DER Portfolio Strategy, Planning & Advisory

Assess DER potential and create actionable roadmaps. DER Portfolio Strategy, Planning & Advisory justifies and demonstrates the full opportunity of DERs to enable regulatory and investment readiness—helping utilities and solution providers align stakeholders and define actionable paths to integrate customer and grid value for products, pilots, programs, and resources that meet policy and organizational objectives.

Quantify potential

Determine where and how DERs and flexible loads deliver the greatest value to the grid. We conduct detailed assessments across time, geography, and customer segments to identify how DERs contribute to reliability, resilience, and equity outcomes.

Leverage customer insights

Use deep customer research to understand how residential and business customers are shifting behaviors around building electrification, solar, battery storage, and other utility DER program offerings. These insights provide actionable details that strengthen program design and inform planning. They also support potential assessments for load flexibility and help identify high-value opportunities.

Align the business case and roadmap

Prioritize DER investments and translate insights into coordinated strategies centered around customer needs. We facilitate collaboration among utilities, regulators, and service providers to design programs informed by deep customer research, sentiment, and adoption experience. Our experts help make the business case for strategic and tactical efforts, aligning organizational structures and stakeholder perspectives to support effective DER planning.

Integrated planning

Regulatory readiness

Customer value

Insights

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Build your DER roadmap.

Connect with our team today to see how DER Portfolio Strategy, Planning & Advisory can help you assess DER potential, incorporate best practices, and define actionable paths to capture customer and grid value.