Powering what comes next
The way we produce, store, and move energy is changing. Renewable energy, battery storage, transmission expansion, and new technologies are creating opportunities across Texas and beyond—while bringing new questions about where projects go, what resources may be affected, and how they fit within surrounding communities.
Hollaway supports utilities, energy developers, engineers, and project teams as they plan and deliver solar, wind, battery storage, electric transmission, substations, carbon capture, and other energy infrastructure.
Our environmental team helps clients evaluate sites and routes, identify environmental constraints early, conduct field studies, navigate permitting and environmental review, and maintain compliance through construction. Our communications team helps project teams work with landowners, agencies, elected officials, and communities. And our creative team makes project plans, alternatives, and technical information easier to understand.
Our Capabilities
Environmental Planning + NEPA
We help energy teams evaluate sites and routes, identify environmental considerations early, and develop clear, defensible documentation to support project development, environmental review, and decision-making.
- Site selection and environmental constraints studies
- Route and alternatives analysis
- Environmental due diligence
- NEPA documentation (Categorical Exclusions, Environmental Assessments, and Environmental Impact Statements)
- Section 106 and cultural resources coordination
- Socioeconomic and community impact analyses
- Hazardous materials initial site assessments (Phase I ESAs)
- GIS and environmental data analysis
Natural + Water Resources
Our scientists help energy teams understand existing conditions, identify sensitive resources, and navigate the state and federal environmental requirements that can influence project siting, design, permitting, and construction.
- Wetland and stream delineations
- Clean Water Act Section 404 and Section 10 permitting support
- Protected species surveys
- Migratory bird, eagle, and freshwater mussel surveys
- Habitat assessments
- Mitigation planning and coordination
- State and federal agency coordination
- Field investigations and technical documentation
Public Involvement + Stakeholder Engagement
Energy projects can affect landowners, communities, agencies, elected officials, businesses, and other stakeholders across large geographic areas. We help project teams communicate clearly, understand concerns early, and build engagement into project development.
- Public involvement, communications, and engagement strategies
- Messaging and branding development
- Stakeholder identification
- Landowner and community outreach
- Public meetings and hearings
- Virtual and hybrid engagement
- Elected official and agency briefings
- Multilingual community engagement
- Public comment
From Site Selection to Construction
Energy projects begin with a fundamental question: where does this project make sense?
For renewable energy and storage projects, early environmental due diligence can help developers understand a site before significant investments are made. Wetlands and waterways, protected species and habitat, cultural resources, land use, permitting requirements, and other constraints can influence project feasibility, layout, schedule, and cost.
Transmission infrastructure brings another set of considerations. Routes may extend for miles across private property, waterways, habitat, cultural resources, communities, and existing infrastructure—making early environmental analysis and thoughtful landowner and public engagement especially important.
Hollaway helps clients understand those issues early.
From desktop constraints analysis and environmental due diligence through field studies, permitting, stakeholder engagement, and construction compliance, our team can stay with a project as it moves from an opportunity on a map to infrastructure on the ground.
