HR Wallingford provides the global power industry with a range of specialist planning, design and engineering services. We help our clients to understand and manage water-based risks at every stage of a project's life cycle.
From site selection and environmental assessment, through engineering and construction to operations, we have the technology, expertise and experience to deliver appropriate and effective solutions for the planning, design, construction and eventual decommissioning of power generation assets.
We deliver appropriate and effective solutions for major thermal power, desalination, nuclear power and marine renewable energy (offshore wind farm, wave and tidal) projects.
Supporting thermal and nuclear power developments
We offer specialist support services for:
- cooling water system design
- thermal plume dispersion
- flood risk management, including site protection from inundation
- extreme water levels, including cyclones and tsunami risk
- numerical models of engineering hydraulics
- physical model testing of pumping stations and marine structures
- environmental impact assessment (EIA).
Specialist nuclear power services
HR Wallingford can address the challenges related to the nuclear industry’s exceptionally high standards for safety and risk management:
- reliability and fail-safe behaviour of critical systems (including cooling water systems)
- site integrity
- design for extremely unlikely or long return-period events
- response to long-term climate change and sea level change
- decommissioning issues.
Marine renewable energy
We help optimise investment return and minimise the environmental impacts of marine renewable energy projects. Our clients include owners, operators, contractors and consultants, as well as regulators and other national organisations. We inform and support every phase of the development cycle:
- concept development and design
- construction
- site selection
- operation and maintenance
- environmental impact assessment (EIA)
- monitoring
- detailed design
- decommissioning.
