Exponent provides multi-disciplinary expertise and rapid response to assist electric utility clients with technical and managerial support services, often in extremely short time frames. Our consultants cover engineering, construction, environmental, risk, and health disciplines. Exponent offers its electric utility clients the following:
- Proven experience on high-profile projects
- Current, in-depth functional knowledge of engineering fundamentals: electrical, structural, metallurgical, chemical, environmental, and others
- Convergence of our skills in risk, reliability, and vulnerability analyses
- Operational knowledge of the electric transmission and distribution industry, from construction to O&M to public health and environmental risk management
Exponent’s engineering services address the electric utility industry’s needs for design, construction, failure analysis, repair, and retrofit, with a focus on:
Power Systems Analysis
- T&D technology assessments
- High-voltage DC system applications
- Applications of power electronic systems in T&D systems
- Protective relaying system assessments
- Stray-voltage analysis
- Outage analysis
Electrical Engineering
- Electric and magnetic field assessments for permit applications
- High-voltage DC system design
- Reactive power compensation system design
- Power quality system study and remedy design
- T&D equipment design and applications
- Electric equipment (transformer, breakers, etc.) failure analysis
- Power system transient study and simulation
Risk and Reliability Assessment 
- Safety and process risk management
- Electric hazard and arc-flash study
Reliability and Maintenance Programs
- Equipment condition monitoring
- Remaining-life assessment
- Root-cause and corrective-action assessment
Thermal Sciences
- Fire and explosion investigation
- Industrial equipment analysis
Material Deterioration /Mechanics
- Corrosion science and engineering
- Fitness for services
- Mechanical performance
- Risk assessment/Hazop
Construction Consulting 
- Construction management
- Project scheduling
- Cost estimation
- Delay analysis
Structural Performance
- Structural engineering
- Geotechnical evaluations
Environmental and Health
Exponent has evaluated environmental and health issues relating to AC and high-voltage DC electric delivery systems for many years. Our expertise includes:
- EMF effects
- Stray-voltage impacts
- Site investigation and remediation consulting
- Human health risk assessment