Merjent Power Team

Electric transmission, wind, and solar, experts

Ready For A Challenge

Merjent’s seasoned professionals provide environmental services to secure all levels of permits & approvals for power projects. Our team understands the complexities of project economics and scheduling, and we fully appreciate the demands construction compliance obligations can place on both.

Merjent Power Services

Comprehensive solutions for high-voltage transmission line systems, and commercial wind, solar, and hydro, energy projects, including:

Nationwide Experience

Merjent staff have decades of specialized experience working on commercial scale wind, solar, and hydropower projects, as well as thousands of miles of transmission projects throughout the United States.

Planning and Feasibility

At the beginning of any project our team provides valuable information and insights including:

Pre-feasibility and feasibility studies
Preliminary environmental due diligence review
Suitability modeling
Constraints analyses
Pre-permitting strategy development and scheduling for critical path efforts
Comprehensive project permit matrix
Siting alternatives analyses for power generation facilities
Routing alternatives analyses for linear electric transmission
Geographic information system (GIS) mapping
GIS-based land use analysis

Public Outreach & Stakeholder Engagement

Merjent’s team of experts can help you through the outreach phase of your project. We have experience with:

Strategizing options for public outreach efforts
Creating mailing lists and management of lists (e.g., landowner, agencies, municipalities)
Coordinating with agency and municipal representatives
Preparing project introduction and request for comment letters
Supporting public and agency meetings
Comment tracking, analyses, and summaries
Updating project information for use with outreach efforts
Project visualization imaging

Environmental Reviews and Field Studies

Merjent has decades of experience with environmental reviews and field studies including:

Environmental due diligence (desktop and field review)
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review
Federal environmental assessment (EA) and environmental impact statement (EIS) preparation
Equivalent state-level environmental review document preparation
Phase I environmental site assessment (ESA) preparation
Coordinating aviation, lighting, noise, shadow flicker, and electromagnetic field assessments
Conducting visual impact photo simulations
Performing biological services for threatened and endangered (T&E) species and wetlands/waterbodies:
- agency consultations
- project-specific species habitat assessments and field surveys (federal and state)
- wetland and waterbody assessments and delineations
- biological and wetland mitigation and monitoring plans
Cultural resources services:
- agency coordination
- GIS-based predictive modeling
- State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) reviews
- federal Section 106 compliance
- historic architectural inventory
- cultural resources review
- avoidance, mitigation, and unanticipated discovery plans

Permitting

Our experts have the knowledge and skill to guide your project through the regulatory process. Merjent’s team has cultivated excelent working relationships with federal, state, and local, agencies including:

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Farm Service Agency
- Forest Service
- Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Rural Utility Service
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Department of Interior
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
- Indian Affairs (BIA)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
National Park Service
Federal Aviation Administration

Merjent’s permitting specialists are already familiar with the regulatory environment for power projects. We have sucessfully:

Managed federal resource agency consultations and approvals
Applied for certificates of need, certificates of public convenience and necessity, and related purpose and need documents
Composed state high-voltage transmission line route permit applications
Obtained state large energy generation project site permits
Navigated natural resource permit applications, approvals, and consultations

Merjent has a deep bench of experts on agricultural impact mitigation agreements, best management practices, pre-construction surveys, and post-construction monitoring. Say the word and we’ll help navigate your project through the process.

Construction and Restoration Support

Merjent offers a wide range of construction and restoration services for new projects and O&M including:

Project-specific environmental mitigation plans to address construction activities and implementation of permits and approvals
Permit book preparation (e.g., contacts, permits and their conditions, relevant construction and environmental management plans)
Permit training for inspectors and contractors
Applicant and third-party environmental inspection and documentation (i.e., agency compliance monitoring) including daily, weekly, and closeout reports
Construction stormwater permitting, SWPPP development, and associated compliance inspections
Spill prevention, containment, control and countermeasure plans
Facility response plans
Tablet-based data reporting and management system technology solutions
Health and safety support (development and management of project-specific plans and field survey programs)
Restoration “punch-lists” of areas requiring additional work (e.g., erosion controls, rutting repairs)
Site restoration
Post-construction monitoring

Engineering

Merjent’s engineering team offers project expertise both as a primary resource or integrated into our environmental consulting teams.

We promote an environment where people and projects succeed.