System Planning and Analyses

At SAIC, we help customers assess and optimize new and changing sources and demands on transmission and distribution systems to facilitate reliability and cost economics.

Systematic Approach to Problem Solving

With continually changing loads and system impacts due to growth, distributed generation and storage, and smart grid technologies, electrical utilities must consistently assess their systems and determine how to best meet demands for increased reliability and competitive rates. SAIC helps customers understand how the transmission and distribution systems function under multiple scenarios and how issues regarding constraints, stability and protection, and grid reliability will impact them in reaching their operational and organizational goals. Our systematic approach to problem solving helps customers respond to tighter regulations, environmental and security concerns, new technologies, changing consumer patterns, and North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) compliance. At SAIC, we offer effective planning and strategy development that enables our customers to nimbly respond to multiple requirements.

Comprehensive System Planning Services

SAIC takes a multi-faceted approach to transmission and distribution evaluation, combining expert technical analyses with theoretical evaluation and business acumen. Our collaborative team can help with every step in the process of developing reliable systems to meet our customers' changing needs.

  • Technical due diligence
  • Load forecasting
  • NERC compliance
  • Interconnection support
  • Conventional, renewable and distributed generation impact studies
  • System modeling and analysis
  • Reliability improvements
  • Transmission and distribution system load flow, short circuit, and stability analysis
  • Security Constrained Economic Dispatch (SCED)
  • Generation interconnection reviews for project financing
  • Renewable generation development support
  • Long-range master planning
  • Protection coordination and arc flash studies
  • Construction work plans
  • Asset management
  • Budgeting and financial planning
  • Condition assessment
  • Resource planning and project scheduling
  • Utility process analysis and re-engineering
  • Utility data analysis and management