DistribuTECH 2020: Data and engineering for the rapidly evolving power grid

As today’s power grid rapidly evolves, it has become abundantly obvious that there is both great potential and great risk inherent in the process.  Much of our future success or failure will depend on the steps we take today to think about and plan for tomorrow’s grid. At Electric Power Engineers, we believe these rapidly occurring developments will require a major re-design of our future grid, at multiple levels.  We need to identify what data we want and when we want it, how we will analyze it, and what we intend to do with the results. EPE has been a leading pioneer in the area of data and analysis for decades.  We’ve helped our utility clients and resource developers address challenges across the grid, ranging from interconnection studies, to power system planning exercises, to the evaluation of distributed assets as an optimized virtual power plant.  We know that to maintain leadership in this field, we must keep investing and pushing the frontiers to build better, modular and easy-to-use tools that will help clients identify and take action on the critical variables that matter.

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Comfort Systems USA, Inc. today announced that it has closed its previously announced transaction to acquire Summit Industrial Construction, LLC (“Summit”) headquartered in Houston, Texas. As previously disclosed, Summit is a specialty industrial mechanical contractor offering engineering, design-assist and turnkey, direct hire construction services of modular systems serving the advanced technology, power, and industrial sectors. Summit’s capabilities encompass a wide range of modular and site-based construction, including process piping, equipment setting, large pipe rack trestles, and related steel erection and specialty concrete work. Summit is a trusted supplier to some of the world’s largest advanced technology, power and industrial companies and is currently deployed on several major chip fabrication projects. Initially, Summit is expected to contribute annualized revenues of approximately $375 million to $400 million, and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization of $35 million to $40 million. In light of the amortization expense, Summit is expected to make a neutral to slightly accretive contribution to earnings per share in 2024 and 2025. Brian Lane, Comfort Systems USA’s Chief Executive Officer, commented, “We are delighted to announce the closing of our agreement to acquire Summit, an extremely capable provider of modular and other complex mechanical services. Summit brings a stellar reputation as a modular technology leader in growing end markets, including multiple ongoing and large semiconductor projects. We are happy to welcome Summit’s wonderful leadership team and excellent production and craft workers across many states, and we are confident Summit will continue to innovate and grow as a part of our network of world-class contracting companies. We are grateful that Summit has chosen to become part of Comfort Systems USA.”

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