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ENERGY TRANSITION

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We support our clients in making electricity accessible, sustainable and affordable for all

Businesses worldwide are at a critical turning point in energy management as climate change accelerates, and energy prices remain volatile. Companies are increasingly turning to sustainable energy sources to lower their emissions. To meet this growing demand, the power industry must scale up its operations quickly and cost-effectively, while ensuring the safety and reliability of all new and current assets.

Here at Bureau Veritas, we support businesses in all sectors with their clean and renewable energy needs. With expertise in everything from onshore and offshore wind and solar lifecycle solutions to power grid stability and renewable integration, we support our clients in sustainably designing, building, and operating their assets.

The Power and Utilities Value Chain

  • Certification

    Our services—such as component, type and project certification—support you in demonstrating compliance and ensuring your project’s viability.

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    Our services—such as component, type and project certification—support you in demonstrating compliance and ensuring your project’s viability.

  • Design & Permitting

    Our services—such as site assessment, design review and due diligence—enable you to reduce development risk.

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    Our services—such as site assessment, design review and due diligence—enable you to reduce development risk.

  • Procurement

    Our services—such as supply chain assessment, technical procurement support and manufacturing surveillance—help you to access a global, reliable supply chain.

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    Our services—such as supply chain assessment, technical procurement support and manufacturing surveillance—help you to access a global, reliable supply chain.

  • Construction

    Our services—such as project management, construction supervision, and commissioning support—contribute to ensuring your projects are run safely and to schedule.

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    Our services—such as project management, construction supervision, and commissioning support—contribute to ensuring your projects are run safely and to schedule.

  • Asset Operation

    Our services—such as periodic inspections, condition monitoring, and failure & damage analysis—help to ensure availability and reduce downtime.

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    Our services—such as periodic inspections, condition monitoring, and failure & damage analysis—help to ensure availability and reduce downtime.

  • Asset Management

    Our services—such as data management & analytics, asset integrity, and performance optimisation—help you manage asset integrity and improve operational performance.

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    Our services—such as data management & analytics, asset integrity, and performance optimisation—help you manage asset integrity and improve operational performance.

  • Late-Life Services

    Our services—such as remaining life assessment, lifetime extension, and commissioning support—support you to optimise the management of ageing assets.

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    Solar & Battery Storage

    Our services—such as remaining life assessment, lifetime extension, and commissioning support—support you to optimise the management of ageing assets.

Our experience in working with customers across the global energy supply chain (from generation, transmission and distribution) enables us to provide insights and solutions that add value and help to tackle immediate and future challenges around renewable energy development and operation.

Our approach is to tailor a multi-disciplinary team to meet your project challenges, we work for investors, regulators, public authorities, and independent energy producers, distributors and consumers. We use our extensive experience in transmission, distribution, conventional technologies, renewable energy (wind, solar, hydrogen, biomass, hydro) and battery storage.

Our daily work spans across multiple sectors and markets, and our expertise responds to major challenges ranging from the energy transition to new forms of mobility, including best business practices and the resilience of supply chains. The breadth and depth of our knowledge and services represent an undeniable competitive advantage for Bureau Veritas as a service company.

Bureau Veritas offers owners, lenders and independent engineering services to its clients. We support investors, developers, original equipment manufacturers, engineering procurement companies and, owners, operators across all stages of the asset life cycle, from site assessment & feasibility, technical due diligence, design review, permitting support, supply chain services (ESG & quality), risk & safety, construction & site management, project management accounting, non-destructive testing, digital engineering, condition monitoring & asset management, including type, component & project certification.

In Australia, we also are current leaders in Asset Reliability Management services. Key to this success is our research and development division which helps us find new solutions and technologies that improve the way our customers design, select and operate their assets. We find ways to work better, smarter, and safer to reduce downtime and improve green asset performance.

OWNER'S ENGINEERING & TECHNICAL ADVISORY

ASSET MANAGEMENT
  • Operations & Maintenance Management & Certification
  • Condition Monitoring & Assessment
  • Asset Integrity Management
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Cybersecurity Assessment
  • Remaining Life Assessment, Lifetime Extension, and Lifetime Management
  • Repowering & Decommissioning Support
DESIGN AND PERMITTING
  • Wind Resource Assessment
  • Energy Yield Analysis, Site Suitability, Micrositing, Noise Evaluation
  • Geotechnical & Geographical Assessments
  • Grid Connection Assessment
  • Design Review & Permitting Support
  • Environmental & Social Impact Assessment
  • Due Diligence & Investor / Lender Services
ASSET OPERATION
  • Periodic Inspections of Blades & Main Components (Statutory or Voluntary)
  • Non-Destructive Testing
  • Load Measurements, Vibration Monitoring
  • Thermographic & Endoscopic Inspections
  • ShafTest (Ultrasonic Shaft Inspection)
  • Oil & Grease Condition Monitoring
  • Rotor Balance Inspections
  • Training (GWO, APQP4WIND, etc.)
  • Failure & Damage Analysis
PROCUREMENT
  • Supply Chain Technical Assessment
  • Technical Procurement Support
  • Shop Inspections (QA/QC)
  • Shipping
  • Factory Acceptance Testing
  • Transport, Loading & Unloading Supervision
CONSTRUCTION
  • Project & Construction Management Support
  • On-site QA/QC
  • On-site HSE
  • Turbine Foundation Supervision
  • Commissioning & Test Run Supervision
  • Take-over & end-of-warranty Inspections
CERTIFICATION
  • Approvals in Principle
  • Prototype Certification
  • Component Certification
  • Type Certification
  • Project Certification
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