In September 2022, a large Eastern investor-owned utility had a major storm that affected a significant portion of its service territory. The utility intends to evaluate the performance of its recently implemented Outage Management System (OMS) and the corresponding operations processes during the storm to identify and prioritize measurable candidate improvements. Utilicast will provide consulting services to support the utility’s OMS storm evaluation and improvement plan efforts to identify and prioritize measurable candidate improvements.
Utilicast will provide consulting services, project leadership, and subject matter expertise to facilitate and ensure the successful implementation of a Central mid-size regulated electric utility’s Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) upgrade to include OMS, SOM, and Advanced Applications. Utilicast’s services will include technical leadership, SME support for key project components, functional application design, configuration and integration coordination, testing, and advisory services through deployment and stabilization.
Utilicast will conduct a CAISO Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) project scoping, future state, capability gap assessment, and vendor RFP/selection criteria for a large Pacific irrigation district.
As a part of an Eastern mid-size electric utility’s Grid Modernization program, it will deploy a Distribution Management System (DMS) and Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS). To prepare for these initiatives and finalize the Statement of Work (SOW) with their selected software vendor, the utility will be revisiting the Grid Modernization roadmap and system requirements. This includes Distribution Management System (DMS)/Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) use cases and dependencies, along with prioritization/review of requirements to support the use cases. Utilicast shall provide consulting services to support the utility’s roadmap and requirements review for the DMS/DERMS.
Utilicast will provide ADMS SME Support for Grid Technologies for a large Western Utilities Enterprise.
Utilicast will provide the largest independent electricity company with a subject matter expert who will provide OSI Monarch, OSI Monarch Upgrade, and general TMS SCADA expertise to assist with the hardware and software upgrade of ITC, OSI Monarch system.
A leading International mining company acquired Utilicast to evaluate current electric operations and provide recommendations, provide Market training, and evaluate market opportunities.
The largest electric utility in the state of Oklahoma is pursuing a second phase (Phase 2) of the CADS platform implementation project. As part of the delivery of this project, project management services are required to manage project scope, timeline, and risks, ensure consistency and provide regular tracking and communication with project stakeholders outlined in the Work Requirements section of this scope of work. Utilicast shall provide project management consulting services to execute the activities and develop the deliverables associated with the CADS Platform Phase 2 Implementation project as outlined in this scope of work. This scope of work addresses the project management functions only and does not cover non-project management components of design, build, test or deploy functions.
October 31, 2022
Distribution
Utilicast has been hired to help manage Generation Interconnection stakeholders. Utilicast will plan, coordinate, and oversee Resource Interconnection study cycles. Utilicast will assemble project teams, assign responsibilities, identify resources, and develop schedules for timely completion of study cycle, and also work with team members to develop and implement process efficiencies and ensure process compliance with the Midwest System Operator Tariff and Business Practices Manual #015 Generation Interconnection.
Utilicast will perform a gap assessment of Control Room Technology to identify Control Room Technology baseline improvements for internal and external customers. We will evaluate resiliency of reliability tools for Balancing Area Authority and Reliability Coordinator purposes.
