Description of need

US utilities have gigawatts of project requests in the queue, both on the demand and on the generation side.

At National Grid, the longest step in the process is if the project application trigger a transmission study. This would go to ISO’s study queue. National Grid performs it, but it is only performed when it reaches its spot in the ISO New England queue.There are a lot of megawatts that will be stuck behind the ISO transmission studies. (Note: the reason this takes time is not necessarily the study itself, but the fact that you need to wait for ISO NE: “the time is right”. )

Problem severity (1-10)

8

Who has this need

  • DER project developers
  • Distribution utilities

Total addressable market (TAM)

Unknown

Solutions today, and their shortcomings

Potentially relevant capabilities

Reference Network Model

References

2024-05-06 Lisa Salmore (National Grid)