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Markets Energy / Power

Innovative expertise designing energy solutions.

Energy / Power

Innovative expertise designing energy solutions.

SSOE’s experts are well-versed in the many sectors of the energy and power market. In addition to large-scale projects, we’re the go-to resource for your specific and immediate needs such as arc flash mitigation, disturbance monitoring, and Balance of Plant (BoP) projects. Our commitment to value engineering, sustainability, and quality is second to none—we’ve documented more than $48 million in cost savings for our power and energy clients. Working with SSOE you will experience a team that feels like an extension of your own, focused on collaboration and bringing innovative ideas to the table.

$48M

In Savings

SSOE has documented
savings of more than
$48 million for clients
in the energy  / power
sectors.

Top 15

Engineering / Architecture Firm

Top 15 Engineering / Architectural Firm
for the more than a decade (BD+C)

Experts

Published & Proven

Our power experts have
been published in numerous
industry publications discussing
energy trends, cost-effective
improvements, and safety.

Power

Overview
Overview

SSOE’s team works with utility, municipal, and facility power clients, as well as biomass, landfill gas, and waste energy projects. We offer a depth of knowledge in the examination of the economics and lifecycle costs of traditional and renewable energy options. This analysis is applicable to power generation for utility clients, permitting for traditional and renewable fuel boilers, high voltage substation and transmission design systems, industrial and university sized boilers, as well as chilled water and utility infrastructure systems.

Client List
Client List

Municipal Utility Clients

  • American Municipal Power
  • City of Dover, Ohio
  • City of Hamilton, Ohio
  • City of Hillsdale, Michigan
  • City of Lawrenceburg, Ohio
  • City of Painesville, Ohio
  • City of Sturgis, Michigan
  • Michigan South Central Power Agency
  • Village of Clinton, Michigan

Investor Owned Utility Clients

  • American Electric Power
  • Consumers Energy
  • Duke Energy
  • E.ON-US
  • FirstEnergy

Private Sector Clients

  • Chase Brass and Copper Company
  • Dow Corning
  • Emery Industries
  • General Electric
  • Honda of America
  • Merit Energy
  • Penntech Papers
  • Refuse Fuels, Inc.
  • Sauder Woodworking Company
  • University of Toledo
Project Types
Project Types
  • Air pollution control systems
  • Arc flash studies / prevention
  • Ash handling
  • Balance of Plant (BoP) design
  • Boiler upgrades / replacements
  • Coal handling
  • Cogeneration systems
  • Combustion systems
  • Commissioning and start-up
  • Control system upgrades
  • Electrical generation
  • Fuel switching
  • Heat reclamation
  • Low / High pressure steam systems
  • Net zero initiatives
  • New boiler installation
  • Peak shaving
  • Plant upgrade analysis
  • Process automation, PLC, and HMI programming
  • Process instrumentation and controls
  • Rate negotiation / metering evaluation
  • Regulatory compliance, monitoring, and reporting
  • Renewable solutions / sustainability
  • SCADA upgrades
  • Substations
  • Structural modifications
  • Substation design
  • Systems integration
  • Transmission and distribution
  • Waste to energy plants
  • Water treatment

Alternative Energy

Overview
Overview

We are helping clients discover the most advanced, environmentally friendly processes, products, and facilities while saving them millions of dollars. Our alternative energy team is made up of production experts with backgrounds in the food, glass, and petroleum industries as well as specialists with strong résumés in research-driven fields like chemical and pharmaceutical. This experience ensures your processes and facility will incorporate the best technology available today and will have the flexibility to accommodate growth and change in this evolving industry.

Client List
Client List

Ethanol and Biodiesel

  • American Biodiesel
  • Blue Earth Biofuels
  • Lakota Biofuels
  • Memphis Biofuels
  • Solscient Energy
  • Wind Energy Corporation

Fuel Cell

  • GrafTech International
  • University of South Carolina
  • The University of Toledo

LEED Facility Design

  • Honda of America
  • Toyota
  • University of South Carolina
  • Volkswagen

Solar

  • First Solar
  • Xunlight
Project Types
Project Types
  • Battery
  • Biodiesel production
  • Biomass
  • Coal gasification
  • Ethanol production
  • Fuel cell
  • Hydro
  • Hydrogen
  • Landfill gas
  • LEED® facilities
  • Solar energy component production
  • System integration
  • Waste to energy
  • Wind energy
Technical Specialties
Technical Specialties
  • Cleanroom technology
  • Conservation of materials and resources
  • Energy efficiency and renewable energy
  • Ethanol Balance of Plant (BoP) design
  • Front-end engineering and feasibility studies
  • Hydrogen storage and fuel cell research
  • Indoor environmental quality
  • LEED® certification
  • Material handling
  • Power generation / distribution, peak shaving, and cogeneration
  • Process design for hydrogen production, distribution, and storage
  • Project management
  • Proprietary biodiesel process
  • Recycling and chemical separation
  • Safeguarding water and water efficiency
  • Sustainable facility design  and evaluation
  • Sustainable site selection and planning

Pipelines & Terminals

Overview
Overview

Our experts have completed over 1,000 pipeline and terminal projects with major petroleum and gas companies. SSOE’s experience spans projects all over the world of any size, scope, and level of complexity from system designs, retrofits, and relocations to terminals and stations. This experience translates to an innovative approach of creative problem solving. In working through countless project challenges, we’ve gained the knowledge to develop better — and often unique — options that save you time, trouble, and money.

