Utility-Scale Solar and Storage Baseline
Three solar and storage sites, each tied to an interconnection date set by the utility.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Region
- U.S. Southwest
- Market
- Power & Renewables
- Our role
- Baseline development
- Size
- 3 sites · 600 MW
- Delivery
- EPC
- Duration
- 22 months
- Completed
- 2025
What was at stake.
The EPC schedule treated interconnection as a single milestone. In reality, the utility's substation work, protection studies and testing each had their own timeline, and any slip moved the commercial operation date.
What we did.
Beck Franklin's role: baseline development. We advise and measure; the contractor builds.
Utility work in logic
We added the utility's substation work, studies and testing to the baseline as linked activities.
Site by site
Each site had its own path to commercial operation, so one site's delay did not hide behind another.
Module and battery supply
Module and battery deliveries were tracked against installation need dates.
Monthly critical path
The owner received a monthly report on the driving path at each site.
What the team delivered.
Interconnection is not one milestone. It is the utility's schedule inside yours, and we built it in.
Energy scheduler, Beck Franklin
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Facing something like this?
Send us the schedule and the date that matters. We will tell you what is driving it and where you can still act. Repeat or similar projects qualify for our discounted Program Rate.