Power System Planning

Optimizing the grid for reliability, affordability, and decarbonization.

Stakeholders face key challenges in this new environment: ensuring grid reliability amidst growing electrification and renewable generation, developing accurate forecasts for long term demand given changing load profiles, and successfully capturing the benefits of emerging technologies. The rise of distributed energy resources introduces new opportunities but also complicates forecasting and investment decisions. At the same time, transmission and distribution planning must also evolve to meet these challenges.

CEG helps clients navigate these challenges with data driven insights, stakeholder aligned solutions, and a deep understanding of utility planning methods. Our expertise in integrated resource planning and regulatory processes ensures that our clients make informed, forward looking decisions.

The Current Energy Group Approach

• Ed and Maria have each worked for over a decade in the field of power system planning.
• On behalf of their clients, they have conducted resource planning activities (e.g., technical analyses, formal comments, sponsored testimony) across dozens of states including Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachussetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. Their insights and recommendations have influenced key decisions in many of these cases.