Areas of Our Expertise
Advocacy
Advocating for the client in policy, legislation, regulation, or program development engagements
- Transmission development policy
- Energy only or capacity market
- Renewable energy program
- Self-supply and export
- Economic development rate
- Inter-provincial trade and co-optimization
Need Assessment
Assessing the need for capital investments, or operating and maintenance expenses
- Generation
- Environmental
- Transmission
- Distribution
- Retail
- Metering, billing, and settlement
Permit and License
Evaluating if detailed design of facility, program, or service meets all regulatory requirements
- Power plant application
- Transmission facility application
- Industrial system designation application
- Emission control facility application
- Power purchase agreement
- Demand side management program
Cost of Service Study
Translating utility’s total revenue requirement into cost of providing various services
- Detailed cost and asset information
- Functionalization
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Sub-functionalization
Voltage
Economics
Flow
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Classification
Minimum system
Average and excess
Zero intercept
Rate Design
Converting cost recovery into economically efficient, effective, and practical price signals
- Services
- Customer load and generation profiles
- Rate classes
- Cost allocation
- Rate design
- Import, export, opportunity, and retention rates
- Calculators, estimates, and projections
Connection
Getting the Customer connected and energized as economically and expeditiously as possible
- Preferred connection
- System access request
- Connection plan
- Connection proposal
- Service contract
- Engineering assessment
- Contribution i.e. upfront lump sum payment calculation
Business Case
Supporting projects from inception to retirement with focus on maximizing value creation at each stage
- Market research
- Need analysis
- Options develoment
- Scenario analysis
- Evaluation on risk adjusted basis
- Detailed design and recommendation
- Implementation and operational plan
- Performance measurement and continuous improvement
Models and Forecasts
Modeling financial, market, project, and regulatory parameters to create forecasts and projections
- Transmission rate projection
- Total electricity bill estimator
- Generator performance assessment
- Rate and rider calculation
- Deferral account reconciliation
- Bill impact analysis
- Transmission cost index
- Cost and revenue forecast
Planning
Strategic and tactical planning in todays’ complex, fast paced, and dynamic environment
- Integrated resource plan
- Environmental compliance plan
- Demand side management programs
- Portfolio development
- Short-term or operational
- Long-term
- Triggers and action plan
Rules or Standards
Creating market, tariff, and settlement operational rules, and planning, reliability, and environmental standards
- NOx, SOx, PM and mercury standards
- Reserve margin
- Control performance standards
- Program evaluation, measurement and verification
- Generator performance assessment
- Load profiling
- Generator mothball
Operations and Compliance
Optimizing operations while maintaining compliance with all applicable requirements
- Peak demand waiver
- Duplication avoidance tariff
- Opportunity rate qualification
- Ratchet waiver for energy efficiency investment
- Connection contribution determination
- Payment in lieu of notice waiver for constrained location
- Supply related cost
- Generating unit owner contribution determination
- Approval for non-typical operation
Analysis
On-demand detailed analysis, visualization, and reporting for a variety of business needs
- Individual and fleet emission rates for scenarios
- Energy production cost versus market price
- Emission reduction cost versus market price of allowance
- Operating reserve cost to pool price correlation
- Decision driver for each transmission project
- Bill impact analysis by customer
- Network line flow to load correlation
Training, facilitation, and arbitration
Through expertise, passion, independence, and objectivity.
- Electricity industry 101
- Rate design 101 and 201
- Planning process 101
- Connection process 101
- Leading working groups
- On-demand training
- Arbitration