Client List
Client List
  • ANR Pipeline Company
  • Consumers Energy
  • DTE Energy
  • EP Energy
  • Enbridge
  • EPCO – Engineered Products Company
  • Great Lakes
  • Gas Transmission
  • Magellan
  • Major Pipeline
  • Marathon Petroleum Company
  • Merit Energy
  • Michigan Consolidated Gas
  • Owens Corning
  • Shell
  • Texas Gas Transmission
  • Vectren Corporation
  • Whiting Petroleum Corporation
Project Types
Project Types
  • Asphalt terminals
  • Cast iron / bare steel replacement
  • Compressor stations
  • Electrical infrastructure upgrades
  • Gas distribution system design
  • Mainline valve stations
  • Metering stations
  • New stations
  • Odorization system
  • Pipeline relocation
  • Pipeline terminals
  • Power system evaluations / upgrades
  • Product storage terminals
  • Regulator stations
  • Retrofits / upgrades to pumping stations
Technical Specialties
Technical Specialties
  • Aboveground storage tanks (ASTs)
  • Anomaly remediation
  • Asphalt blending systems design
  • Asphalt / petroleum loading and unloading
  • Asphalt vapor abatement system design
  • Biodiesel / ethanol storage
  • Blast-resistant building construction
  • Commissioning and start-up
  • Compression / pumping station design
  • Conceptual design
  • Construction management
  • Cost estimating and budgeting
  • Distribution system mapping
  • Electrical power distribution upgrades
  • Electrical power quality / reliability
  • Environmental compliance
  • Equipment specifications
  • Feasibility studies
  • Fuel / Biofuel blending
  • Heat trace systems
  • Launcher / receiver design
  • Load rack fall protection
  • Noise control
  • Pipeline design
  • Pipeline integrity
  • Pipe stress analysis
  • Polymerized asphalt production facility design
  • Process automation, PLC, and HMI programming
  • Process hazard reviews
  • Process instrumentation and controls
  • Process simulation
  • Procurement
  • Project close-out / as-built drawings
  • Project management
  • Project scheduling
  • Safety improvements integration
  • Storage field gas processing
  • Systems integration, control system, and SCADA upgrades
  • Terminal facilities (truck, rail, marine)
  • Terminal piping systems design

Petroleum Refining

Overview
Overview

As a Top 20 Chemical Plant Design firm for the past decade (ENR), we’ll deliver an integrated solution for infrastructure, petroleum process engineering, project management, and facility design. Our specialists bring first-hand experience working in a petroleum environment, enabling them to meet the unique challenges found in petroleum operations. SSOE’s team uses the latest technologies to respond quickly and develop cost-effective solutions for our clients with process simulations, smart P&IDs, pipe stress analyses, structural analyses, electronic power distributions plans, and project schedules.

Client List
Client List
  • Buckeye Pipeline
  • EP Energy
  • Marathon Petroleum Company
  • Premcor
  • Sunoco
  • TEPPCO Partners
Project Types
Project Types
  • Blast resistant building construction
  • Environmental compliance
  • Facilities siting / design
  • Infrastructure (utilities, roads, sewers, power)
  • Inside battery limit improvements
  • Off-site modifications and additions
  • Pipeline design
  • Process improvements
  • Refining
  • Retrofits / upgrades
  • Terminal operations (asphalt, marine, light products)
  • Risk management
  • Security
  • Tank farm improvements
  • Turnaround services
  • Wastewater treatment
Technical Specialties
Technical Specialties
  • 3D CAD modeling
  • Arc flash study
  • Commissioning and start-up
  • Cost estimating and budgeting
  • Detailed design
  • Environmental compliance
  • Equipment specification and procurement
  • Feasibility studies
  • Fire protection
  • Front-end concept engineering and studies
  • Hazardous and flammable storage
  • Hazardous area classification
  • P&ID development
  • Pipe stress analysis
  • Pipe supports and foundations
  • Power distribution
  • Power system coordination
  • Process automation, programmable logic controller (PLC), and human machine interface (HMI) programming
  • Process engineering
  • Process hazard reviews
  • Process instrumentation and controls
  • Process simulation
  • Pump / Equipment sizing
  • Support facility design
  • Systems integration, control system upgrades
  • Vessel and tank concept design

Architecturally Driven Solutions for Energy / Power Clients

In addition to our industrial solutions for the energy / power market, SSOE is at the forefront of designing for an evolving workplace. Our passion for design creatively integrates your brand identity into your built environment, enhancing the experience for employees and visitors alike. We recognize your facilities are the messengers for all that your brand stands for, whether it’s your office building, R&D facilities, employee training areas, and workforce development spaces. SSOE’s acquisition of Stevens & Wilkinson, an award-winning architecture and interior design firm, elevates your facility into a strategic advantage. Take another look here.

Featured Projects

Asphalt Load Rack Upgrade
Asphalt Load Rack Upgrade
Marathon Oil Corporation
Nuclear Regulatory Agency New Campus
Nuclear Regulatory Agency New Campus
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
A/E Services for Facilities Master Planning
A/E Services for Facilities Master Planning
U.S. EPA
Pipeline and Meter Station Replacement
Pipeline and Meter Station Replacement
Consumers Energy Company
Blast Resistant Central Control Facility
Blast Resistant Central Control Facility
Husky Energy, Inc.
Ethanol Facility Expansion
Ethanol Facility Expansion
Glacial Lakes Energy, LLC
View Additional Energy / Power Projects

Featured News
Plant Engineering Article: “Three Strategy Tips for Optimizing your Next Energy Assessment”
June 30, 2020

Plant Engineering Article: “Three Strategy Tips for Optimizing your Next Energy Assessment”

SSOE Group Recognized as 2018 MEP Giant
October 9, 2018

SSOE Group Recognized as 2018 MEP Giant

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