Eight years of horizontal directional drilling for utility-scale solar. The bores that carried collection, fiber, and gen-tie under the obstacles that would have held up COD.
What has RMDT delivered? Over eight years we have bored more than 500,000 feet underground and put more than 100 bores in the ground on schedule across 12 utility-scale solar fields. The work spans collection and interconnection on solar sites plus road, rail, river, and wetland crossings. We hold client and project specifics in confidence and share verified references on request.
We describe our portfolio by crossing type and scope rather than by owner. Project names, footage on specific jobs, and references are verified and provided on request.
The bulk of our footage lives on solar sites. We bore 34.5kV medium-voltage collection under access roads, drainage, and array boundaries so trenching never fragments a block, then carry the duct banks, conduit, and fiber/SCADA paths the field depends on. On the interconnection side we drill the gen-tie bores into the point of interconnection, substation, and switchyard, the crossings that sit squarely on the critical path to energization.
Public and private road crossings, highway right-of-way, and rail crossings where trenchless installation is the answer and open-cut is not an option. These bores keep traffic and rail service uninterrupted and keep the project clear of the permitting and restoration exposure that an open trench would create.
Water and sensitive-ground crossings drilled to a written inadvertent-return plan: geotech read up front, an engineered drilling-fluid program, active monitoring, containment staged on site, and a contingency response committed in writing before the rig turns. This is where frac-out risk is highest and where a clean damage-prevention record matters most.
Before and alongside the bore we pothole and daylight existing utilities with vacuum excavation, confirming depth and alignment of the lines we cross after one-call locates are in. Accurate subsurface utility engineering is what keeps a 500,000-foot record free of strikes.
A closer look at one bore from the portfolio, with the conditions, approach, and outcome documented end to end.
A Central New York directional bore delivered through tight access and sensitive ground, drilled to plan and proofed clean. The full write-up walks the conditions, the bore path, and the result.
Read the case study →Have a profile, a road or water crossing, or a gen-tie path you need de-risked? Send the alignment and constraints and we will come back with an approach and a schedule you can hold.
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Our crossings are planned and executed to the trenchless practices and damage-prevention rules the industry relies on. Useful references:
Send the alignment, the soils, and the COD date. We will come back with an approach, a frac-out plan, and a schedule you can hold the field to.
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