & gas facilities has earned us a trusted reputation and a strong, vibrant, and growing presence in the energy sector today. Our size and organizational structure provides our clients strong technical depth as well as agile responsiveness, which our clients rely on to support their technically challenging and fast-paced projects and programs. We get your market. Renewable Energy Utilities Fossil Fuels Nuclear Renewable Energy GZA supports the latest wave of major construction and compliance projects as decarbonization initiatives continue to spur unprecedented investments in the development of renewable energy. GZA is a proud leader in geotechnical services for offshore wind developments and land-based infrastructure. GZA provided geotechnical services on four proposed wind farms, including Block Island Wind Farm, the first offshore wind farm in the United States, and we have completed over 300 solar projects. Expertise Offshore Wind Solar Hydropower Land-Based Wind Utilities GZA’s multidisciplinary expertise, proactive approach to regulatory agency engagement, and extensive experience in the power sector, from planning through project close-out, helps our utility clients improve regional reliability, safety, and efficiency. As utilities make significant investments into the beneficial re-use/ mitigation of legacy generation facilities and manufactured gas plants (MGPs), GZA provides specialized technical knowledge of the facilities, fuels, wastes, by-products, and processes necessary to assess and mitigate the associated physical and environmental hazards. It enables clients to redevelop these high-risk liabilities into commercially productive and community-valued assets. With over 30 years of project experience on hundreds of Manufactured Gas Plant (MGP) sites, GZA is one of the few firms in the United States that can assemble an integrated team of in-house experts to support any aspect of an MGP program. With valuable stakeholder input, GZA evaluated risk, and where needed, expedited the planning, design, construction, activation, and maintenance of short- and interim-term flood hardening systems at 31 substations located within inland and coastal Special Flood Hazard Areas. This utility’s existing substations are now significantly more resilient to outages from rising sea levels and the increasing trend in storm-related water damages. Expertise Electric Transmission & Distribution Former Manufactured Gas Plants Nuclear Facilities GZA has safely completed over 120 civil-hydrology, geotechnical and environmental projects at 25 U.S. nuclear plants for owners and engineering firms. Our safety-related projects were completed in compliance with a Nuclear Quality Program per 10 CFR 50 Appendix B. Our engineers and scientists have contributed to the resilience of the most hardened and secure critical infrastructure in the United States. This experience will support the development of innovative designs for new advanced reactor technologies and small modular reactors. Expertise Post-Fukushima Flood Hazard Re-evaluations at 23 plants Independent Spent Fuel Installations (ISFSI) Feasibility Studies and Civil-Hydrological and Geotechnical Design Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Feasibility Studies and Design Groundwater Protection Initiative and Hydrogeological Investigations Plant Decommissioning and Decontamination Support Fossil Fuels We assist clients in their continual efforts to improve the reliability of the nation’s domestic natural gas resources necessary for heating homes and generating electricity during the ongoing retirement of coal- and oil-fired plants. Our engineers and scientists provide a wide range of support services for energy companies grappling with the challenges of producing upstream resources, mitigating midstream transmission constraints, and upgrading and expanding downstream storage, refining, and delivery of oil and natural gas. LNG facilities rely on GZA's full breadth of services from planning through construction and maintenance of major upgrades to improve operational efficiency, meet and exceed regulatory requirements, and increase capacity to serve all customers during future cold weather demands. Expertise Fossil Power Generation Production & Abandonment Pipelines Terminals & Refineries Our work speaks for itself. Explore All Projects Previous Solar Development at Rose Hill, West Kingstown, and University of Rhode Island (URI) Superfund Landfills Markets Energy Services Siting & Permitting Geotechnical Engineering EHS Regulatory Compliance Construction Management Sustainability Services Location Rhode Island Next 1/2 Related to Energy BLOG Top 5 Takeaways from American Clean Power’s Offshore Windpower Conference and Exhibition 2021 Being one of the 1,050 in-person ACP Offshore Windpower 2021 conference attendees this October, showed how much has changed since we were last in person two years ago. ACP complied with the City of... BLOG GZA and Growth of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) At GZA, we provide turnkey services for solar, from site selection to construction. Since we see so many projects in the early planning stages, we’re starting to see rapid growth with Battery Energy... ARTICLE New England Offshore Wind Top 10 Takeaways With a new year and a new pro-offshore-wind Biden Administration, no region of the United States may see as much OSW permitting, design, and pre-construction activity in 2021, as New England. Here are... ARTICLE Solar and Stormwater While the solar revolution has proven overall a boon for the environment, offsetting millions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions by replacing coal, oil, and natural gas for electric generation, one... View All Insights Your success is ours. Tell us about your project. Gary McAllister, P.E. 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