Changes and challenges are a natural part of life. This is also true for the life of an electric infrastructure construction project. It is important to plan well, but also to anticipate and have a formal process for when plans are challenged…
Every project and program manager has felt the squeeze of a sliding start date while their in- service date remains fixed. It is not a comfortable feeling, and the pressure often causes anxiety, turf battles, and conflict amongst members of the project team. In the case of the Lubbock Power & Light (LP&L) Integration into the ERCOT System, the squeezed program consisted of an estimated $364 million transmission buildout.1 Regulatory discussions took longer than originally anticipated, but…
