Grid under pressure: Flexibility-centered large load policies overlook recent lessons
Indicators of change Order 2222 revealed a gap between flexibility theory and planning and implementation practice – creating lessons that now resonate for...
CRA’s Distribution System Planning and Modernization experts support utilities in modernizing and optimizing their distribution systems to meet growing customer demands, integrate new technologies, and enhance reliability and resilience. Our team combines technical, economic, and regulatory expertise to help utilities develop data-driven, forward-looking distribution plans that align with operational realities, emerging risks, and stakeholder expectations.
We assist utilities in evaluating hosting capacity, reliability performance, DER integration, electrification impacts, wildfire exposure, and investment prioritization across their distribution networks. CRA’s work ensures that system upgrades, mitigation strategies, and modernization efforts are analytically justified, cost-effective, and defensible in regulatory proceedings.
Through these services, CRA helps utilities strengthen reliability, reduce wildfire and climate-driven risks, enhance customer and community resilience, and position distribution systems for the future grid.
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Engagements
- 01Electric utility growth strategyA mid-sized utility company was facing a set of critical strategic questions around finding long-term growth for the core electric utility businesses. The...View engagement
- 02Development of Grid Modernization Plan for Liberty UtilitiesCRA has worked with Liberty Utilities, an 800,000 customer utility operating in the U.S. and Canada, with a series of grid modernization initiatives aimed at...View engagement
- 03Assisted major UK utility following one of the largest European utility mergersCRA supported a major utility as it integrated its UK businesses following one of the largest European utility mergers in recent years. The team helped run...View engagement