ICF (NASDAQ:ICFI), a consulting and technology services provider to government and commercial clients around the world, received three business achievement awards from Environmental Business International. ICF is recognized for work in energy infrastructure resilience, integrated resource and resilience planning, and geospatial technology.
"We are honored by the continued recognition of ICF’s work with the energy sector developing improved resilience strategies and better technology for energy infrastructure planning,” said Sudhakar Kesavan, ICF chairman and CEO. “The breadth of these three awards reflects the multiple approaches we take in order to fully address the unique and varied environmental challenges our clients face."
ICF received an award for its work to support environmental risk assessment and management for the energy sector through work for the U.S. Department of Energy and four major utilities. ICF built a framework to evaluate energy asset vulnerability to extreme weather, along with asset-by-asset and system-wide resilience strategies. ICF also developed a screening model to assess risks to hydropower facilities.
ICF also received an award for improving the Integrated Resource Planning framework, a staple of energy planning since the 1970s. ICF’s expanded framework, Integrated Resource and Resilience Planning, includes an extensive scenario-based analysis to assess more resilient resource options, taking into consideration the fluctuating cost and performance of generation technologies, fuel prices and availability, transmission links, and the effects of extreme weather and variability on hydropower. ICF also developed explicit modeling of distributed generation, demand-side management, and other demand-side resources that reflect emerging technology and market changes.
ICF was awarded the Technology Merit Award for Information for its development of Western Electricity Coordinating Council’s Environmental Data Viewer, an interactive online planning and analysis platform for transmission expansion. The Viewer enables smarter early-stage transmission planning that considers likely environmental issues, as well as opportunity areas where transmission development may be less controversial.
The 2016 awards were presented on March 22 at the Environmental Industry Summit XV in San Diego.
For More Information