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OUR WORK IN THE ENERGY INDUSTRY

From Generation to Integration

Backed by decades of experience and deep roots in the energy industry, Exponent helps you address technical, regulatory, and operational challenges across the full energy spectrum, whether you're initiating new development, investigating a failure, or addressing a dispute.

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Oil & Gas Consulting

Address engineering, compliance, and safety challenges across upstream, midstream, and downstream operations.

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Renewable Energy Consulting

Exponent's unmatched expertise and rigorous evaluations help mitigate risk, diagnose failures, and protect renewable project investments.

Utilities

More than five decades of unrivaled expertise solving problems, performing risk evaluations, and modernizing the utilities industry.

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Hydrogen Systems & Fuel Cell Technologies

Innovate with new hydrogen technologies and solve challenges with electrolyzers, fuel cells, liquefaction technologies, and ammonia conversion systems.

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Hard-Wired for Your Toughest Challenges

Powerful Insights for Peak Demands

When energy and climate challenges threaten reliability, safety, performance, or environmental compliance, Exponent delivers independent engineering and scientific perspectives that help you identify and mitigate risk, resolve disputes, and protect long-term operational performance.

Hard-Wired for Your Toughest Challenges

Powerful Insights for Peak Demands

Successfully Managing the Renewable Generation Interconnection Process

Nuclear Power's Small Modular Future

How Did Copper Contamination Cause Pipeline Cracking?

Key Engineering Challenges for Underground Gas Storage Applications

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Can Your Natural Gas Pipelines Handle Hydrogen Blends?

HOW WE SUPPORT ENERGY CLIENTS

Partnership for the Long Term

Energy projects are under pressure to do more with less — add capacity, integrate new technologies, and satisfy regulators and communities — all while navigating extreme weather and avoiding costly failures and disputes. Exponent partners with you across the full lifecycle, from early concepts and investment decisions through operations, incidents, and decommissioning.

Our multidisciplinary teams blend decades of failure analysis with deep industry experience in oil and gas, power, renewables, utilities, and hydrogen. We bring the right mix of engineers and scientists to each challenge, helping you de‑risk designs, validate performance, respond to incidents, and protect long‑term asset value.

How We Help Clients

Asset underperformance threatens timelines, returns, and regulatory standing. Exponent conducts thorough performance assessments of energy systems — solar, wind, hydropower, hydrogen, nuclear, and oil and gas — using advanced testing and data modeling to help you identify and address reliability risks. Our multidisciplinary teams analyze components, system integration, and environmental impacts, delivering evidence-based solutions that optimize output and extend asset life, minimizing costly downtime and uncertainty.
Fires, explosions, material degradation, equipment failures, and system fragility can have catastrophic effects on energy projects. The impacts of climate change pose steep, unprecedented challenges for infrastructure resiliency.
Exponent conducts quantitative and qualitative risk analyses for generation, transmission, distribution, and energy storage systems, including oil and gas, renewables, and hydrogen. Our experts proactively evaluate external hazards, process safety, material compatibility, and system vulnerabilities, developing mitigation strategies and enabling risk-informed decision-making so you can protect your assets and people while maintaining regulatory compliance.
Poor design or site selection can derail projects before they begin. Our teams deliver feasibility studies, geotechnical assessments, design reviews, and quality control evaluations for new and existing energy infrastructure. We apply advanced modeling and scientific analysis to assess site conditions, material suitability, and construction strategies — identifying vulnerabilities early and supporting lifecycle performance and safety.
Maintaining compliance with evolving local, state, federal, and international regulations is essential for project success. Our regulatory specialists help with permitting, interpreting complex regulatory updates, and agency investigations (including EPA, OSHA, DOT, FERC, BSEE, PHMSA, and others), offering technical guidance and the latest insights. We also support you during town halls and regulatory meetings, supporting alignment with energy, safety, and environmental standards while facilitating productive community dialogue.
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Operational excellence is critical in today's competitive energy market, with stakeholders across diverse energy projects managing complex assets and supply chains. Exponent delivers engineering and scientific solutions for asset management, maintenance optimization, supply chain reliability, system hardening, and technology implementation. Our experts help clients maximize yield, address operational inefficiencies, mitigate risk, and maintain continuity by integrating data-driven decision-making that reduces the risk of failure.
Poor technology selection or unproven claims can lead to major capital losses. We provide independent technical reviews of project plans, technology assumptions, and operational readiness for investors, developers, and owner-operators. In addition, we provide high-level environmental due diligence and strategic support for siting decisions — including brownfields and waste management — as well as due diligence assistance for transactions, acquisitions, and asset or land purchases. Our due diligence includes site inspections, construction monitoring, efficiency metrics analysis, and validation of manufacturer claims — helping you make informed investment decisions and avoid costly pitfalls.
Energy operations face constant scrutiny for environmental and health impacts. Exponent offers sophisticated technical guidance for environmental compliance and permitting, assessment of pollutant fate and transport in soil, groundwater, and surface water, evaluation of ecological impacts and toxicity, environmental remediation, hazardous materials and hazardous waste management, and lifecycle analysis. Our experts guide clients through every stage of the project lifecycle, helping address regulatory requirements, manage risks, and support long-term sustainability.
When incidents occur, timely, accurate analysis is critical. Our multidisciplinary experts investigate technical and environmental causes through on‑site inspections, laboratory testing, and advanced modeling — clarifying impacts, quantifying damage, and guiding remediation and corrective actions to restore operations and reduce future risk.
Case study
How Can Petrochemical Operators Maintain the Integrity of Their Equipment?
Following a significant explosion at at U.S. petroleum refinery, Exponent performed a complex root cause analysis to identify the source of the failure and help prevent a recurrence.
Disputes over asset performance, regulatory violations, or IP infringement can stall progress and drain project resources. Exponent provides objective, science-backed expertise for pre-litigation, fact-finding, litigation testimony, and arbitration. We support technical disputes, patent analysis, contractual disagreements, and regulatory investigations, delivering clarity and precision so you can resolve issues effectively.

Data Center Development & Operations

Data Center Reliability, Delivered

Exponent's multidisciplinary approach helps you solve power and water constraints, cool high‑density loads, control schedules and costs, evaluate vendors and supply chains, meet community and regulatory demands, and protect uptime — giving you the reliability needed to compete in the AI race.

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International Dispute Resolution

Clear Answers for Complex Global Disputes

Exponent's international dispute resolution experts provide clients with everything necessary to navigate tough, intricate technical disputes in legal forums around the world. Our engineering insights are coupled with a unique ability to convey information clearly for lay audiences — and nowhere else will you find the depth and breadth of multidisciplinary expertise required to seamlessly answer questions involving complex machinery, systems, and construction projects across multiple industries.

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