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Smart Engagements. Strong Communities.
Successful BESS Projects.

Energy Storage Engagement Partners turns community engagement into project momentum. We advance projects through trust, transparency, and collaboration.

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Our Mission

We are dedicated to supporting the next generation of battery energy storage systems to revive America's aging electric grid and increase energy reliability nationally.

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Our Products

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Community Assesments

ESEP’s Community Assessment Reports identify communities that are challenging, neutral or friendly to BESS development, empowering your greenfield development team.

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Community Engagement

Our Community Engagement Strategic Plans ensure projects win supporters, overcome misinformation and broadcast their immediate and long-term benefits to the host community.

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Project Monitoring

Project Monitoring tracks project progress, opposition, supporters and relevant state and local policies.

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Strategic Comms Tools

From greenfield development to project hearings, ESEP can create a suite of custom strategic communication tools to support your project. 

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Educational Events

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.

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“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.”
― Roy T. Bennett

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Featured Projects

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Bess Project

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Bess Project

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Bess Project

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Bess Project

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Press

ESEP - From the Field
Feb 2026

How Opposition Grows in Private Facebook Groups

ESEP - From the Field
Feb 2026

Don't Let Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ) Get in the Way

ESEP - From the Field
Jan 2026

Navigating A BESS Moratorium

ESEP - From the Field
Dec 2025

Aileron Helps Pass Illinois' Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act (CRGA)

ESEP - From the Field
Dec 2025

Landowner Letters Are Trending For All the Wrong Reasons

ESEP - From the Field
Dec 2025

AM/FM Radio Resonates in Rural Communities

Crain's Chicago Business
Jan 2026

Opinion: Illinois just stepped up for clean, affordable energy — and economic prosperity

RE+ Midwest
Dec 2026

Video: VP David Jakubiak on BESS Development & Permitting Challenges

Wall Street Journal
Sep 2023

Giant Batteries Helped the U.S. Power Grid Eke Through Summer

RE+ Midwest
Dec 2025

Moss Landing Responds: No Fire-related Contamination Present

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Contact Us

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