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Command of the critical path.

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Independent. Senior. Decisive.

The controls partner owners call when the date cannot move.

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We know where each sector hides its schedule risk.

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Do the most consequential work of your career.

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Power & Energy · New ConstructionCompleted 2024

Solar + Storage Portfolio

Four sites, one portfolio, and interconnection dates that turn days into dollars.

LocationWest Texas
ClientConfidential
LocationWest Texas
SectorPower & Energy
Value$820M
Size4 sites
DeliveryEPC
Duration26 months
StatusCompleted 2024
Why it mattered

In energy, the schedule is a financial instrument. Interconnection dates, outage windows and tax-credit deadlines turn days into millions, and every hour offline has a price.

The challenge

A renewable developer built four solar and battery storage sites in parallel.

Interconnection dates, panel deliveries and tax-credit deadlines made the schedule a financial instrument. A late site could cost more in lost credits than in construction.

Schedule at a glance

The whole program, on one line.

Start to finish, as the schedule tells it. For work still in progress, the bar moves with today's data date.

StartMay 2022
Duration26 months
HandoverJul 2024
Progress—
Plan to the hourProtect commercial datesMeasure progress objectivelyReturn to service
How we held the date

Our approach, phase by phase.

The same disciplined sequence we bring to every engagement, shaped around what this project needed most.

PHASE 01PHASE 02PHASE 03PHASE 04
PHASE 01Plan to the hour

Outages and turnarounds planned at hour level, with every craft and permit accounted for.

PHASE 02Protect commercial dates

Interconnection, tax-credit and offtake milestones held as hard dates.

PHASE 03Measure progress objectively

Quantity-based progress and earned value on every site, every period.

PHASE 04Return to service

Startup and testing sequenced to bring capacity on, or back on, by the committed date.

What changed

The difference we made

Measured the only way that matters: whether the date and the budget held.

Result 01Energized on the committed dates

All four sites reached interconnection on the dates agreed with the grid operator.

Result 02Credits secured

Every milestone tied to tax-credit qualification was met, with float to each reported weekly.

Result 03Portfolio at a glance

The owner tracked progress, earned value and forecast for all four sites on one dashboard.

Your program, under command

Make your program the next one we land.

Tell us what you are building and the date your board expects. In one senior-led review you will know what it will take to hold it.