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.

Trimark Consulting Services
Preliminary Engineering
Operational Analysis

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

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!
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
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.

Over the last 20 years, we’ve helped over 900 resources navigate CAISO’s NRI. With owners building more utility-scale renewable generation nationwide they’re now asking Trimark to help them comply with PPA and interconnection requirements in ERCOT, MISO, ISO New England, NYSERDA – really anywhere that complex agreements require expert advice.

Jennifer Strand

TCS Manager

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

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

PV plant operators want a real time SCADA interface that shows exactly what their inverters are producing and what’s down. That’s actionable information they need to fix what’s broken, produce more power, and improve profits.

Rob Barrington

Senior Systems Integrator III

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

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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.