RINA North America works with its clients to develop and implement alternative and renewable energy projects.
Projects range from the siting and program management of wind farms to design of solar farms, to design of micro-grids and battery systems to provide efficient and reliable power.
Our team of civil, structural, and electrical engineers and dedicated project managers and control specialists work collaboratively with clients to integrate systems that deliver results. Our advantage is understanding the risks involved including permitting, supply-chain, schedule, financial and constructability when developing renewables from concept to operation.
Our services include fuel delivery design, substation design, structural design, and design and permitting of temporary and permanent site improvements.
Our clients include renewable developers, investor-owned utilities, and private companies.
With a focus on safety, quality and lifecycle costs, and a history of on-schedule and on-budget performance, we are proud to be a premier provider of renewable energy and sustainability solutions.
- Wind (Onshore, Offshore), Solar, BESS
- Hydrogen, CO2, RNG
- Technical Feasibility Study
- Technical Due Diligence
- Financial Analysis
- Electrical Engineering
- Structural Engineering
- Site and Civil Engineering
- Project Planning and Program Management
- Procurement Management
- Siting, Permitting and Interconnection
- Turnkey Design-Build
- Construction Management
- Energy Storage
- Geospatial Services
The Forest Preserve of DuPage County (FPDDC) commissioned our company to do a feasibility study to verify the viability of installing rooftop solar on two of their buildings at the Blackwell Forest Preserve. These buildings are referred to as the Facilities Management building and the Fleet Management building.
We performed the studies utilizing Helioscope, a commercially available software package, and we developed spreadsheets. Helioscope provided estimated production rates and allowed for the preliminary layout design. Along with this design tool, separate tools were used to help in developing the economic analysis.
We also performed a structural analysis of each building to check on the ability of the buildings to support the added load presented by the solar equipment. Based on the analyses of each building, the Facilities building would require extensive structural reinforcing in order to support the solar equipment and deemed not feasible to pursue.
The Fleet building was found capable of supporting the solar equipment. The roof area available for the solar array on the Fleet building was only capable of supplying up to 85% of the building’s electrical needs, so it was determined that the addition of carport canopies be included to provide additional roof space for solar panels.
Along with the canopies, the FPDDC asked that design include EV charging stations for the use of district owned electric vehicles.
We conducted an assessment of closed and open Waste Management (WM) landfill sites that would be eligible for solar renewable energy credits (SRECs) and the potential for solar developers to consider lease arrangements with WM.
To perform this assessment, we reviewed the available information on SRECs and similar incentives for the development of solar farms in various states. Information was gathered from internet-based research tools, as well as discussions with various solar developers.
As a result of this review, several states were identified to have significant incentives for solar developers that could meet WM's financial requirements. We then performed a brief analysis of the commercial suitability of the various landfills for solar PV development.
We are currently providing construction management and project controls services for Ameren Missouri's Atchison Renewable Energy Center project. The site has a nameplate capacity of 298 MW generated by 95 Wind Turbines.
We provide support to Ameren Missouri staff on an assortment of technical, contractual, quality, budgetary, schedule, and risk elements of the projects.
Our responsibilities include cost reporting, project schedule development, analysis of contractor schedules, project management information system technology, and weekly and monthly progress reporting.
We provide a full-time construction management team for oversight of project developers and contractors. We are developing GIS models of both projects and integrating the model with Ameren Missouri's existing asset management databases.
We are currently providing construction management and project controls services for Ameren Missouri’s High Prairie and Outlaw Wind Farm projects. The two sites have an expected capacity of 700 MW combined.
Patrick provides support to Ameren staff on technical, contractual, quality, budgetary, schedule, and risk elements of the projects.
Our responsibilities include cost reporting, project schedule development, analysis of contractor schedules, project management information system technology, and weekly and monthly progress reporting.
We provide a full-time construction management team for oversight of project developers and contractors.
We have also developed GIS models of both projects and integrating the model with Ameren’s existing asset management databases.
We are currently providing construction management and project controls services for Ameren Missouri's High Prairie Renewable Energy Center project. The site has a nameplate capacity of 400 MW generated by 175 wind turbines.
We provide support to Ameren Missouri staff on an assortment of technical, contractual, quality, budgetary, schedule, and risk elements of the projects.
Our responsibilities include cost reporting, project schedule development, analysis of contractor schedules, project management information system technology, and weekly and monthly progress reporting.
We provide a full-time construction management team for oversight of project developers and contractors. We are developing GIS models of both projects and integrating the model with Ameren Missouri's existing asset management databases.
Our company was selected to be the Engineer of Record for a 27.57MW DC/20MW AC solar facility located in Johnson Corner, Kansas. Our civil, structural, and electrical design expertise were used on this project.
The facility was built in two main arrays referred to as the East Array and the West Array. The East Array delivered 9.0 MW of power while the West Array delivered18.6 MW.
The solar PV facility incorporated 75,012 solar modules, with roughly half the quantity rated at 365W and the rest at 370W as well as 184 inverters each rated 125kW AC out.
The facility was also designed with a single axis tracking system in order to maximize energy output. The facility was planned to generate approximately 29,800,000 kWh annually (enough energy to power over 2,700 average households).
Construction started in December of 2019 and completed in May 2020.
