What We Do
ESEP In The Field
Energy Storage Engagement Partners seamlessly works with developers to understand the local landscape, engage and educate the community and successfully permit battery storage projects.
Emotion, distrust and misinformation derail honest conversations about storage projects’ benefits and drawbacks, putting heat on public servants. Cutting through that noise demands experience, credibility and proactive engagement.
ESEP helps developers understand on-the-ground issues, expand their local presence and deliver the education and engagement that community acceptance requires.
We serve as the critical separator between constructive understanding and negative misinformation, helping communities navigate facts with confidence. By grounding conversations in clarity and credibility, we help turn uncertainty into informed support.
Our national team has partnered with leading legal counsel, fire safety experts and experienced pollsters to guide conversations around storage development, manufacturing, permitting and policy across the country.
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Community Assessments
ESEP’s Community Assessment Reports identify communities that are challenging, neutral or friendly to BESS development, empowering your greenfield development team.
Successful energy storage projects start with a clear understanding of the community. Before engagement begins, we conduct thorough community assessments to identify key stakeholders, community concerns, opportunities for impact and trusted voices.
Our approach combines research, listening, and local insights from our national network of community engagement specialists to help project teams understand how energy storage perceptions and how to engage in a way that is informed, respectful and effective.
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Community Engagement
Geared towards a successful project permit, we create Community Engagement Strategic Plans to ensure projects win supporters, overcome misinformation and broadcast their immediate and long-term benefits to the host community.
By combining deep community insights with thoughtful engagement strategies, we align project benefits with stakeholder values to foster trust, shaping projects that are informed, inclusive and win-win for both developers and host communities.
Through real community insights – not assumptions – we help developers and public leaders anticipate questions, address concerns early and build engagement and education efforts that resonate.
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Project Monitoring
During a project’s path to permitting, we conduct Project Monitoring on a regular basis to track project progress, opposition, supporters and relevant state and local policies.
When decisions are local levels, often just one or two strong personalities can affect a project’s success. Project Monitoring proactively addresses misinformation and opposition, keeping development teams informed and nimble.
Through our national network of community engagement specialists, as well as our in-house team of social media experts, we can provide real-time monitoring of emerging and developing situations relevant to any greenfield developer.
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Comms Toolkits
From Greenfield Development to Project Hearings, ESEP can create a suite of custom strategic communication tools to support your project.
We help energy storage developers, policymakers, and partners communicate with purpose and precision. Our communication tools empower your development team to speak directly to audiences, build trust and credibility and ground conversations in facts and local concerns. Do not get mired in misinformation and fear, move from uncertainty to informed understanding and informed support.
Toolkits may include:
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Press releases
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Project websites
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Audience personas
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Custom messaging
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Radio and newspaper advertising
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Social media content and curation
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Executive coaching and public speaking
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Print materials including factsheets and presentation boards
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Educational Events
From location scouting, event coordination to even acting as additional staff to educate and connect, ESEP empowers your team to connect, educate and build project support.
ESEP has decades of experience planning and executing live events both small and large. Nothing builds trust and understanding compared to open houses that connect your project team with the local community.
Featured Projects
Some of our recent BESS work
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Jake BESS - Joliet, IL
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Elwood BESS - West Chicago, IL
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Byrd Ranch BESS - Sweeny, TX
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