We manage the major projects of the energy transition – from the idea through permitting and construction to commissioning, individually and as a portfolio.
Expanding the energy supply in Germany and Europe involves far more than building individual plants. High-voltage direct current (HVDC) links, underground cables, substations, grid connections, battery storage and wind and solar parks all have to be planned, permitted and delivered at the same time. Then there are the existing assets: repowering older wind parks and replacing inverters and modules.
Permits, supply chains, grid connections, land availability and regulatory requirements often determine project success more than the actual construction work. These projects therefore need joint control of schedule, cost, risks, documentation and interfaces.
Typical projects
The date is decided where permitting, grid connection and construction site meet.
Lines in the transmission grid are major projects lasting years. Planning approval, environmental conditions, land and lead times for cable systems determine the schedule – long before the first construction site is set up.
The critical path often lies in the grid connection and not on the construction site. Grid connection rules, unit certificates and lead times for transformers and switchgear belong in the plan as activities in their own right.
Many sites, short weather and grid windows, tightly timed crane, personnel and material logistics. Every delay multiplies across the portfolio.
Large-scale battery storage systems are built quickly – the date is usually set by the grid connection. Electrical and storage safety require consistent approval and safety processes through to commissioning.
Grid operators, authorities, designers, general contractors and suppliers have to be coordinated – over years and across many projects.
Make the same processes plannable and repeatable across many units – otherwise the control effort grows faster than the portfolio.
On the left: what operators in this industry come to us with. On the right: the service that covers it.
We are building a line, a substation or a storage facility
Project control for line, substation and storage projects – permitting, land, procurement, construction and commissioning through to grid connection.
We are developing wind and solar projects
Schedule, cost and document management for wind and solar projects – at the right scale, including across entire portfolios.
We are managing many projects in parallel
Planning and control with measured progress – standardised so that it stays repeatable across many units.
Is this schedule technically sound?
Measurable schedule quality – for your own plan as well as for those of your contractors and partners.
Leadership is missing on the construction site
Site Management & Construction Management
Leadership on the construction site: trades coordinated, quality documented, punch-list items worked off.
We are short of people for the project team
Schedulers, project controllers and construction supervisors who integrate into your project and operator teams.
* Deployed via a framework contractor of the operator, not under a direct contract.
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From the TAR-Check through scope and scheduling to leading the entire shutdown.
Go to servicesFrom feasibility through estimating and project controls to site management and overall responsibility.
Go to servicesYes. Transmission routes and substations in the transmission grid are major projects in their own right, in which planning approval, environmental requirements, land availability and lead times for cable systems and transformers determine the critical path – often over years and long before the first construction site. We carry exactly these activities in the schedule, manage the interfaces with authorities, grid operators and suppliers, and keep track of cost and documents throughout.
Yes, from the idea to commissioning. A large-scale battery storage system is built quickly; the date is usually set by the grid connection. We run permitting, delivery, installation, grid connection and commissioning in one plan and make sure the approval and safety processes for electrical and storage safety are separate activities in it.
Yes, and that is precisely the task here. It is not the individual solar park that is difficult, but twenty projects in parallel. That is why we work with standardised processes and a common progress measurement across the portfolio – one report for all projects instead of twenty separate status updates.
Because deadlines, grid connection codes and certificates are set from outside and cannot be accelerated by putting more people on site. If you treat them as a boundary condition rather than as an activity in the schedule, you find out too late that the plant is finished and still not allowed to feed in.
Yes. We plan and manage recurring inspections, component replacements and maintenance campaigns across many units in a standardised, repeatable way – so that the same campaign does not have to be planned from scratch again at the twentieth site.
Yes. We manage independently of plant, storage and component manufacturers. ep-cm is owner-managed and does not belong to any group with executing companies – our contribution is planning, control and documentation of evidence, not selling plant technology.
Terms such as HVDC and planning approval are explained in our glossary – along with 57 other terms from the shutdown and project business.
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