

Customer
Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Inc.
Location
Texas
Project Value
Estimated $100,000
Delivering Redundant Underground Distribution Design for the Freedom at Anthem Subdivision
The Challenge
- Missing easements needed to complete a reliable loop design.
- Complex routing through surrounding neighborhoods, narrow easements, and vegetated areas.
- Varying infrastructure timelines, including water facility lift stations and long-lead protective equipment.
- The need for continuous equipment access for bucket trucks, even across private property.
The Solution
- Easement Research & Acquisition: Verified existing easements and worked with surrounding landowners—including Mountain City—to acquire new ones.
- Minimal Footprint, Maximum Compliance: Designed the underground backfeed to meet construction and safety standards while minimizing environmental and property impact.
- Access-Focused Design: Collaborated with landowners to install access gates across divided fields, ensuring future maintainability of PEC’s facilities.
- Sectionalized Power Design: Due to equipment procurement delays, LTSI split the subdivision into sections to energize key infrastructure first and allow early construction and home sales.
- Looped System Planning: Incorporated protective and redundant pathways in the power system to meet PEC’s standards, even when this required custom metes and bounds easements beyond the developer’s original scope.
Key Benefits
The Results
- Approved Design: Delivered a fully looped, backfeed-supported layout that passed PEC’s approval criteria.
- Faster Equipment Procurement: Provided initial designs quickly so PEC could order protective gear in time for construction.
- Sectionalized Project Phasing: Enabled phased energization, allowing development and sales to begin while other sections were still being finalized.
- Easement & Access Resolution: Ensured legal access and physical bucket truck entry points through complex property divisions.
- On-Time, On-Budget Completion: Met project goals and deadlines without overruns.