Services and Solutions

Intelligent Grid Solutions

Helping architect, innovate and integrate digital assets and data

TRC helps our clients design, build, operate and maintain our country's critical assets and infrastructure across several end markets, including telecommunications, power and utilities, energy and industrial, transportation, real estate, water and government.

With a drive to constantly innovate, TRC helps clients integrate their digital assets and data into their existing process, and operations to prolong the life, improve the safety, and enhance the return on their assets.

Looking for effective intelligent grid solutions?

Let’s tackle challenges together.

Energy Providers are Experiencing Major Digital Disruption

With the rise of smart meters, sensors, solar panels, EVs and battery storage, energy providers are tasked with managing a bidirectional grid – not just the power, but also the data.

TRC delivers operational technology (OT) services, grid modernization and IT/OT solutions , GIS-technology expertise, and managed services and solutions to best address our client needs. We are broad in our capabilities but also highly specialized to fit the needs of each individual client. Our domains include smart metering, distributed energy resource management, control centers/systems, GIS, outage management, grid modernization and next generation analytics.

Our extensive experience with distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS) and AMI-related strategy, combined with our strength in grid modernization and meter data management design enable us to offer services that can solve any potential business challenge. TRC understands the utility industry and the evolving technologies necessary to address current and future issues that a utility will face in the digital space. By leveraging advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, utilities can make better decisions, predict failures and outages and increase operational efficiency.

TRC also offers insights into all areas of GIS integrations, implementations and complex conversions for data integration, management and upgrades to ESRI systems. We partner with ESRI as experts in the Utility Network, leading the industry with our ability to provide solutions for complex integration issues.

What's Driving Digital Disruption for Energy Providers?

Digital disruptions energy providers are facing can be summarized into six major categories.

Utilities are experiencing continued retirements and loss of highly experienced talent, plus the skill sets needed at utilities are rapidly changing, creating more competition to hire tech-savvy employees.
The addition of renewable energy and distributed energy resources to the grid creates the need for bidirectional energy flow and to evolve traditional engineering and planning practices.
The rise of the prosumer is really happening as more customers generate their own power from distributed energy resources. Today’s electric grid is blurring the lines between power generation and consumption.
The younger populations have higher power and digital expectations from their utilities, They want to be able to quickly navigate their energy usage. Smart meters are playing a role in improving that customer experience.
With increasingly unpredictable weather and environmental factors, there is a continued need to harden assets and make them more resilient. Electrification of vehicles is also coming online at scale, requiring upgrades.
With a push for net zero by many utilities, states, companies, and regulators there is pressure to deliver. Navigating the new IIJA grants and incentives will also be important for meeting these demands.

Aging and Changing Workforce Needs

Utilities are experiencing continued retirements and loss of highly experienced talent, plus the skill sets needed at utilities are rapidly changing, creating more competition to hire tech-savvy employees.

Disrupting the Traditional Utility Model

TRC helps utilities navigate as technology advances and data accumulation increases. By leveraging advanced analytics and artificial intelligence, utilities can make better decisions, predict failures and outages and increase operational efficiency.

Digital Grid Solutions

Determine the Path for DER Integration

TRC’s approach to creating a DER framework, strategy and roadmap includes a rapid current state assessment (people, processes and technology) to set the baseline. Our team develops a business case that assesses the costs and potential benefits of the execution of specific use cases or a full rollout strategy.

Distributed Energy Resources

Deep Industry Expertise in OT and Telecommunications

Our approach is simple: we support the experts you have on your team with highly specialized resources, and offer complete operational support with a comprehensive approach that leaves no issue without a solution.

Operational Technologies

The Future of GIS

Geo-location is the common sequence connecting distinct data sources and breaking down gaps. Geographic data reveals trends and provides real-time understanding to deliver impactful solutions for decision makers.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

TRC is Using Digital Technologies to Solve Business Problems

TRC is powering our best-in-class engineering and consulting services with new and innovative technology solutions, adding an additional layer of expertise, efficiency and technology that enables TRC to better serve our customers. Scroll through to see some of our services and solutions related to digital technology.