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System Planning & Studies

We model your system
before you commit to it.

Most systems get built one urgent project at a time, and every one of those projects is defensible on its own. What you have after a decade is a system nobody planned, where the constraint is never quite where you would expect. Load flow, short circuit, voltage drop and protection coordination across the whole system is how you find out what is actually limiting you, instead of replacing whatever failed last. We build it on your real growth rather than a straight line drawn through last year, then turn the results into a construction work plan you can budget against year by year.

You get a year-by-year build plan you can budget against, and it holds up in front of a board as well as in front of your own crew.
Choosing an approach

What are you sizing the system for?

Build to Today's Load

Size for current demand. Cheapest now, but the cost returns later as a retrofit or rebuild, usually when it's far more disruptive.

Only right if growth here really is flat across the system's service life.
Peer Benchmarking

Size to what neighboring utilities built. A reasonable sanity check, but their growth and constraints aren't necessarily yours.

Useful as a sanity check on an internal study. Not a substitute for one.
Formal System Planning Studies

Load flow and fault studies model your system's growth and constraints over the real planning horizon, not just this budget cycle.

Worth it when the decision is expensive or permanent enough that being wrong is hard to undo.
How we help

Turning system studies into a construction plan.

The studies are how you get there. The construction work plan is what you actually take to a board.

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Load Flow & Fault Studies Load flow under real and projected demand, short circuit duty at every bus, and voltage drop along the feeders. This is where you find out the constraint is a regulator setting three miles back rather than the conductor you were about to replace.
02
Construction Work Plans A year-by-year sequence for what gets built when, priced and ordered against load growth. Written so it survives a change of staff and holds up to a rate review.
03
Arc Flash & Protection Coordination Linkage Change the fault current and you change the arc flash numbers and the coordination downstream. Those get updated together here, rather than becoming somebody's surprise two years later.
04
Capital Planning Aligned to the Real Horizon Capital tied to a horizon that matches how long the infrastructure actually lasts, which is decades, not the three years your budget cycle can see.
Engineering Review

Tell us where your system is tight and what growth you are seeing.

We review what you send and follow up about which study answers that question first, and which ones can wait.

Request an Engineering Review →

You speak directly with an engineer about your situation and the next step.

  1. 1You send what you have
  2. 2An engineer looks at where you're tight
  3. 3We tell you which study answers it first
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