Accelerate Interconnection

Automate interconnection studies to clear queue backlogs, restore predictable study timelines, and help utilities maintain grid reliability and resource adequacy. 

500+

GW

Contracted by ISOs to automate interconnection processes

200×

UP TO

Reduction in engineering analysis time

2000+

GENERATION AND STORAGE

Projects modeled

Who We Serve

C-Suite & Leadership

1

Transmission Planning / System Planning Engineers

2

Engineering Leadership

3

Resource Planning

4

C-Suite & Leadership

The interconnection queue is a regulatory and reliability exposure. When study cycle times stretch from weeks to years, the generation capacity your IRP promises gets delayed, your resource adequacy case gets harder to defend, and the PUC starts asking questions you don’t want to answer. SUGAR™ has been deployed by some of the largest grid operators in the country to clear queue backlogs at a scale legacy software cannot achieve. 

  • Deploy the same interconnection study automation MISO and SPP have already put to work at scale. 
  • Return your interconnectionstudy cycles to predictable timelines while unlocking stalled capacity your grid needs for future resource adequacy. 
  • Extend the same engine to other steady-state grid planning activities including extreme event analysis, transmission expansion planning, policy studies, and base case creation. 
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Transmission Planning / System Planning Engineers

The power flow solving algorithms your team relies on were designed for a serial queue: one project at a time. SUGAR™ was built from the ground up to handle the complexity of today’s queue, where thousands of applications interact with each other across the same network simultaneously. 

  • Automate generator and large load interconnection studies on a single platform, purpose-built for today’s queue volume rather than adapted from legacy tools. 
  • Compress power flow model development from weeks to hours, with constraint identification, mitigation, and network upgrade selection built into the same workflow. 
  • Integrate directly into existing transmission and interconnection planning workflows with support for standard data formats and customizable study processes. 
  • Optimize your study process and evaluate the impact of changes quickly and quantitatively. 
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Engineering Leadership

By leveraging powerful circuit simulation methods developed to study billion-transistor electronic systems, SUGAR™ offers industry-leading convergence robustness for power grid analysis. It is purpose-built automation grounded in peer-reviewed electrical engineering research.  

  • Run on an engine purpose-built to solve the computational challenges of today’s grid, producing accurate results at a speed and scale conventional power flow software cannot match. 
  • Automate the most time-consuming steps of the interconnection study process, from model development to constraint identification and network upgrade selection, on a single platform. 
  • Eliminate the manual root cause investigation of non-convergence that consumes your most experienced engineers. 
  • Scale replicable, repeatable study processes across every cluster, reducing error and variability while freeing engineers for higher-caliber decision making.  
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Resource Planning

Your IRP commitments depend on generation getting built on time. Every project stalled in your interconnection queue is a gap between what you’ve promised the PUC and what comes online when. SUGAR™ gives your resource planning team line-of-sight into interconnection timelines by helping your transmission planning colleagues clear the queue faster, so your capacity planning assumptions have ground under them. 

  • Faster queue clearance means more predictable in-service dates for the generation your IRP depends on.
  • Rely on study outputs that are publicly benchmarked and auditable, so interconnection assumptions in your IRP can be defended to regulators. 
  • Cost allocation and cost estimate outputs from SUGAR™ studies give resource planners earlier visibility into interconnection costs forinternally-developed generation projects. 
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How It Works

Your interconnection queue backlog is delaying the generation and load needed to maintain grid reliability. Solar, storage, wind, gas, nuclear, data centers, and industrial load are all filing at once, and the transmission planning software your team relies on wasn’t built for this volume. Transmission providers that switched to purpose-built interconnection study automation have already cleared more than 10% of the nation’s interconnection backlog. 

Automate Interconnection Studies Before Your Backlog Becomes a Reliability Problem

Speed up interconnection with end-to-end study automation that unlocks stalled capacity, scales to your full queue volume, and returns predictable study cycle times your planning teams can actually build around. 

Your Advantage

  • Expedite study processes to move generation through the queue faster, bringing new capacity online sooner and easing resource adequacy concerns.
  • Enable process optimization, with the ability to evaluate impacts of changes quickly and quantitatively. 
  • Reduce opportunities for error and variability, with replicable and transparent processes for every cluster. 

Technology Built to Scale With The Complexity of Today's Queue

Power grid analysis and semiconductor chip design share more than most engineers expect. The circuit simulation methods developed to model billion-transistor chips turn out to be exactly what a high-volume interconnection queue needs: speed, robustness, and the ability to find solutions in scenarios that defeat conventional solvers. 

Your Advantage

  • Run end-to-end studies with an engine built for the computational challenges of today’s grid. 
  • Collaborate with our team of interconnection experts to build a bespoke solution for your unique study process.  
  • Produce results your team can audit, explain, and defend, with full transparency into how every output was derived. 

Leverage a Proven And Market-Ready Solution

Put interconnection study automation to work that has already delivered at scale. SUGAR™ has processed the largest and most complex interconnection clusters in RTO history, with publicly benchmarked results that reproduced a nearly two-year manual study in approximately 10 days.  

Your Advantage

  • Achieve network upgrade cost estimates within 1% of the manual process, so speed and accuracy are not a tradeoff.  
  • Solve your most complex clusters, including load interconnection queues, where regulatory scrutiny is escalating. 
  • Proven at scale, SUGAR has already cleared more than 10% of the nation’s interconnection backlog, with more contracted study cycles already in the pipeline. 

Future-Proof Your Interconnection Study Process With Continuous Innovation

Enverus has invested over $1 billion in its technology platform and is continuously expanding its interconnection capabilities to meet the demands of an accelerating energy transition. 

Your Advantage

  • Tap into a development roadmap shaped by the hardest problems utilities are facing today. 
  • Grow with a platform that has never stopped investing in what comes next for interconnection. 
  • Enverus is trusted by 300+ utilities for the data, expertise, and platform stability to support their most critical grid decisions. 

Talk to an interconnection expert

Clear your queue backlog, return to predictable study cycle times, and get the generation your grid needs online faster. 

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