ESi helps developers, owners, operators, manufacturers, insurers, lenders, and legal stakeholders address technical challenges across a broad range of alternative and renewable energy technologies. Our multidisciplinary engineering and testing capabilities support projects from planning and design through construction, commissioning, operation, and performance assessment.
This expertise helps clients manage technical risk, improve reliability, reduce downtime, and maintain continuity of operations. When failures, claims, or disputes arise, ESi also provides forensic investigation, root cause analysis, and technical support for insurance claims, litigation, and dispute resolution.
Alternative and renewable energy projects present interconnected technical challenges involving equipment performance, structural and mechanical integrity, electrical systems, materials, fire and thermal hazards, grid integration, energy storage, permitting, supply chains, and long-term reliability. Addressing these challenges often requires expertise that extends beyond any single engineering discipline or technology.
Our multidisciplinary teams combine engineering analysis and computational modeling with laboratory examination, field testing and instrumentation, regulatory knowledge, and decades of failure-investigation and root-cause-analysis experience.
This foundation allows us not only to determine why complex systems fail or underperform, but also to help clients assess alternative technologies, evaluate technical and economic considerations, identify risks, and make informed decisions throughout the project lifecycle.
Meet Our Renewables TeamRenewables Applications
ESi provides engineering and technical consulting across a diverse portfolio of technologies, including solar, wind, hydrogen, nuclear and other alternative energy sources, together with the energy-storage, electrical, and supporting systems necessary to integrate and deliver that energy.
Solar Energy Systems
ESi has conducted structural and mechanical assessments of photovoltaic and tracking systems, geotechnical and environmental issues affecting solar installations, and investigations of the electrical performance and failure of system components.
Wind Energy Systems
ESi’s experience in wind energy systems includes operation and maintenance issues, tower and foundation design, vibration and dynamic response, and investigations involving recognized failure modes of bearings, gearboxes, composite blades, and other drivetrain components.
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
ESi combines battery and power-electronics expertise with specialized laboratory and examination capabilities for battery energy storage systems, as well as multidisciplinary teams that evaluate battery cells and modules together with their interacting electrical, thermal, mechanical, and power-electronic systems.
Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Systems
ESi provides engineering and technical consulting related to hydrogen production, storage, transportation, utilization, and hydrogen fuel cell systems, with capabilities in mechanical integrity, materials compatibility, containment equipment, process safety, thermal and chemical systems, and technology integration into larger systems.
Hydropower & Marine Energy
ESi applies structural, mechanical, electrical, materials, and ocean engineering expertise to hydropower and marine energy systems. Our capabilities include evaluation of rotating and mechanical equipment, structures, materials degradation, dynamic and environmental loading, and other engineering issues.
Geothermal, Biomass & Emerging Energy Technologies
ESi supports the development and evaluation of prototype and emerging energy systems, including facilities utilizing alternative fuels and energy sources, with work that addresses challenges in chemical processing, mechanical equipment, materials, thermal systems, controls, and systems integration.
Nuclear Energy Systems
Our nuclear engineers have operational and engineering experience that, combined with ESi’s broader work in conventional steam power plants and power-generation equipment, enables us to evaluate technical issues affecting the integrity, reliability, performance, and safe operation of nuclear energy systems.
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Specialized Solutions for Alternative Energy Sources
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Alfred M. Pettinger, Technical Vice President, Principal
ESi Renewables Capabilities
- Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
- Battery Cells, Modules & Packs
- Battery Management Systems & Power Electronics
- Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Systems
- Solar Tracking & Racking Systems
- Solar Field Structural & Foundation Systems
- Wind Turbines & Towers
- Wind Turbine Foundations
- Wind Turbine Blades & Composite Structures
- Gearboxes, Bearings & Drivetrain Systems
- Inverters, Converters & Power Electronics
- Transformers, Switchgear & Electrical Distribution
- Hydrogen Production, Storage & Distribution Systems
- Fuel Cell Systems
- Hydropower & Marine Energy Systems
- Pumped Storage Systems
- Biomass & Alternative-Fuel Energy Systems
- Steam Turbines & Power Generation Equipment
- Process & Power Piping
- Control, Monitoring & Safety Systems
Why Clients Choose ESi
Alternative and renewable energy systems combine established engineering disciplines with rapidly evolving technologies. ESi brings together engineers and scientists with industry experience and advanced analytical and testing capabilities to support a project from initial evaluation through investigation and dispute resolution.
Direct Alternative & Renewable Energy Experience
ESi professionals bring direct experience in solar, wind, nuclear, and other energy technologies. This combination of technology-specific and conventional power-generation expertise allows ESi to evaluate both individual components and their interaction within the larger energy system.
Advanced In-House Testing & Examination
ESi maintains specialized facilities and equipment for the controlled receipt, examination, testing, and analysis of energy-system components. These capabilities are valuable for electrochemical and electronic systems requiring evidence preservation and sequenced examination.
Integrated Multidisciplinary Engineering & Science
ESi combines engineers across multiple practices with physicists, chemists, and laboratory specialists for a vertically integrated approach, allowing observations from testing and physical examination to be evaluated alongside related disciplines.
Technical Consulting Through Expert Testimony
ESi's technical teams support clients from proactive engineering assessments and risk evaluations through failure investigation and root cause analysis, reducing the need to transfer complex technical issues between separate consulting and expert-witness teams.
