Utility Solutions
Interconnection ManagementAutomate, streamline, and scale your distributed generation and utility-scale interconnection processes
Take control of your interconnection processes with software purpose-built for electric utilities. Our industry-leading end-to-end solution will modernize your interconnection processes—everything from residential DG to utility-scale generator interconnection, to large commercial loads such as data centers, factories and industrial plants.
Delight customers and stakeholders by reducing interconnection backlogs. Streamline repetitive tasks and workflows to save staff time and effort. Future-proof your program with software that easily adapts to changing needs.
Modernizing your interconnection program is a journey. Whether you are digitizing paper forms, standardizing your process, or automating it with integrations into other systems, our flexible no-code tools are here to grow with you.
Distributed Generation Interconnection
Automate Manual Interconnection Processes
Distributed generation (DG) interconnection applications are surging at many utilities due to growing customer demand for solar technology. Many utility interconnection teams rely on disparate systems and manual processes (such as spreadsheets and email) that do not scale with DER adoption. These error-prone processes lead to inefficiencies, frustrated customers, strained installer relationships, and a growing project backlog. A dedicated interconnection workflow automation solution enables utilities to streamline and scale their interconnection processes efficiently.
- Growing volumes straining homegrown solutions—DG interconnection applications are overwhelming utility staff with manual work across disparate tools
- Integration pains—integrating and synchronizing data across disparate systems is time consuming, tedious and error-prone
- Reporting and Visibility—reporting is burdensome, transparency is impossible to provide on demand without automation
- Right-sizing PV systems growing more challenging—application volume and approved PV battery technology options are proliferating, complicating interconnection processes
Utility-Scale Interconnection
Simplify Complex Utility-Scale Interconnection
As global demand for renewable energy and new industrial and manufacturing facilities grow, utilities are facing a dramatic increase in bulk-power system interconnection requests for new generators and serving large loads. These utility-scale interconnection requests are subject to state and federal regulations and procedural requirements involving many stakeholders. This makes them complex and resource intensive to manage. Learn how flexible, proven, no-code workflow automation software can help utilities simplify and streamline utility-scale interconnection and reduce queue processing time.
- Complicated applications—Validating and transcribing data from application forms is time consuming and error prone
- Application backlog—Applications can take multiple years due to complex studies, making tracking of communications and submitted data difficult
- Significant financial risk—Ineffective tools can cause expensive delays, as FERC and state regulations include strict deadlines and fines
- Complex study procedures—Changes in interconnection study approaches (e.g. cluster studies and multiple engineering teams involved with large load planning and analysis) create additional strain on existing processes
Modernize your DG and Utility-Scale interconnection portal and workflows with PowerClerk®—The utility industry’s leading program management software for DERs and beyond
- Design Workflows: Easily visualize, configure, modify and test workflows, including automations that drive status changes and other actions
- Automate Communications: Keep applicants and stakeholders informed of key status changes and approaching deadlines via email or custom views
- Configure Forms: Create, modify and test web forms with drag-and-drop elements publishable on any webpage for a cohesive user experience
- Streamline Reporting: Visualize operational workflow data, schedule detailed reports, and connect this data with tools like Power BI and Excel
- Consolidate Tasks: Design templates that automatically generate documents, with built-in eSignature and ePayment capabilities
- Validate and Integrate Data: Connect with other IT systems – CIS, GIS, and more – ensuring data consistency
- Manage Interconnection Data: Create and collect structured, uniform data for downstream processes, including load forecasting, grid planning, and operations
- Automate Hand-offs and Regulatory Reporting: Form submissions get where they need to go without missing a beat or having to juggle multiple systems. Submit applications and reports to regulators and partners automatically
Case Studies
Rappahannock Electric Cooperative streamlines solar program
Rappahannock Electric Cooperative’s (REC) Energy Solutions and Clean Energy team struggled with high solar support call volumes and a labor-intensive interconnection process. To improve their residential and commercial solar programs, REC sought to automate customer education and reduce the amount of time spent on manual processes and reporting.
APS utilizes PowerClerk® to enable efficient, flexible FERC generator interconnection management
Arizona Public Service’s FERC Interconnection team was faced with growing application volume, which strained legacy processes and team bandwidth. Learn how implementing PowerClerk® saved the team time and effort. Check out the case study to learn how digitalizing their FERC interconnection process reduced application processing time from weeks to days.
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