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Energy Strategy & Planning

Decarbonization

Many cities, states, businesses, and consumers have set ambitious deep decarbonization goals in electricity and other energy-intensive economic sectors. We help our clients to craft robust policies and programs that cost-effectively achieve their sustainability goals.

Distributed Energy Resources

Due to rapidly developing renewable and distributed energy resources (DERs), customers are both consumers to power producers. This has significant implications for our electricity system, for utilities that must planning and invest in their distribution systems, and for grid operators who must ensure reliable electricity service for all.

Electrification

Electrification of transportation and heating introduces the possibility of electric utilities playing a rapidly increasing and central role in the future energy system. With widespread electrification, electric utilities could replace the roles of fossil fuel companies in providing energy to the heating and transportation sectors.

Energy Storage

Energy storage will be transformative to the power industry. Thus, the policies and market features that drive new opportunities for storage will be examined over the next few years. Utilities, investors, technology firms, project developers, system operators, and regulators rely on our team of experts to tackle their most challenging storage issues.

Load Flexibility

The potential for load flexibility to facilitate the transition to a decarbonized power system is remarkable and currently overlooked. Historically, conventional demand response has provided significant value through peak demand reductions. However, system needs are evolving. Load flexibility – the real-time control of electricity usage to provide a range of grid services around the clock – can play a key role in addressing these new challenges.

Resource Planning & Investment

Utilities and policymakers face unprecedented challenges in efficiently and effectively planning the future electricity system. System planners are rethinking nearly every aspect of their integrated resource planning processes to meet clean energy goals, integrate non-traditional resources, and meet emerging reliability challenges.

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