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May 15, 2023

ESA Builds Energy Market Team with Promotion, New Hire

ESA is pleased to welcome two new additions to our energy and industrial market team who will lead and support our growing energy market client and project portfolio. Sharon Niemczyk First, Sharon Niemczyk has been promoted to Energy Market Leader. She is responsible for driving ESA’s national growth in the energy sector, particularly for transmission […]

June 9, 2023

Offshore Wind Projects Gaining Speed on West Coast

Since the start of the year, ESA has been seeing clients, agency partners, and fellow colleagues at two major conferences focused on what should become a major source of clean, renewable energy for the nation’s western states: offshore wind power. At both the Northwest Offshore Wind Conference in Portland, Oregon, and the Pacific Offshore Wind […]

June 8, 2023

The Power of Data Management: Tracking Columbia River Basin Restoration Efforts

The Columbia River Basin once saw the largest number of salmon and steelhead than any river system in the world. But over the last century, the fish population has declined significantly as dams were built to harness hydropower energy generation for the region. Indigenous tribes have been sounding the alarm since the dams were put […]