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A reliable partner in helping de-risk projects to enable project development.

SWCA’s experts act as an extension of your team, navigating the unique challenges associated with the ever-changing landscape of solar development projects. Our project managers have experience at every step of the process, ensuring efficient and effective environmental support to meet your project goals on time and on budget.

Why Choose SWCA?

Local Teams. Global Firm.

Our local experts have full access to a global team. Our in-depth knowledge of the solar industry, land ownership, and infrastructure keeps the permitting process on track, allowing you to start building as soon as possible.

Strong Agency Relationships

We understand how agencies work and what information they need to streamline the permitting process and help you make well-informed, strategic decisions.

Sound Science. Policy Expertise

Our documents and reports are scientifically accurate, defensible, and fully compliant with all regulations.

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Visual Resources

Seeing Eye to Eye: How Visual Resources Build Consensus on Sustainable Development

We can all see the huge push for renewable energy right now: utility-scale solar developments, onshore and offshore wind farms, and the need for new generation facilities and transmission lines. All these developments have the potential to change what we see and value in the landscape, which is where visual resources expertise helps to analyze and mitigate visual impacts.

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Solar

Five Tips for Permitting Solar Energy Projects on Bureau of Land Management Land

Navigating the federal regulatory process and requirements for solar permitting on BLM land may seem daunting, but SWCA’s industry experts can help guide the way into business with the BLM. Learn more with these five tips for permitting solar projects on BLM land that can save you time and money.

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Solar

The Perks of Pollinators: How Natural Habitat is Heating Up in the Solar Industry

Have you heard about the solar industry’s pollinator push? Utility-scale solar developers are reconsidering how to best manage the ground cover for their projects—and they’re buzzing about pollinator-friendly vegetation.

“Utility-scale solar projects and native pollinator vegetation pose a unique opportunity: using nature-based solutions to add value to our clients’ long-term bottom line, the communities they operate in, and the environment,” said SWCA’s National Client Services Director of Power Generation.

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MEET THE EXPERTS

Senior Client Services Director - Generation

Amy Lord

Amy has 23 years of experience assisting clients with asset development and expansion, planning and permitting, water and air management, ecological services, resilience projects, sustainability, and carbon capture.

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Stephanie Hudgins | VP - Power & Energy
Vice President of Client Services

Stephanie Hudgins

Stephanie has led business development strategies across the energy, water, conservation banking, mining, and private development industries.

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Business Line Director

Mickey Marcus

Mickey has over three decades of experience as an environmental scientist and project manager and has worked on over 5,000 specific environmental projects. 

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Principal Wildlife Biologist

Clint King

Clint has eleven years of experience conducting environmental science studies and surveying for avian species and other wildlife in the western and southern United States.

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Strategic Growth Director

Devin Petry

Devin provides environmental project management and planning expertise, with a focus on land use planning and facility siting. He has managed numerous facility siting studies and analyses for electrical transmission and generation projects.

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Cultural Resources Director

Kim Parker

Kim is an architectural historian and historian specializing in building surveys, bridge documentation, and archival research projects. She also has experience in HABS/HAER documentation and NRHP nominations throughout the western U.S.

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Office Director

Davy Crawley

Davy has more than 20 years of experience in project management, siting, design, environmental permitting, and construction compliance for energy development projects in the southeastern U.S.

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Senior Project Manager

Drew Carson

Drew is one of SWCA’s Midwest lead project managers specializing in renewable energy projects and Endangered Species Act compliance. He is a federally permitted bat biologist with 16 seasons of field survey experience. 

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