What happens at the grid edge doesn't stay at the grid edge.
Distributed solar, EV charging, battery storage, and building electrification are reshaping net load shapes in ways that transmission planning models built around utility-owned generation can't capture. LoadSEER bridges the distribution-transmission interface — providing the feeder-level load forecasts and DER scenario outputs that transmission planners and RTOs need to understand what's actually coming from the distribution system.
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How do distribution-side DERs affect transmission planning?
High DER penetration creates reverse power flow, midday net load suppression, and steep evening ramps that traditional transmission load forecasts based on historical system peaks don't reflect.
How do we coordinate distribution and transmission investment timing?
Distribution-side load growth can trigger transmission reinforcement needs that appear years earlier in a feeder-level forecast than in a system-level load forecast — creating coordination opportunities if identified early enough.
How do we model grid-edge load flexibility?
Demand response, managed EV charging, and virtual power plants at the distribution level represent load flexibility that affects transmission operations — but only if its location and magnitude are quantified at the distribution level.
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
Geospatial distribution load forecasting that produces the substation- and feeder-level outputs needed for transmission-distribution interface planning.
DSMore
Values the load flexibility that demand-side resources provide at specific distribution locations — quantifying what RTOs and transmission planners can count on.
IDROP
Operationalizes load flexibility resources in real time — providing the dispatchable demand response that transmission operations can rely on.