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Solutions Built for Smarter Transmission Planning

Simplify workflows, ensure FERC compliance, and optimize interconnection processes with tools built for utilities, RTOs, and ISOs.

Simplify Transmission Planning with a Collaborative Platform

The Problem

Transmission planning teams face mounting pressure to balance operational efficiency, long-term planning, and regulatory compliance. However, traditional tools fall short, leaving teams juggling complex datasets, siloed workflows, and a lack of clarity for stakeholders. These inefficiencies can lead to costly delays and missed opportunities for optimization.

The Solution

CartoVista’s platform transforms how transmission planning is done, turning complexity into clarity with map-based tools designed to streamline workflows, empower collaboration, and enhance decision-making.

  • Seamless Data Integration

    Drag and drop data from CSV, Excel or ESRI Shapefiles directly into the platform. Join electrical engineering and geospatial data to visualize interconnection opportunities, capacity constraints, and future demand.

  • Advanced Visualization Tools

    Easily configure map layers and interactive elements to tailor visualizations to your needs. Publish public-facing maps as needed to boost transparency and share critical insights with external stakeholders, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

  • Contingency Analysis with Time-Based Insights

    Visualize contingency scenarios with precision using thematic maps to assess the impact of bus or line failures on grid stability and capacity, enabling proactive planning and risk mitigation. Generate time-sensitive heatmaps, such as Local Marginal Pricing (LMP) maps, to analyze data trends over specific periods. Dive deeper into peak/off-peak pricing, congestion metrics, and statistical deviations, providing a clear foundation for precise market analysis and operational decision-making.

  • Collaborative Story Maps

    Consolidate technical details, documentation, and critical resources into a single, user-friendly interface. Simplify communication with non-technical stakeholders by making complex data accessible and visually compelling.

  • Enhanced Security and Automations

    Maintain strict control over sensitive information with user-specific permissions for maps and datasets, ensuring only authorized access. Streamline workflows and reduce manual effort by automating processes with the CartoVista REST API, compatible with popular programming languages like Python.

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Turn FERC Order 2023 Compliance into a Strategic Advantage

The Problem

Navigating FERC Order 2023 compliance can be daunting, with stringent transparency requirements, high volumes of interconnection requests, and significant penalties for non-compliance. For many utilities, outdated systems and inefficient processes hinder their ability to deliver clear, actionable insights to stakeholders. 

The Solution

CartoVista’s FERC-compliant heatmaps are purpose-built to simplify regulatory compliance, ensuring timely, accurate reporting while enhancing transparency and trust with stakeholders. 

  • Visualize Interconnection Capacity

    • Generate professional heatmaps that go beyond simple point-based maps, using advanced interpolated visualizations to provide a clearer and more detailed view of interconnection capacity and constraints.
    • Dynamically filter by KV level, scenario, and year to uncover bottlenecks and capacity stress points, enabling faster, data-driven decisions that basic maps and tools cannot achieve.

  • Simulate Scenarios with Confidence

    • Input MW injection scenarios and analyze their impact on grid congestion and available capacity.
    • Compare before-and-after scenarios to assess potential bottlenecks and identify constraints.

  • Enhance Stakeholder Communication

    • Overlay critical data, such as interconnection queue details, to deliver transparency on project statuses, including fuel types, operational dates, and net capacities, in a visually clear and accessible format.
    • Strengthen stakeholder engagement with branded heatmaps that align with your utility's identity, projecting professionalism and fostering trust in your planning and decision-making processes.

  • Ease of Update and Automation

    • Quickly create and update maps using the POI Analysis Module with intuitive drag-and-drop functionality, allowing teams to seamlessly integrate new data as cluster studies evolve.
    • Automate updates and workflows using the CartoVista REST API, ensuring your maps consistently reflect the latest cluster study results and other critical data, reducing manual effort and maintaining accuracy.
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Unlock the Potential of POI Analysis

The Problem

Point of Interconnection (POI) analysis is a cornerstone of the interconnection process, yet it often involves labor-intensive workflows, siloed tools, and limited insights into grid constraints. This lack of efficiency and clarity can slow communications and create unnecessary roadblocks for stakeholders.

The Solution

CartoVista’s POI Analysis Module provides transmission planners with intuitive, high-performance tools to streamline the interconnection process, reduce manual effort, and deliver actionable insights. This module also enables the configuration of public-facing FERC Order 2023-compliant heatmaps, ensuring transparency, regulatory compliance, and effective stakeholder communication. 

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  • Seamless Integration with Industry Tools

    • Import POI and transfer analysis data from PowerGEM, PSS/E, PowerWorld, and other electrical engineering software.
    • Use CSV imports to link tabular data with transmission line identifiers for easy analysis.

  • Dynamic Heatmap Creation

    • Generate heatmaps in minutes to identify high-congestion areas and visualize underutilized capacity.
    • Tailor maps for internal analysis or stakeholder presentations.

  • Scenario Simulation and Constraint Analysis

    • Model MW injection points and assess their impact on grid constraints at the transmission line level.
    • View before-and-after scenarios to uncover actionable solutions.

  • Create Public facing FERC Order Heatmaps

    • Easily publish your cluster study results in a simplified, public-facing format directly from the module, providing transparency and ensuring compliance with FERC Order 2023 requirements.
    • Work with our professional services team to design a user-friendly interface tailored to your audience, complete with custom disclaimers, logos, and onboarding to enhance the user experience and reflect your organization’s branding.

  • Contextual Layers for Strategic Planning

    • Overlay critical layers such as renewable project suitability, environmental constraints, land ownership, and market data like local marginal pricing (LMP) to gain a complete view of renewable development potential and grid dynamics.
    • Enhance planning accuracy by integrating comprehensive, data-driven spatial insights tailored to your organization’s unique needs, enabling more strategic and informed decision-making.

Built for Transmission Planners, Trusted by Industry Leaders

The Problem

Utilities, RTOs, and ISOs are under increasing pressure to meet FERC deadlines, manage growing interconnection requests, and maintain operational efficiency—all while ensuring transparency and avoiding penalties. Finding a reliable, scalable solution is critical to success.

The Solution

CartoVista provides a trusted, proven platform tailored to meet the needs of the energy sector, delivering advanced tools, seamless integrations, and exceptional support. 

Save Time

Integrate data via drag and drop, automate workflows, reduce manual effort, and accelerate project timelines.

Enhance Accuracy

Offer precise, interactive tools that eliminate guesswork and improve data clarity.

Build Trust

Deliver professional-quality maps and reports that foster transparency among stakeholders

Ensure Compliance

Simplify regulatory adherence with tools designed specifically for FERC Order 2023 requirements.

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