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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
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May/June 2023
VISION
From start to finish, Davey helps utility companies with their
solar energy power generation installations' needs.
Davey's suite of services start with permit applications and
extend through construction monitoring to the care and
management of the finished landscape once a solar array is
online and generating sustainable, green power.
"Renewable energy is a huge industry," said Roy Van
Houten, Director, Energy, Wetland Studies and Solutions,
Inc., a Davey company. "It pulls in everything that we do as
a company, whether it's up-front environmental permitting,
compliance inspections, landscaping, mowing, vegetation
management or asset management. It has everything."
BOOTS ON THE GROUND
Tucker Hudgins wears out several pairs of boots each year
because he walks countless miles each day as part of his
job inspecting solar array installation construction sites.
"My focus is on permit compliance during the construction
process," Hudgins said. He is part of a team of 10 Davey
environmental compliance coordinators (ECCs) working on
ENVISIONING A BRIGHTER ENERGY FUTURE
10 active projects for Dominion Energy in Virginia and Ohio.
"We go to the site during construction and meet with the
site team, the folks who are building the actual solar panel
arrays. We help the client keep all these projects running and
in compliance. And, we are boots on the ground for Davey.
We can see opportunities where other Davey service lines
can potentially serve the client. We are always looking for
ways to get other Davey teams involved after construction."
FOCUS ON ENERGY
Whether driving a mower or running a sprayer, Clayton
Morse has done it all when it comes to keeping solar panels
free of shade and obstructions for his client Clearway Energy.
Morse and his team keep the sun shining on solar arrays
from Massachusetts to New York and New Jersey, managing
vegetation at 65 solar sites using chemical spraying
applications and 12 sites using mechanical mowing tools.
Morse, associate consultant, Davey Resource Group (DRG),
Ecological Consulting services, said the Clearway partnership
started with spot-treating invasive plant species at one solar
More than 2,000 large balled and burlapped trees and shrubs and
more than 2,800 container shrubs and perennials are being planted
to screen a solar array field in southwestern Ohio for Algonquin
Power & Utilities Corp. Planting work started in March.
