Cutlass Solar Project
Bechtel says it has accomplished the 140 MW DC Cutlass Solar undertaking, situated in Fort Bend, Texas, and added the outpout to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’ Houston Zone.
“Bechtel is supporting America’s energy transition by providing development capital for critical projects like Cutlass, and by building our own specialty solar construction equipment fleet and developing and deploying a digital execution platform for our renewable customers,” says Kelley Brown, EPC Operations supervisor, North America Core Renewables, Bechtel Infrastructure. “We are committed to doing our part to help promote a decarbonized environment for future generations.”
Bechtel partnered with Advanced Power within the growth of Cutlass Solar by Bechtel Enterprises, the corporate’s undertaking growth and financing arm.
“This is an important milestone in the long-standing partnership between Advanced Power and Bechtel,” states Matt Strangfeld, managing director at Bechtel Enterprises. “Bechtel is committed to efficiently creating new, high-quality clean energy projects through our integrated project development and construction approach.”
At the height of development, Bechtel parented with native contractors, and crammed greater than 300 jobs with employees from the realm. Bechtel carried out the engineering, procurement and development, and supplied full turnkey providers together with the procurement and supply of almost 345,000 solar panels – efficiently navigating transport and logistics constraints and the U.S. import necessities in report time. Together with Advanced Power, the proprietor of the undertaking, Bechtel developed revolutionary contracting options to advance the undertaking and decrease completion delays.
“We are proud to continue our role as global developer, manager, and owner of renewable and low-carbon energy infrastructure in partnership with Bechtel as our EPC,” feedback John Coleman, Advanced Power’s director of development. “Cutlass is the fourth clean power project successfully delivered together that is displacing CO2 emissions around the globe.”
Bechtel is presently engaged on over 2 GW of solar and wind power tasks in numerous phases of growth and development all through the United States. Applying its undertaking growth capabilities and EPC expertise and experience, Bechtel has capability to take part in revolutionary clear energy and renewables tasks from the event stage by commissioning and handover to make sure schedule certainty, native content material, programs integration, and sustainability. Cutlass Solar is the fourth undertaking Bechtel has delivered for Advanced Power.
