The Interconnection Life Cycle Management (ILCM) application is a proven solution that gives our clients the ability to guide their customers and staff through the tasks, activities, and analysis processes necessary to manage, transact and report on grid interconnection requests.
ILCM supports program interactions from multiple stakeholders throughout the interconnection lifecycle from application intake to permission to operate and can be configured to adapt to specific company processes.
ILCM meets the needs of both interconnection customers and internal reviewers, engineers, and corporate staff. ILCM and other GridUnity applications including Hosting Capacity Analysis, Grid Model Management and Automated Engineering Analysis operate on the cloud-based GridUnity Platform.
Interconnection Life Cycle Management Features
Interconnection Portal
Provides immediate applicant feedback
Guides applicants and RTO through application review process
Tracks deposits & refunds
Cluster Study
Provides notifications to applicant and RTO
Tracks deadlines, documents & progress
Automates ISA when all requirements have been met
Generation Construction
Tracks interconnection after ISA signature
Tracks engineering decisions, testing, and commissioning through to PTO
GridUnity Platform Features
The GridUnity platform is a cloud-based software architecture designed to facilitate the evolving balance between standardization, automation, and customization across the full life cycle of interconnection requests. It is designed to enable Regional Transmission Organizations (RTO), Independent System Operators, and non-RTO/ISO affiliated Transmission Operators to manage the generation interconnection process.
Reliability
Available 24/7/365
Throttling ensures accessibility at busy times
Robust and scalable
Security
NIST 800-171 and SOC2 compliant
Hosted on AWS with geographic redundancy
Role-based security and access
Integrations
Back-office systems
Third party applications (eSignature/ePayment)
Power solver agnostic
Performance
Tracks applications
Meets milestones
Records activities
Completes decision points
Automation
Automates intake, completeness review, eSignature, payment tracking, study agreement creation
Analytics
Advanced analytics across time series
Machine learning enablement
Contextual visualization
About GridUnity
Since its inception in 2010, GridUnity has recognized the importance of transmission and distribution planners’ need for interdisciplinary alignment and data accuracy when making decisions concerning the increasing complexity of the grid.
The GridUnity cloud-based software platform is designed to provide transmission and distribution organizations the ability to create the cross functional processes and intuitive user interfaces required to support stakeholder collaboration and decision making. The platform enables companies to establish a consistent set of processes and user experiences while meeting each jurisdiction’s unique policy requirements.
Modules available on the platform include Interconnection Life Cycle Management (ILCM), Hosting Capacity Analysis (HCA), Grid Model Management (GMM), and Automated Engineering Analysis.
The GridUnity platform is used across 22 states, and its use is expanding.
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