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Transforming the grid for modern power delivery and distribution
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TECHNOLOGICAL & DIGITAL RAODMAPPING
Starting with an initial needs assessment and requirements definition and moving through industry benchmark comparisons, roadmap recommendations, and execution strategies.
Our experts provide tangible value in your planning and implementation.
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ADVANCED DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (ADMS)
A growing distribution utilities providers are considering the move towards ADMS that will more optimally leverage the full suite of distribution management smart technology offerings to improve system reliability and resiliency
Let us help you scan through the dozens of vendor options available by assessing your desired level of service, risk tolerance, and needs versus wants to specify the desired ADMS offering.
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DISTRIBUTION AUTOMATION
With an accelerating increase in the deployment of smart devices across the distribution network, there is a greater need for intelligent and automated controls to manage how power is delivered and to ensure reliable communication mediums.
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We provide all-encompassing solutions to modernize your power delivery services.
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NON-WIRES ALTERNATIVES
(NWA)
The increase of bi-directional power, new demand profiles, and increasing digital technologies has created a shift in how we transmit and distribute power.
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In some cases, this means moving away from traditional poles and wires offerings by incorporating non-wires alternatives into the modernization of the grid. In an increasing number of jurisdictions, regulators are requiring a comparative NWA evaluation before even considering any traditional linear infrastructure upgrades, extensions, or new deployments.
Let us help you identify NWA options that will cost-effectively maintain your system reliability while seeking to reduce your network congestion at peak demand.
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DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCE (DER) MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
As the challenges of operating an increasingly complex distribution system grow, one of the key drivers will be an increasing penetration of DERs. To monitor, control, and coordinate the impact of DERs, more utilities are adapting through the deployment of a DER management system (DERMS).
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A DERMS provides power quality, load balancing, and capacity relief services at specific locations within the grid through the aggregated manipulation of DERs, which could include electric vehicles (EVs), energy storage, distributed generation such as solar, demand response, and many other smart technologies and services that could either be privately-owned or owned by the utility.
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INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLANNING (IRP)
With increasing amounts of distributed utility scale renewable energy resources, more customer installed renewable generation, and energy storage, it is increasingly important to have a plan in place to ensure that your electricity grid remains both reliable and online.
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we are helping utilities integrate resiliency planning into their IRPs by considering priority risk mitigation activities. From load growth forecasting, generation technology development, fuel availability and prices, implementation of major generation projects, demand side management/energy efficiency programs, and integration of distributed energy resources, let us tailor a solution that is right for you and your systems.
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ASSET MANAGEMENT & OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE
Our utility asset management offerings are designed to help you optimize value from your operations.
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We provide a single source solution that integrates disparate data sources and systems with work and change management processes to align software tools and resource expectations for integrated performance.
Our offerings range from program maturity assessments and roadmaps to strengthen your framework, to implementing asset condition assessment campaigns and quantifying asset health as inputs to risk-based data-driven investment planning tools.
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ENABLING PHYSICAL & CYBERSECURITY
Ensuring that your assets, systems, and data are reliably protected is crucial to your business especially as cyberattacks become more prevalent through an increase in smart operational technology deployment.
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One breach could stifle your business processes, lead to the loss of sensitive data, or cause physical asset damage and service interruptions, which is why it is crucial to ensure that your systems are designed and configured to withstand such disruptions.
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Our experts can help you design, develop, build, and implement a security strategy that will safeguard your operations.
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ENERGY OPTIMIZATION & EFFIENCY
It's much easier and more cost-effective to design a plant for energy efficiency up-front than retrofit an existing one. We conduct energy-efficiency reviews throughout all stages of design, from concept studies to detailed engineering design. This ensures energy use is optimized immediately following commissioning. Energy efficiency can improve by 20% to 30%, depending on when in the process it's implemented.
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​When it comes to designing and implementing energy-efficient retrofits for your brownfield operations, you need a partner who will limit costly downtime, consider safety, and keep your long-term business objectives front-of-mind.