The people who plan, value, and operate the distribution grid.
IA software is used by the planning engineers, DSM program managers, grid operations teams, and utility executives who make the decisions that determine how the electric grid evolves. Our tools are built around the real workflows those people follow — not idealized workflows that require them to change how they work to fit the software.
IA serves teams across the utility planning and operations organization
Distribution planning is not a single role. It spans long-range capital planning, IDP regulatory work, DSM program design, interconnection review, and real-time grid operations. IA’s products address each of these functions — and are designed to connect them.
Distribution planners and forecasting engineers
The core LoadSEER user. Distribution planners use LoadSEER to build feeder and substation load forecasts, run EV and DER adoption scenarios, identify capacity constraints, and produce the locational forecasts that drive capital investment decisions. LoadSEER is designed to fit into the annual planning cycle — not replace it.
DSM program managers and resource planners
DSMore users who design, evaluate, and defend energy efficiency and demand response portfolios. Resource planners use DSMore’s hourly, location-specific avoided cost analysis to identify where DSM programs create the most grid value — and to produce the benefit-cost analysis that regulatory filings require. DSMore is accepted by utility commissions in more than 30 states.
Distribution operations engineers and DERMS teams
Grid operations teams responsible for managing DER, demand response programs, and distribution automation use IDROP to optimize the real-time dispatch of controllable assets. IDROP integrates with existing ADMS and DERMS platforms via API — providing the optimization intelligence layer that static dispatch rules cannot.
Regulatory affairs and IDP teams
Integrated distribution planning filings require transparent, auditable, multi-scenario load forecasts and DSM cost-effectiveness analysis. IA’s tools produce the documentation that supports regulatory submissions in California, New York, Hawaii, Illinois, and other jurisdictions with active IDP requirements.
Key accounts and interconnection teams
Utilities managing large interconnection queues — data centers, EV fleets, distributed solar — use LoadSEER’s capacity headroom reporting and LoadSEER Studio’s bulk processing to evaluate requests against real grid capacity. Knowing where capacity exists before interconnection requests arrive changes the conversation with large customers.
Executives and financial planning teams
Utility executives and financial planners use IA analytics outputs to justify capital programs, demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of DER investment to boards and regulators, and build the quantitative case for integrated resource plan positions. IA’s tools produce outputs in the language executives need — NPV, benefit-cost ratios, deferred capital, and scenario-bounded uncertainty.
We serve utilities of every structure and size
Grid transformation challenges are not unique to large investor-owned utilities. Municipal utilities, cooperatives, and state agencies face the same EV adoption, DER integration, and load growth complexity — often with smaller planning teams and fewer analytical resources. IA’s products are deployed across the full range of utility structures.
Investor-owned utilities
Major IOUs use LoadSEER Enterprise for deep, longitudinal distribution planning with full SCADA and GIS integration. DSMore supports regulatory cost-effectiveness filings in multiple jurisdictions simultaneously. IA is deployed at some of the largest IOUs in the country — PG&E, Xcel Energy, Dominion, Eversource, and others.
Municipal utilities and public power
Municipal utilities and public power organizations use LoadSEER to bring the same spatial forecasting rigor to their distribution planning that large IOUs apply — without the enterprise IT requirements. LoadSEER Studio is particularly suited to municipal utilities that need planning capability quickly without a long integration project.
Cooperatives
Electric cooperatives managing high-growth service territories — rural EV adoption, agricultural electrification, distributed solar — use IA tools to understand where load growth is concentrating and where infrastructure investment is actually needed versus where it can be deferred.
State agencies and regulators
State energy agencies and public utility commissions use DSMore for independent cost-effectiveness analysis of utility DSM programs — providing a consistent, auditable analytical framework for program approval and portfolio evaluation across multiple utilities in a single state.
What our customers have in common
IA’s customers are utilities that have moved past the question of whether the grid is changing and are working on the harder question of how to manage that change cost-effectively. They share a common challenge: making investment decisions under genuine uncertainty, with regulators and ratepayers holding them accountable for both the cost of acting and the cost of not acting.
Our tools don’t remove that uncertainty — but they let utilities bound it, quantify it, and make defensible decisions within it. That’s what distribution planners, DSM program managers, and grid operations teams actually need from their analytics software.
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