CRA’s Energy Practice supports ISOs and RTOs in evaluating the transmission and interconnection needs of a rapidly changing power system. Growing electricity demand, large-load interconnections, generation additions and retirements, and an evolving resource mix are creating new challenges for regional and interregional planning.
We combine power-system engineering, market modeling, economic analysis, and regulatory expertise to evaluate system needs, alternative infrastructure solutions, and their costs and benefits. Our teams can address both the technical performance of the transmission system and the economic and market implications of investment decisions.
CRA also helps clients evaluate and improve the planning and interconnection frameworks used to identify, prioritize, and allocate the costs of transmission investments.
Our services include:
- Regional and interregional transmission planning
- Generator and large-load interconnection analysis
- Power-flow and system-impact analysis
- Economic transmission planning
- Transmission needs and alternatives assessment
- Production-cost and market modeling
- Transmission cost-benefit analysis
- Cost allocation and beneficiary analysis
- Planning and interconnection process design
- Scenario and sensitivity analysis
- Independent review and validation
Please contact energypractice@crai.com for more information.
