Stuart Nelson Email & Phone Number

United States

Austin, Texas Area

LCRA’s Senior Vice President of Transmission Business Development oversees the development and expansion of LCRA Transmission Services Corporation’s (LCRA TSC) electric transmission and telecommunication systems. Establishes and maintains long term relationships with utility partners along with providing services to other utilities and public entities..

Austin, Texas Area

Oversaw LCRA’s project management and construction management along with transmission engineering, land surveying and geographic information systems groups. The annual capital project budget managed exceeded $360 Million and included projects that constructed parks, electric transmission lines, a combine cycle gas power plant and a 40,000 acre-foot.

Austin, Texas Area

Directed a staff of over 600 employees that were responsible for the planning, engineering, construction, operation, maintenance, safety and reliability of over 5,000 miles of electric transmission line and 300 electrical substations located in 54 counties across Texas. Oversaw the operations of LCRA’s radio and telecommunication networks.

Austin, Texas Area

Managed LCRA TSC’s transmission construction projects that built over one thousand miles of electric transmission line. Developed innovative techniques to acquire land rights under compressed project schedules while holding the number of tracts acquired through the use of imminent domain to less than seven percent. Managed the formation of LCRA TSC which.

Austin, Texas Area

Managed LCRA’s Transmission Planning, System Protection and Project Management groups, along with providing engineering support for LCRA’s System Operations and Control Center. Selected by peers to serves as Chair of ERCOT's Engineering Subcommittee and ERCOT’s Planning Assessment and Review Task Force. Represented LCRA as a member of the National Rural.

Austin, Texas Area

Planned the additions to the transmission system of LCRA and its Wholesale customers, the creation of the transmission capital plans, operational load flow studies, wheeling analysis, wheeling contract administration, and customer & substation load forecasting. Represented LCRA on the Technical Advisory Committee of the South Texas Interconnect System, the.

Corpus Christi, Texas Area

Served in various capacities including Supervisor of System Engineering, Supervisor of Operational Studies and Transmission Planning Engineer. Performed generation production cost evaluations (PROMOD), fuel and energy forecasts, project cost evaluations, budget preparation, wheeling contract negotiation, system reliability studies and regulatory work..

Abilene, Texas Area

Responsible for substation grounding, capacitor fusing and switching, insulation coordination, fault calculations, power factor correction, equipment specifications, substation design and drawings, switching orders, load flow studies and wheeling calculations.