BBA Consultants Strengthens its U.S. Power and Renewables Presence with a New Office in Tucson, Arizona

BBA Consultants, an engineering and professional services firm specializing in energy and natural resources, has opened a new office in Tucson, Arizona. The move strengthens the firm's growing U.S. platform and brings its power and renewables expertise closer to one of the most active energy markets in the country.

The Tucson office complements BBA's existing U.S. locations in Lakewood, Colorado; Salt Lake City, Utah; Elko, Nevada; and the Greater Boston area. Together, these offices give BBA a presence across key regions where the energy transition is taking shape, from the Southwest's fast-growing solar and storage market to the Northeast's grid modernization efforts.

Closer to where energy projects take shape

BBA's U.S. growth strategy is built on proximity. The firm believes power and renewables projects succeed when engineering teams work close to client operations, where decisions about interconnection, constructability and commissioning are made.

"Tucson is a natural next step in how we're building our U.S. platform," said Benoit Richard, Vice-President, International Operations at BBA. "It's a market we know well, with strong project activity and a talented professional community. Opening an office here lets us better serve our clients on the ground, where the work happens."

The Southwest is experiencing some of the strongest electricity demand growth in North America, driven by industrial development, data centers and electrification. Meeting that demand requires integrating utility-scale solar, battery energy storage and new transmission infrastructure into grids that must remain reliable and affordable.

Engineering for a more distributed grid

BBA has spent decades working in the power sector, supporting utilities, independent power producers, developers, system operators and large industrial power users. The firm's experience spans wind, solar, battery energy storage, hydropower and pumped storage, along with grid interconnection studies, substation design, protection and controls, and commissioning.

"As more distributed resources connect to the grid, performance comes from integration, making every resource work as one system," said François Vitez, Vice-President, Power and Renewables Market at BBA. "Our teams bring system-level insight to every project, from early feasibility studies through commissioning. Being closer to clients in the U.S. means we can apply that expertise where some of the most ambitious energy projects on the continent are being built."

BBA's track record includes projects at the forefront of grid-scale storage. The Napanee BESS project, a joint venture between Atura Power and Ameresco Canada, delivers 250 MW / 1 GWh of storage capacity through more than 250 battery storage packs, and now stands as one of Ontario's landmark utility-scale storage projects. BBA served as end-to-end engineering partner, from early feasibility, environmental and permitting activities through detailed multidisciplinary engineering design, integration and commissioning. Projects at this scale demand integrated planning across civil, electrical, protection and control, automation, environmental, fire protection and grid interconnection disciplines, all aligned toward execution certainty and long-term operational reliability.

The new office will be staffed by professionals working directly in the region, close to client sites and operations, and backed by a network of more than 2,000 professionals across the Americas. As an employee-owned firm, BBA brings a long-term commitment to the markets it enters and to the clients it serves.

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