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Planning / Consulting

Leverage Trimark’s decades of industry experience to make your utility-scale renewable generation, energy storage, and microgrid project a success.

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Connect. Comply. Optimize.

To help you anticipate and avoid challenges, our power-sector veterans provide the advice you need to make a smart start. We guide you through planning, design, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning, and servicing systems used to operate renewable and storage resources.

Get a Smart Start

Set an attainable path. We’ll help you consider the drivers that can impact your direction.

  • ISO / Utility Interconnection: Understand the steps, forms, and testing required to comply with NRI, PPA, and LGIA requirements.
  • Technology Planning: Establish a practical and attainable plan for SCADA, metering, networks, telemetry, MET stations, and NERC-CIP. Define functional requirements, schedules, division of responsibility, and completion criteria.
  • Bid Specifications and RFP Support: Gain expert support to develop RFPs, conduct vendor demonstrations, and negotiate contracts.
  • Green Energy Incentives: Joining a WREGIS, SGIP, GATS, or other incentive or REC program? We’ll help you understand the metering and data services required to participate.
I need help with the NRI!

Advice for Expert Solutions

Create a strong foundation for compliance, operations, and asset management.

  • Metering Approach and Schemes: Understanding advantages, and tradeoffs in metering approaches is critical. Early decisions affect equipment choices, installation plans, certification, testing, and maintenance. Our experts help you make informed decisions regarding alternatives including Scheduling Coordinator Metered Entity (SCME) vs. CAISO ME; AC- vs DC-coupled metering; peer-to-peer metering; and complex energy losses. We’ll help you understand associated requirements for hardware, SQMD, SCME audits, and more.
  • Network Planning: Establish network requirements to connect devices, instruments, and equipment with SCADA in a responsive, reliable, and secure manner.
  • Control Concepts: Define advanced control concepts and strategies to meet PPA and LGIA requirements and/or bid into the open energy markets (e.g., AGC, ADS, Ancillary Services).
Let's make a solid plan

Optimize and Mitigate

Operate at peak efficiency by avoiding known issues, mitigating trouble, and establishing key metrics:

  • Network Assessment: Troubleshoot issues and design utility-scale networks including priorities, dependencies and costs.
  • Operational Analytics: Define indices, systems, and approach to measure performance, maximize profitability, and increase uptime.
I need help with my network
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    Trimark Consulting Services

    Get a Smart Start

    Set an attainable path. We’ll help you consider the drivers that can impact your direction.

    • ISO / Utility Interconnection: Understand the steps, forms, and testing required to comply with NRI, PPA, and LGIA requirements.
    • Technology Planning: Establish a practical and attainable plan for SCADA, metering, networks, telemetry, MET stations, and NERC-CIP. Define functional requirements, schedules, division of responsibility, and completion criteria.
    • Bid Specifications and RFP Support: Gain expert support to develop RFPs, conduct vendor demonstrations, and negotiate contracts.
    • Green Energy Incentives: Joining a WREGIS, SGIP, GATS, or other incentive or REC program? We’ll help you understand the metering and data services required to participate.
    I need help with the NRI!
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    Preliminary Engineering

    Advice for Expert Solutions

    Create a strong foundation for compliance, operations, and asset management.

    • Metering Approach and Schemes: Understanding advantages, and tradeoffs in metering approaches is critical. Early decisions affect equipment choices, installation plans, certification, testing, and maintenance. Our experts help you make informed decisions regarding alternatives including Scheduling Coordinator Metered Entity (SCME) vs. CAISO ME; AC- vs DC-coupled metering; peer-to-peer metering; and complex energy losses. We’ll help you understand associated requirements for hardware, SQMD, SCME audits, and more.
    • Network Planning: Establish network requirements to connect devices, instruments, and equipment with SCADA in a responsive, reliable, and secure manner.
    • Control Concepts: Define advanced control concepts and strategies to meet PPA and LGIA requirements and/or bid into the open energy markets (e.g., AGC, ADS, Ancillary Services).
    Let's make a solid plan
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    Operational Analysis

    Optimize and Mitigate

    Operate at peak efficiency by avoiding known issues, mitigating trouble, and establishing key metrics:

    • Network Assessment: Troubleshoot issues and design utility-scale networks including priorities, dependencies and costs.
    • Operational Analytics: Define indices, systems, and approach to measure performance, maximize profitability, and increase uptime.
    I need help with my network

Expert Perspective

Why does their job matter? Trimark team members explain.

The systems we design are a small, but critical, part of power generation. We design the ‘brains’ that monitor and control each resource to be reliable and durable – in some very tough environments. I’m proud to do my part to leave a lasting benefit for society.

Vince Brashear

Director of Design and Engineering

Resource owners want to reduce risk, avoid penalties, and maximize revenue. My role is to help customers gain peace of mind and operate confidently in accomplishing their mission.

Tom Short

Vice President of Consulting and Client Relations

We help customers meet Utility and ISO control requirements. It’s exciting to bring equipment together to work as a cohesive, efficient system.

Yesenia Chavez

Associate Power Control Engineer

Network resiliency is a really big deal for power resources. My Network Engineering team applies robust reliability measures to support security, redundancy, and remote access.

Christian Stevenson

Principal Network Engineer

We start by understanding our client’s needs. One way we do this is by creating a system block diagram to show Trimark’s equipment and scope. Our customers often rely on our diagrams to make sure everyone is on the same page.

Russell Stansbury

Proposal Manager

Related Markets

If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when you’ve arrived? At Trimark we’re here to help you set attainable targets; anticipate challenges; and guide you past many common hurdles. Whether you need a plan for success or help resolving a problem, our experts smooth the way.

Developers / Independent Power Producers

Chart a course towards regulatory compliance, revenue metering, and advanced control.

Engineer, Procure Construct

Eliminate project gaps and overlaps to meet requirements, avoid change orders, and finish strong.

Utilities

Gain practical advice on metering, secure data telemetry, and control.

Scheduling Coordinator

Considering SCME? We’ll help you create an SQMD plan to meet requirements and maintain compliance.

Projects

Take a minute to see how Trimark has helped resource owners, EPCs, and ISOs change the electric grid.

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Midway II

Midway II

Dec 03, 2018

Project Type: PV rated at 30 MW Location: Near Calipatria, CA in the Imperial Valley EPC: Blattner Energy Products/Services: SCADA,…

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Nicolis and Tropico

Nicolis and Tropico

Dec 05, 2018

Project Type: PV rated at 20 MW and 14 MW Location: Tulare County, California Client: Blue Oak Energy Products/Services: SCADA…

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Mulligan

Jun 26, 2023

Project Type: 70 MW Solar AC Coupled Location: Logan County, Illinois Client/EPC: APEX Clean Energy Products/Services: Trimark SCADA including Vantage,…

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Four Hydroelectric Power Generation Resources

Four Hydroelectric Power Generation Resources

Jan 11, 2019

Project Type: Hydroelectric with 10.6 MW combined Location: Shasta County, California Client: Stoel Rives, LLP for PG&E Products and Services:…

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