Energy & Infrastructure Built for the Future

The world is electrifying faster than the grid was built to handle. Our Energy & Infrastructure Group partners with developers, utilities, and owners from origination through commissioning, so your project gets designed, built, and energized.

Solutions Built Around Your Goals

Energy projects are not one-size-fits-all. ARCO helps evaluate the right combination of technologies, infrastructure, and delivery strategies for the project in front of you.

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Projects We Support

  • Battery energy storage systems
  • EV infrastructure
  • Microgrids
  • Solar and distributed generation
  • Cogeneration and central utility plants
  • Energy and utility upgrades

We Help Organizations With

  • Utility interconnections with medium and high voltages
  • Substations
  • Procurement
  • Feasibility analysis
  • Site development
  • PWA and federal ITC compliance
  • Local Law 97 considerations (NYC only)
  • Site design
  • Commissioning support
  • Inspection
  • Close-out

What Sets ARCO Apart

Our team brings perspectives from development, subcontracting, construction, operations and engineering. This vast array of experience helps us ask better questions early and identify issues before they affect the project.

Our construction-led approach helps solve engineering challenges through pragmatic buildable solutions, not by designing in isolation and discovering issues later.

Local knowledge and relationships with subcontractors, municipalities, local utilities, brokers, and economic developers keep the project on budget and on schedule.

National buying power allows for faster lead-times and lower costs through competitive, national procurement.

How Energy Projects Benefit from Our Design/Build Method

Speed to power

We keep the project moving while capacity, incentives, equipment availability, and market conditions change.

Resiliency and uptime

We plan for the operational consequences of interruptions and power-quality issues.

Cost and performance

Our team evaluates energy cost, peak demand, total cost of ownership, and long-term operating requirements together.

Site and supply-chain risk

We identify environmental, utility, permitting, procurement, and equipment risks before they become schedule problems.

Portfolio growth

We’ll work with you to develop a delivery approach that can adapt as projects expand into new markets.

Single point of contact

You’re ensured accountability for the life of the project as you work with one main point of contact.

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