E3 works across the full transmission lifecycle, from identifying what the system needs to developing, permitting, financing, and building the projects that meet those needs.
Planning
Load growth, a changing resource mix, evolving policy, and an aging transmission system are leading the industry to expand and enhance the processes that shape how transmission is planned, permitted, and operated.
We help clients plan proactively rather than reactively, using methods that identify needs robust across a range of futures. We develop integrated generation and transmission planning frameworks that identify least-cost portfolios of bulk grid investments. We evaluate conventional transmission solutions alongside grid-enhancing technologies, advanced conductors, storage, and non-wires alternatives on a consistent cost-effectiveness basis so that solutions are right-sized to meet both near-term and long-term needs. We also support planning regions, transmission owners, and states with FERC Order 1920 compliance, including scenario design, benefit quantification across the required benefit categories, and the cost allocation methods that follow from them.
Development
Identifying a system need and a solution to that need is only the first step in a successful transmission project. Challenges in development, engineering, financing, and construction still have to be addressed before a line gets built, and E3 supports developers and utilities through every phase, from project configuration to energization.
We help clients identify and prioritize the most promising transmission opportunities through site prioritization and market feasibility analysis, and we develop competitive transmission bids, from bid strategy, cost containment, and partnership structuring through full submission development and management, with multiple winning bids across North America. Our team models project risk and supports financing and acquisition transactions, and this work extends to the cost allocation and regulatory pathways that carry an approved project through to completion.
We advise on siting and permitting, including corridor and route evaluation, permitting strategy across state and federal processes, and support to agencies streamlining approval timelines. Across both competitive and incumbent projects, we advise on partnership strategy, helping utilities, developers, and investors structure joint ownership, financing, and operating arrangements and working inside development teams to turn planning objectives into repeatable implementation.
Because we work across policy, planning, markets, and finance, our advisory services reflect how technical needs, regulatory requirements, and project costs interact in practice.
Lakshmi Alagappan
Kevin Steinberger
Jack Moore
