Executive Briefing

Your batteries will arrive. Will your permits?

Your EPC designs your site. It doesn't get your permits. We do, on a date you can give your investors. This briefing follows one question from the first...

· For battery storage developers

Executive summary

Your EPC designs your site. It doesn't get your permits. We do, on a date you can give your investors.

This briefing follows one question from the first page to the last: will your site be permitted by the day your batteries arrive? For most Texas battery storage sites, the answer is decided long before anyone files a drawing. It is decided by who owns the permits, and when each one starts.

Your interconnection agreement, your COD and your equipment delivery all have dates. Your county, TxDOT and fire marshal approvals don't. When those approvals start late, your operation date moves right while your batteries wait. On a 100 MW site, every month of delay costs $240,000 in lost revenue [4].

The pattern behind the slip is simple. Your EPC's fixed price leaves out the driveway, drainage, plat and fire water. The permits stay on your desk, and the longest clocks start last.

We get your permits. You keep your date.

  1. Know your cost: a sealed site assessment with a dollar range on every risk.
  2. Get your permits: driveway, drainage, plat, fire marshal and stormwater.
  3. Know where it stands: a written status every week until you're approved.

The briefing closes with three questions to answer this week, a list of the site data to send us, and one next step.

What the decision checklist covers

  • For your next site
  • Your permits. Your date
  • What to send us before the call

The full briefing has the evidence with its sources, what MES has seen on projects like yours and the whole checklist. It is free: ask for it below and we email you a download link.

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