Ask the Expert: How Utilities Are Designing Around Supply Chain Bottlenecks

As electricity demand rises and the energy transition advances, utilities are navigating a massive wave of infrastructure investment to ensure electric grid resilience and reliability into the future.

Unfortunately, grid modernization strategies are increasingly getting hung up on utility supply chain bottlenecks that challenge the timelines required to complete critical transmission and distribution upgrades. Justin Schaffer and Cory Henderson, from the Transmission & Distribution Group at Burns & McDonnell, argue that infrastructure project planning is now more important than ever as a tool to navigate bottlenecks and keep grid projects on time and on budget.

In this Ask the Expert, they share the trends driving today's supply chain challenges, strategies to navigate bottlenecks and risks to avoid when working around grid infrastructure challenges. Read it to learn:

• The main supply chain bottlenecks hampering efforts to upgrade the electric grid and the risks utilities take by waiting out bottlenecks
• How utilities can redesign grid upgrades to work around supply chain issues and how to dodge cost and effectiveness pitfalls that could occur when designing around bottlenecks
• How partners can help utilities advance their grid infrastructure projects in the current environment, including examples of Burns & McDonnell grid solutions