The Energy Commission, CPUC, CAISO, and LADWP recently held their workshop assessing reliability and mitigation options in the wake of the Aliso Canyon well failure and moratorium on reinjections.

Continuing our long-term project life cycle services to water and infrastructure agencies, Aspen is supporting the Banning Heights Mutual Water Company (BHMWC) and the City of Banning to obtain US Forest Service approval to upgrade and operate a historic Southern California Edison (SCE) water conveyance system.

Aspen is supporting the California Energy Commission’s (Energy Commission) Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) Program in providing funding for applied research and development, technology demonstration and deployment, and market facilitation for clean energy technologies and approaches for the benefit of ratepayers

In continuation of our long relationship with the California State Lands Commission (CSLC), during which we have provided environmental services for energy and infrastructure projects, Aspen has been awarded a new contract with CSLC.

The biologists at Aspen Environmental Group are trying to give back and make a difference by volunteering their expertise in a variety of projects both locally and internationally.

Since 2014, Aspen has been supporting the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) as part of an on-call contract to review or prepare CEQA documents for projects undertaken by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E).

Aspen’s Energy Resource Economics Group is a specialized group of experts in economics, engineering, and policy analysis that complement the traditional environmental, economic, and engineering expertise that Aspen provides to our clients.

Aspen is pleased to debut the second installment in our video collection with an overview of our Biological Resources Group, featuring the Biological Resources Group Manager, Chris Huntley.

Due to our strong energy sector experience, Aspen was recently selected to assist the California State Lands Commission to prepare the EIR for the decommissioning of the offshore cooling water intake and discharge conduits, as well as shoreline riprap and environmental monitoring buoys of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS).

Assembly Bill x1 13 (Perez, Chapter 10, Statutes of 2011-12 First Extraordinary Session) added Section 25619 to the Public Resources Code directing the California Energy Commission to provide up to seven million dollars in grants to qualified California counties.

Since October 2013, Aspen has been assisting the Ventura County Watershed Protection District (VCWPD) with the SCR-3 Project, and recently completed the Final EIR in June 2016.

This second decade of the 21st century has seen an increasingly growing industry in remotely operated vehicles, including ones that are airborne. Commonly known as “drones”, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have not only become a commercial industry tool used for various tasks but now are available to the private consumer as a recreational item.

This second decade of the 21st century has seen an increasingly growing industry in remotely operated vehicles, including ones that are airborne. Commonly known as “drones”, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have not only become a commercial industry tool used for various tasks but now are available to the private consumer as a recreational item.

Since the company’s inception, Aspen has assumed the role of prime contractor for large, publicly visible, and multidisciplinary teams. As a result, we have always considered one of our primary strengths to be project management and, in the case of on-call service contracts, program management.

2016 has been a year of celebration and reflection for Aspen Environmental Group as we celebrate 25 years of service. To honor this milestone, we’ve added some exciting features to our website.

In today’s social environment, project applicants often want to do the “right thing” to ensure that not only does their project go through the regulatory requirements as efficiently as possible, but also develop a project that is sustainable and well accepted by the general public. There are many hurdles and pitfalls in the course of taking a project from conception to completion.

Aspen is working under contract with the County of San Luis Obispo to provide the County with environmental services including the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report for the Avila Point Project. The project is proposed by Chevron Land and Development Company on a 95-acre site, a former oil tank farm in the community of Avila Beach.

We are glad to announce a development at Aspen that reinforces the principle of organic growth that we have adhered to since our inception. As we approach our 25th anniversary, we saw it fit to offer shares of the company to two more of our long-term, loyal, and exceptionally talented Aspen employees: Chris Huntley and Negar Vahidi.