Capital decisions on the distribution grid carry decades of consequence. IA analytics helps you make them with confidence.
Utility executives and financial planning teams are accountable for both the cost of investing and the cost of not investing — while managing genuine uncertainty about where load will grow, how fast DER will penetrate, and what regulators will require. IA's analytics don't remove that uncertainty, but they let you bound it, quantify it, and make defensible decisions within it.
Get in touchThe questions IA analytics helps you answer
How do we right-size capital investment?
Over-building infrastructure in areas where load growth is slower than expected creates stranded assets. Under-building in high-growth areas creates reactive, expensive upgrades. Feeder-level forecasting identifies which is which.
How do we justify DER programs to the board?
DER investments require quantified ROI analysis — documented avoided infrastructure costs, benefit-cost ratios, and risk-adjusted NPV — not engineering judgment alone.
How do we demonstrate IDP compliance?
Regulators are scrutinizing how utilities evaluate non-wires alternatives. Documented, auditable analytical methodology is increasingly a prerequisite for capital program approval.
How do we plan across multiple futures?
Single-point forecasts are inadequate for 20-year capital planning. Scenario-based analysis that bounds the range of plausible futures gives executives the risk context to make confident investment decisions.
Tools designed for your challenges
IA’s analytics suite addresses the full planning cycle — from long-range load forecasting through DSM program valuation to real-time DER dispatch optimization.
LoadSEER
Multi-scenario geospatial load forecasting that identifies which capital investments are justified under any plausible future — and which can be deferred.
DSMore
NPV and benefit-cost analysis for DSM and DER programs — produces the quantified documentation that supports regulatory approval and board-level investment decisions.
LoadSEER Studio
Rapid scenario analysis for executive briefings — from a service territory area to a capacity plan in a single session.