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What we do

Battery storage site civil and county permitting

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

What this covers

Your batteries have a delivery date. Your county, TxDOT and fire marshal approvals don't. Every month between the COD in your model and the real one is revenue your investors don't get, plus carry on the capital already spent and lease payments on a site that isn't running. At the ERCOT storage revenue Modo Energy tracked in early 2026, that is about $240,000 in lost revenue for every month of delay on a 100 MW site, before carry and lease costs (Modo Energy, 2026).

A signed interconnection agreement doesn't close that gap. The median ERCOT battery development timeline is now 4.4 years, up from 2.3 years in 2021, and a record 13.7 GW of ERCOT storage withdrew in the first half of 2026 (Modo Energy, ERCOT BESS buildout Q2 2026, July 2026). Nationally, 41% of the capacity that signed an interconnection agreement from 2000 to 2022 had still withdrawn by the end of 2025 (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Queued Up: 2026 Edition, 2026).

Your EPC designs your site. It doesn't get your permits. We do. Before you commit, a fixed-fee site assessment tells you what each site will take, with a low-to-high dollar range on each abnormal condition, and the fee is credited toward permitting if you go ahead. Then we get your driveway, drainage, plat, fire marshal and stormwater approvals as one scope with one fee, starting the longest clock first, usually the TxDOT driveway permit.

We commit our production times in writing. Agency review times are the agency's, and we don't promise them. An engineer answers the phone, and you get a written status every week until you're approved.

Start with a first answer

An engineer reads your note and tells you the pathway, the agencies involved and what decides cost and schedule.

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Projects

Work like this

Brazoria and Guadalupe counties, Texas

7 Texas battery storage wins

We have permitted battery storage sites for developers in Brazoria and Guadalupe counties since 2023. On our latest Texas battery site, in Guadalupe County, the fire marshal approved the submittal 17 days after we made it (October 2026). On one Brazoria County facility, we designed the site drainage and detention pond, wrote the drainage report and answered the county’s review comments. The owners are private, so these jobs have no project pages.

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Corinth, TX

Office and retail center on I-35 in Corinth, TX

Related civil experience: a TxDOT driveway approval and detention design on a built commercial site. Not a battery storage project.

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New concrete subdivision street with curb and a fire hydrant beside homes under construction and open farmland.

Ranch water system model and fire memo

Related civil experience: a water model and a fire flow memo agreed with the fire chief, at 1,500 gpm. Not a battery storage project.

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Questions

Straight answers

Our EPC handles civil. Why do we need you?

Your EPC designs and builds your site. The driveway, drainage, plat and fire marshal approvals still sit with you. We get those, next to your EPC, working from your EPC's design.

Do you do the NFPA 855 design?

No. We assemble the fire code submittal with your EPC’s NFPA 855 design, and design the access, water supply and corridor civil.

Can you guarantee the permit dates?

We commit our own production times in writing: the TxDOT driveway permit prepared and submitted in 7 business days, and the county and fire marshal packages in 2 to 3 weeks from your EPC's design. Agency review times are the agency's, and we don't promise them. Anyone who does is guessing.

How will we know where our permits stand?

An engineer answers the phone, and every week you get a written status: where each permit stands, what moved, what we are waiting on and what we need from you. If your EPC's inputs are late, you hear it that week. You can forward it to your investors as it is.

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Tell us about your project

  1. An engineer reads it

    Not a salesperson. Someone who can tell you whether the pathway is real.

  2. You get a first answer

    Your options, the agencies involved and the questions that decide cost and schedule.

  3. You decide

    No commitment to have the first call.

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