Transmission

Transmission has become a key strategic asset for both utilities and individual transmission owners. Never before have strategic investment, operations and compliance been so important, or so challenging.

The current transmission build out highlights the conflicting priorities of federal and state regulators and the logistical challenges of actually building billions of dollars of transmission assets. Utilities and others are building transmission infrastructure at an unprecedented rate, while their most experienced staff prepares to retire. Companies now also face the challenge of building new infrastructure in an era of constrained capital.

These challenges, coupled with the importance of ongoing operation and maintenance of existing assets, have placed transmission at the nexus of the industry’s most important challenges – ensuring the interconnection of adequate supply with load, facilitating the move to renewables, and enabling generation markets.

ScottMadden helps utilities manage these challenges through various services. We assist companies with:

• NERC compliance assessment
• Capital expansion program development and assessment
• Project feasibility studies
• Merger and acquisition integration
• Workforce planning
• Asset management
• Transmission benchmarking
• Organization and process design
• Settlements process redesign

We perform transmission projects for a variety of clients including integrated utilities, independent transmission companies, and merchant transmission developers.