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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.
Our services include:
Please contact energypractice@crai.com for more information.
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