Theron “TC” Colbert, P.E., CxA

• C2C Business Consultant & Professional Technical Expert @ $135/hr **COMPLETED** Route 66 Battery Energy Storage System (BESS): 198MWh project 80-miles West of Albuquerque NM, co-located with existing 50MW Route 66 Solar facility. Provides energy storage capacity for PNM (Public Service Company of New Mexico). This system stores energy generated via solar power for grid delivery during peak times, smoothing renewable energy output. **ONGOING/UNDERWAY** Wilmot Energy Center II in Tucson AZ, features 100MW Solar Array paired with 400MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) for TEP (Tucson Electric Power). **2026/2027** Dry Lake East Solar (Las Vegas NV): 200MW Solar PV to be combined with 600MWh BESS. • Strategically recruited to lead specialized teams due to extensive work on behalf of NextEra Energy / Florida Power & Light (FPL) Corporation for a portfolio of renewable energy projects including wind, solar, and battery storage (BESS). • Responsible for execution of renewable energy power plant projects and teams concerning commissioning, start-up, and operational turnover. Oversaw QAQC, testing and energization of the substation. • Ensured commissioning activities performed with high quality and adherence to all NextEra Energy and FPL safety policies. • Coordinated and managed EPC contractor personnel, OEM start-up personnel, third-party start-up contractors, and operations personnel on site, relating to site commissioning and startup. • Ensured project reliability at operational turnover with minimal lost time in initial operation. • Complied with all project’s contractual documents, including Power Purchase Agreement and Large Generator Interconnect Agreement deliverables with local utilities. • Ensured proper interface with Transmission Operators and Independent Service Operators to achieve project energization dates. • Managed Client’s onsite commissioning personnel. • Interfaced daily with client's safety, engineering, and quality control personnel.

• 1099 Consultant @ $120/hr. • Strategically recruited to lead specialized teams due to extensive, broadly encompassing knowledge level and expertise field operational experience in both mechanical and electrical industrial / utility-grade systems, through the full lifecycle of Data Center design and operation —> from site planning and environmental compliance, to power systems functional testing and long-term operations, and IT assimilation and integration. • Successfully applied complex and practical skills in Data Center system sizing, code conformance, commissioning, and energy optimization, thereby optimally managing high-performance, resilient facilities, constructed on demanding schedules and rigid budgets, requiring precise timing and punctual coordination with prime contractors, general contractors, specialty subcontractors, and local, state, and federal overseeing regulatory authorities. • Oversaw implementation and thoroughly reviewed detailed and expansive mechanical and electrical designs and evaluated HVAC and electrical systems for $250M+ Vertiv Group, Vantage Corporation, and Aligned Data Centers, to include UPS, cooling, and power distribution. • Applied rigorous ASHRAE, NFPA, and IEEE standards to ensure code compliance and operational safety. • Decisively executed and carried out thorough and meticulous commissioning processes. • Incisively and perceptively identified energy-saving opportunities to improve Data Center efficiency and up-time. • Comprehensively and routinely evaluated the condition of concrete structural elements, floor slabs, and slabs-on-grade, through an extensive understanding of the science behind corrosion, the art of surface preparation, and the engineering behind post-tensioning and reinforcement, • Specified, monitored, and executed high-quality concrete repairs, via a thorough understanding of the corrosion process and standard industry practiced structural repair methods and protection methods for concrete structures.

Box Canyon AZ – 300MW Solar PV and 600MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Project ($260M+) • 1099 Consultant @ $110/hr. • Substation Commissioning and Electrical Testing: On-site to verify all commissioning and electrical testing performed in accordance with project specifications and to latest NETA testing standards, IEEE guidelines, NESC (National Electrical Safety Code) criteria, and respective manufacturer’s recommendations. • Emphasis on Safety with OSHA and NFPA 70E compliance and industry standard Lockout/Tagout procedures. • Hot-Commissioning & Energization: Verified procedures for equipment functionality for energization of 325kV substation in compliance with NERC (North American Electric Reliability Corp) national power grid interconnection requirements. • Developed Equipment Test Procedures: Detailed steps for testing Switchgear including Disconnects and Circuit Breakers, CCVT's, HV and Auxiliary Transformers, Relays, Reclosers, Capacitor Banks, Lightning Arrestors, Bus Bars, and the Ground Grid. • Completed Functional Testing, Performance Validation, System Integration Verification and Final Commissioning to confirm and ensure that all Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) Real-Time Automation Controllers (RTACs), Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs), and associated equipment were fully operational, integrated and compliant with regional utility authority Salt River Project (SRP)’s SCADA system and DNP3 – Distributed Network Communication Protocol 3.0 • Administratively documented work progress via Daily Activity Reports, Technical Progress Reports, and Submittals Preparation. • Focused on facility grounding and bonding, grounding design principles, ground potential rise, voltage gradients, and practical solutions to both complex and unique grounding challenges, via practical application of NESC/IEEE safety standards and per NEC Article 250.

