Upgrading resilience for a regional electric utility company
Regional Electric Utility Company | Winnebago County, Illinois
Aging infrastructure,
trusted partnership
Having outlived their expected life cycle, this regional electric utility company identified over 100 wood poles for replacement. Due to their age (some of which were over 60 years old), increased outages were increasingly likely, especially in severe weather events. As a preferred vendor, Consertus was selected to provide project management and project controls services.
Regional Electric Utility Company
Delivery
Regulated Utilities
200,000 ft. of overhead
conductor installed
Aligning with internal teams
for a seamless approach
As a preferred vendor with over a century of combined experience with our client, our team is structured to provide the same level of project management as our client’s project execution teams.
Possessing in-depth knowledge of our client’s methodology in executing projects enabled us to oversee complex activities with tasks spread across internal client workgroups, client contractors, and external stakeholders.
Our communicative approach and ability to cultivate relationships with all project stakeholders aided in mitigating project risks that may have negatively impacted project cost and schedule.
Project Oversight Activities
- Construction
- Customer Outreach
- Engineering
- Environmental
- Landscape Restoration
- Material Management
- Matting
- Outage Coordination
- Permitting
- Project Controls
- Real Estate
- Security
- Survey
- Traffic Control
- Vegetation Management
Stakeholders
Client Groups
- Construction Management
- Engineering Standards
- Environmental
- Estimating
- External Affairs
- Legal
- Material Procurement
- Outage Coordinators
- Project Controls
- Project Management
- Real Estate
- Regional Construction
Client Contractors
- Customer Outreach
- Engineering
- Environmental
- Equipment Testing
- Landscape Restoration Matting
- Survey
- Traffic Control
- Vegetation Management
External
- Equipment Rentals
- Gas/Petroleum Facility Owners
- Material Manufacturers
- Permit Agencies
- Property Owners
Strategic, financial, and operational impact
As a result of replacing aged wood poles, the client recognized strategic,
financial, and operational benefits.
Increased resiliency of 138kV transmission circuits to severe weather events
Reduced customer impacts due to outages
Reduction in both planned and emergent maintenance costs
Mitigated risk of significant restoration events and associated cost impacts
Mitigated risk for large-scale customer outages, approximately 40,000 radial customers
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