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POWER GENERATION EXPERIENCE

Experience Built in the Field

More than 30 years of construction, commissioning, project delivery, equipment strategy, schedule recovery, and owner-side power-generation leadership.

The value of experience is whether it improves the next decision.

30+ Years

Power-generation experience

190

Gas turbine units built & commissioned

$65M-$500M+

Project scale

75-250+

Personnel led on major projects

30 & 45 Days

COD schedule pull-ins

International

United States, Mexico, Canada, South America, Russia, Europe, India, Middle East and Australia

Built and Commissioned: 190 Gas Turbine Units

Robert Mackenroth’s experience spans major aeroderivative and industrial-frame platforms, with responsibility across construction, commissioning, startup, project leadership, and execution.

14

LM2500s

115

LM6000s

20

LMS100s

21

Frame 5s

14

Frame 6s

6

Frame 7s

Additional Technology & Balance-of-Plant Experience

  • Siemens and Solar turbine platforms
  • RICE / reciprocating-engine generation
  • Generator step-up transformers
  • SCR and emissions systems
  • Switchgear and electrical balance of plant
  • Controls and plant integration
  • Demineralized-water systems
  • Interconnection equipment
  • Gas and fuel systems
  • BESS integration
  • Commissioning interface
  • Commissioning interfaces

The fleet count matters because every unit eventually becomes a field execution problem to solve.

MaCon positions experience as evidence, not decoration.

Arizona Electric Power Cooperative - Apache Generating Station

Two LM6000 Peaker Units | Arizona

Robert Mackenroth managed construction of two LM6000
peaker units at Apache Generating Station, with
responsibilities extending through EPC execution, contractor
coordination, construction, commissioning, startup, and
commercial operation.

That work provides MaCon with direct insight into the owner’s challenges when a generation plan becomes a live construction and commissioning program.
  • LM6000 generation
  • EPC execution oversight
  • Contractor coordination
  • Commissioning and startup
  • Turnover and commercial operation

Someone needs to sit on the owner's side of the table.

Experience is most valuable when it protects the owner before a problem becomes expensive

Project Delivery in Demanding Environments

MaCon experience includes power-generation assignments from early execution planning through construction, startup, performance testing, turnover, and commercial operation. The common thread is accountability for work that must be completed in the field.
  • Project execution planning
  • Engineering and procurement coordination
  • Construction management
  • Major subcontractor coordination
  • Project controls and reporting
  • Schedule management
  • Cost-to-complete awareness
  • QA/QC coordination
  • Owner-contractor interface management
  • Risk and issue resolution
  • Mechanical completion
  • System turnove
  • Commissioning planning
  • Startup and performance testing
  • Punch-list closure
  • Final acceptance and closeout

Project Scale & Leadership

Representative project experience ranges from approximately $65 million to more than $500 million, with leadership of teams ranging from roughly 75 to more than 250 personnel.

Schedule Recovery Requires Field Decisions

Not every project follows the original schedule. Recovery becomes possible only when the team identifies the real constraints, assigns ownership, resequences work, removes interface conflicts, and makes decisions quickly enough to change the outcome.

30 Days

COD pulled forward on one project

45 Days

COD pulled forward on another project

Closure

Focus on constraints, ownership & execution

What Recovery Leadership Looks Like

  • Identify the actual critical constraints
  • Separate schedule logic from field reality
  • Assign accountable owners to open issues
  • Prioritize work that changes the critical path
  • Resolve contractor and OEM interfaces
  • Escalate decisions before they become delays
  • Track mechanical completion and turnover aggressively
  • Align commissioning sequence with construction readiness
  • Document changes and commitments
  • Drive open items to closure

A schedule is only credible if the work, interfaces, decisions, and resources behind it are credible.

Commissioning Experience

Commissioning is where engineering, procurement, construction, controls, equipment performance, and owner requirements finally meet. MaCon’s experience includes the field leadership required to move systems from mechanical completion to reliable commercial operation.
  • Commissioning planning
  • Mechanical completion trackin
  • System turnover strategy
  • Pre-commissioning
  • Startup sequencing
  • OEM coordination
  • Controls integration
  • Electrical-system coordination
  • Performance testing
  • Reliability runs
  • Documentation turnove
  • Documentation turnover
  • COD readiness
  • Final acceptance and warranty implementation

FIELD REALITY

Problems that reach commissioning are usually expensive.

Experienced planning and field leadership reduce surprises during the phase when the project has the least schedule room remaining

Experience That Changes the Quality of the Decision

Thirty years of experience only matters if it changes the quality of the next decision. MaCon applies lessons from project execution to generation strategy, equipment evaluation,procurement, project risk, capital planning, and owner-side governance.
  • Generation-resource strategy
  • Procurement decisions
  • Project execution planning
  • Technical-commercial evaluation •
  • Technical-commercial evaluation
  • Risk assessmen
  • Capital and major-maintenance planning
  • Owner-side project oversight
  • Resource planning and committee advisory support
  • Executive recommendations
  • Board-level decision support
  • Independent second opinions before capital commitment

Issues Experience Helps Find Early

  • Undefined scope
  • Unverified assumptions
  • Missing interfaces
  • Warranty language that shifts ris
  • Equipment that does not fit the site
  • Warranty language that shifts risk
  • Commissioning requirements omitted from planning
  • Change orders that are not documented
  • Risks everyone sees but nobody owns
  • Commercial terms that do not match the execution plan

Power Generation Career Foundation

Robert Mackenroth’s career has included power-generation leadership and execution roles with:
  • Sunland Construction
  • PROENERGY
  • GE FieldCore
  • GE Granite
  • BTEC Turbines
Assignments have included work across the United States, Mexico, Canada, Argentina, India, Russia, Australia, Papa New Guinea, Panama, Nigeria, Egypt, and Iraq.
United States Military Veteran

Define. Evaluate. Establish. Drive Closure

01

Define the Issue

02

Evaluate the Options

03

Establish the Path Forward

04

Drive Closure

PUT EXPERIENCE ON YOUR SIDE OF THE TABL

Before You Commit Capital, Get the Execution Question Answered.

If you are preparing to build, buy, commission, recover, or evaluate a power-generation project, MaCon can help define the issue,
evaluate the options, establish the path forward, and drive closure

DISCUSS YOUR PROJECT | 281-221-0452 | robert@mackenrothconsultancy.com

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