What You Can Do Today
Climate change, water scarcity and energy assurance loom before us as forces to
be reckoned with. The issues are daunting in its size, complexity and economy-wide
breadth. Dealing with these issues will demand political will and wisdom, but even
more fundamentally it will require far-sighted management and creative engineering.
At its core, GHG emissions reduction is one more very large management and engineering
problem to solve in the quest for the most efficient and environmentally sustainable
method of supplying the power and water that people need. Solving such problems
is what good consultants and engineers do.
In that sense, Black & Veatch is pioneering thorough solutions to this formidable
challenge: We have the services and top-notch talent needed to get your company
to the top. Black & Veatch stands ready to partner with our clients in developing
practical, sustainable solutions to the challenges of climate change. Working together,
we can ensure that the power and water we need will remain readily available, affordable
and environmentally friendly.
Conservation
Reducing energy requirements is an intelligent choice for your customers, and a
sound public relations effort on your part. This conservation can help forestall
the need for additional generation and certainly helps manage your customer’s usage
and cost. Demand Side Management (DSM) and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
projects make a great deal of sense in this business environment.
Assessment and Strategy Development
Positioning yourself effectively to meet environmental challenges will require a
great deal of information about the current state of your company. Black & Veatch
can help you benchmark where you stand relative to future goals and help develop
a strategy to direct the company from the highest level, or from the perspective
of different groups of assets:
Carbon Emissions Profiling
Risk Assessment
Risk Management Solutions and Opportunities
Strategy Design and Implementation
Design/Build Services
Even in this uncertain environment, there are many “safe” design-build projects
that can be undertaken. Black & Veatch, the EPC firm of choice for projects
of this type for more than 90 years is your best choice for adding scrubbers and
other Air Quality Control Systems to existing generation, for building gas-fired
plants to meet interim generation requirements, and for designing and building the
generation facilities that will meet tomorrow’s needs.
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Mitigation Services
Whether you operate in a geography where GHG and CO2 regulations are firmly established,
or if you operate in a place where the regulations are still being decided, it is
clear that power producers have a responsibility to offer clean, sustainable and
affordable power. Black & Veatch has the knowledge, experience and technology
to help create environmentally and economically sound solutions to your most complex
challenges.