Owner’s Engineer Services for Power Projects
We find the problems before they become change orders, outages, or damaged equipment.
Texas Registered Engineering Firm F-22020 · Veteran-owned
The owner’s independent technical voice
Sonoma Creek Consulting gives power project owners, developers, utilities, and investors an independent reviewer who has built, run, and fixed the equipment being bought. Principal James C. Gilmore brings about 35 years across gas turbine generation, high-voltage substations, battery storage, solar, and wind, on EPC projects up to $215M.
Design and constructability review
Marked-up drawing sets that catch scope gaps, vendor and EPC mismatches, load calc errors, and grounding and conduit conflicts.
Power system study review
Independent review of protection coordination, short circuit, and load-flow studies before relay settings are loaded.
Construction and commissioning
Field oversight, test witnessing, punch lists, and lessons-learned logs that protect equipment and schedule.
Proof in the field
- About 170 issues logged on a 230 kV data center substation, including station service wiring errors that could have damaged multiple pieces of equipment.
- 12 findings, 4 high severity, flagged in a military installation power study before relay settings were loaded.
- 24+ battery storage projects, 500 kW to 150 MW, and more than a dozen utility substations from 12 kV to 500 kV.
Who we serve
Data centers and large loads · Utilities, co-ops, and municipal utilities · Solar, storage, and wind developers · Industrial and petrochemical plants · Investors and lenders · Government and military installations
