CRA has been supporting NIPSCO, an Indiana utility owned by NiSource, with integrated resource planning since 2017. Today, CRA is leading the development of NIPSCO’s 2021 integrated resource plan. In the 2018 IRP, CRA led NIPSCO to a difficult decision to announce retirement of its entire coal portfolio and replacement with a portfolio of renewables and storage that provided a much better fit for the company’s objectives.
Data center growth: implications for the power and utilities sector
This unprecedented demand for power requires new approaches from utilities and system planners around load forecasting, resource planning, load queue design,...