Greenfield Power Plant Construction: • Electrical and Civil/Structural Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Nevada Energy $500M+ Silverhawk Peakers Capacity Expansion project featuring installation of dual GE Frame 7FA.05 Gas-Turbine 220MW Generators and 525kV Transmission Switchyard in compliance with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Orders 881 & 1000. • Transformers Engineer overseeing mobilization, unloading, assembly, mineral oil transfer, vacuum, filling and pressurization (up to 20,000+ gallons per unit), erection and testing of 18kV-to-4160V / 25MVA Unit Auxiliary Transformers (UAT) and 18kV-to-525kV / 300MVA Generator Step-Up (GSU) Transformers featuring 525kV Iso-Phase Bus Ducts with Flexible Linkage Braided Cable connections Landed to Silver-Plated Bushing Blades which were jumpered to Switchyard 75’ Dead-End Bus vertical structures. • Substation and Commissioning Engineer for expansion of 525kV Transmission Switchyard and modification of existing Substation to a Ring Bus configuration, which featured detailed assembly of three 525kV Hitachi-ABB Breakers and 18 Pole Bushings installations and repairs, coupled by standard and metering CT's, critical Nitrogen gas filling and SF6 gas breaker tank pressurization operations, and Multi-Function Protection Relays-Based Controls to include CCVT devices for metering and protection of the HV system and Line Traps for carrier frequency impedance attenuation. • Oversaw extensive construction efforts of expanded Switchyard consisting of erection of 125’ A-Frame and H-Frame Structures and stretching of a comprehensive 3-Phase High Voltage Strain Bus, lofty overhead installation of HV Cable Jumpers and Static Lines, and cautious, methodical staging and set up of Motor Operated Disconnects with meticulously calibrated Linkages integrated into GE and Pascor 525kV Switches, and detailed installation of an expansive Ground Grid matrix array composed of far-reaching 4/0 AWG Copper Wire and 3/4" by 6' Grounding Rods.

Professional Engineering Leadership and Construction Management. • Senior Commissioning Engineer for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Schneider Electric Corporation $41M Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) at VA Medical Centers in Tampa, Gainesville and Lake City, Florida. Implemented, developed and monitored the Commissioning Plan for BAS (Building Automation System) improvements, Interior Lighting Retrofits, and Steam Distribution Improvements. This ESPC project also included the installation of Energy Conservation Measures (ECM), intended to generate cost-savings and wholly efficient facilities in support of the VA’s energy conservation and sustainability goals of a 15% reduction in energy and water usage. • Civil/structural scope of work for these projects included the design, installation, assembly and placement of arrays of solar panels installed upon 12’ height carports at 14 VAMC campuses. Electrical scope of work called for the completed design and installation of fully functioning turn-key solar PV systems capable of augmenting the Microgrid operations of Distributed Energy Resources containing the 3-phase grid power supply at each site’s closest building power distribution system transformers at 208VAC and 480VAC. Final system configuration allowed for automatic operation featuring Battery Energy Storage Systems and Power Monitoring and Control Systems with Multi-Protocol Communications, including metering via LAN (Ethernet) conductivity for remote data collection to interface and display on the existing EMCS/BAS system. Engineering work completed included site reviews and physical inspections, providing task-level commissioning support to the VA in design review, construction oversight, and Interconnection of these Renewable Energy Plants with the Regional Utility’s Electric Power Grid. Project documentation reviews were conducted, along with physical site inspection, technical analysis and periodic reporting using MS Project software.

Planed, organized, controlled, integrated, and evaluated the design, construction, and commissioning of utility infrastructure projects. My goal was to be the organization's expert for project engineering design and overall project management, to safely deliver quality projects on time and on budget, and exceed the expectations of our customers and stakeholders. Primary areas of focus were Capital Improvement projects at Power Generating plants, Building Facility Upgrades, Environmental Enhancements, and continuous process improvement in the areas of project and construction contract management. Power Generation: • Senior Project Manager for $5.8M Limestone Utilization Upgrades; which will permanently reduce limestone usage and disposal costs by up to 50% when completed. Return‐on‐Investment (ROI) was 1.3 years with reduced environmental impacts for decades following. • Implemented value engineering cost proposal which enabled a $2.1M Circulating Water Piping Replacement Capital project to be rewritten in scope as a $500k O&M project. Power Transmission and Distribution / Grid Modernization: • Senior Project Manager, facilitating and coordinating project execution activities between disperse JEA Departments for $35M SAIDI Automated Switches (AS’s) and Automatic Reclosers (AR’s) implementation project, which will modernize JEA's overhead electric distribution system controlled by SCADA and EMS, by empowering Control Center Dispatchers to remotely sectionalize faulted sections of a mainline feeder disturbance, thereby quickly restoring service to the majority of customers on a disrupted circuit. Instrumentation and Controls: • Senior Project Manager for $595k Feedwater Heater (FWH) Upgrades Project, which encompassed redesign of piping and isolation valves to accommodate 15 new FWH Magnetic Level Indicators, Level Transmitters, and Coaxial Probes. Kept project on schedule, despite tight lead times for fabrication of highly customized mechanical equipment.

Served as Director of the Electrical Utility for the City of Green Cove Springs, FL. * Directed two work crews consisting of 8 electrical high-voltage linemen, which also included responsibility and management of a fleet of 18 functionally diverse “cherry pickers” or “bucket trucks” [formally known as Aerial Work Platforms (AWP) or Mobile Elevating Work Platform (MEWP)], and a vast array of insulated hand-tools and personal protective equipment (PPE), power tools, portable machinery and climbing gear, in the safe and prompt execution of hazardous and critical operational procedures for power line and power pole installation (for both timber and concrete poles) and strictly enforced safety guidelines, without one single incident, to include downed power lines and fallen power poles, caused by falling trees after torrential windstorms, and active power distribution grid transformer change outs after severe lightning strikes.

Directed planning, programming, budgeting and execution of $750M+ Military Construction and Facilities Repair program for 128 Naval Reserve Centers across the U.S., to include Puerto Rico & Guam. Resourcefully balanced fiscal requirements across a constrained budget, resulting in a $110M reduction in backlog of projects. Coordinated responses to U.S. Congressional inquires pertaining to the Navy's military construction and facilities repair budget.

Developed strategic approaches and provided strategic advice to the Command Operations Officer in coordination with the U.S. State Department in the development of construction and facilities repair projects located throughout the Caribbean in Curaçao, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Belize, Trinidad, Dominica and Jamaica; to ensure compliance with U.S. Building Code standards.