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Resolution - Approval of Construction Contract for T360 Friendship-Rutherford Storm Hardening - J Greene
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Submitted By: Jonathan Greene
Department: Chief Operations Officer - Transmission
Financial Impact and Cost/Benefit Considerations: As discussed in Executive Session and the confidential term sheet.
Discussion
As part of the 2024 Capital Improvement Plan, approved by the Board in November 2023 (2023-333), Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Inc. (PEC or Cooperative) included a project to storm harden the T360 Friendship-Rutherford transmission line. The line will be rebuilt with steel monopole structures and bundled Drake conductor. A portion of T360 Friendship-Rutherford shares a corridor with T416 Dripping Springs-Rutherford and T316 Rutherford-Buda, and therefore those circuits will also be rebuilt in that corridor as part of this project.
PEC needs this project to meet storm hardening requirements. In addition, the project will enhance PEC’s system resiliency and increase the capacity of the transmission line.
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE COOPERATIVE, that the Cooperative is authorized to execute a construction contract to complete the work required for the storm hardening of T360 Friendship-Rutherford transmission line consistent with the discussion in Executive Session and confidential term sheet; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Chief Operations Officer - Transmission, or designee, is authorized to take all such actions as needed to implement this resolution.