Distribution Construction Work Plans

Short-term distribution system planning provides your utility with specific system improvement projects and construction budgets over the next one to four years. Short-term distribution system plans create an electric service delivery strategy that focuses on improving customer service and maximizing benefits in electric plant investments, automation, and other efficiency tools. Besides traditional considerations, Power System Engineering, Inc. (PSE) specialists can address other issues that impact system plans such as alternate protection schemes, distribution automation, load management, distributed generation, outage management systems, and other technologies.

PSE's approach to short-term distribution system planning can provide your utility with a number of valuable benefits:

• An external look at your distribution system by a team of professionals to develop the most reliable and economical solutions.

• Refinement of planning criteria to align with today’s expectations for reliability and cost effectiveness, while also providing guidelines for operational practices.

• Consideration of non-traditional solutions and available technologies to address system needs.

• Recommendations for leveraging systems such as SCADA, AMR, GIS, OMS, CIS, and databases.

• Prioritization of projects that go beyond substations, poles, and wires.

• Improved project justification.